A consortium including Singapore’s Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) has won a contract to build an onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Jordan, the company said in a statement.
The Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah land terminal is scheduled to be built in the port of Aqaba (southern Jordan) with a gasification capacity of 720 million standard cubic feet per day.
Gasification is the conversion of liquefied gas into its natural gaseous state for use in power generation plants. This process has become known as a flexible, fast-applying and economically feasible technology for electricity generation.
Station operation
AG&P said in a statement sent late Wednesday that the station will be completed, commissioned and delivered within 22 months, with operations set to begin by the second quarter of 2026.
“Jordan relies heavily on natural gas to meet its electricity and industrial needs, but faces challenges related to the reliability of supply,” the company said. “The new LNG terminal will provide Jordan with the flexibility to access LNG from a variety of global suppliers, ensuring a stable and secure energy source.”
The consortium, which consists of AG&P, a subsidiary called Gas Intec, and Jordan-based Issa Haddadin Construction, was awarded the contract by the state-owned Aqaba Development Corporation (Aqaba) for infrastructure.
deal
It is noteworthy that the Aqaba Development Corporation and a coalition of international companies signed an agreement last Monday to implement the development of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Port for liquefied natural gas in Aqaba at a cost of $125 million, according to the official Jordanian News Agency (Petra).
The agreement includes the establishment of a beach changeover unit, in addition to development work on the existing natural gas port.
Jordan aims through the project to maintain the option of importing liquefied natural gas used for the purposes of generating electricity and supplying industries as a strategic option in the event of a power outage of any of the current supply sources, while achieving financial savings on the costs of producing electricity.
The Aqaba Development Company established the Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah LNG Port in 2015, which includes the necessary facilities for importing LNG, in addition to renting a floating storage and exchange unit to store LNG and convert it back to a gaseous state to deal with the natural gas outage during that period, in addition to finding an alternative option to deal with any cases of interruption or insufficient supply of natural gas.
