Chinese yard Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry has delivered a major regasification module to be installed on a floating storage and regasification unit destined for operation in El Salvador as part of the Central American nation's gas-to-power project.

The module, internally known as M020, consists of four regasification units carrying a total steel weight of 423 metric tonnes.

As a subcontractor for Wartsila, Cosco cut first steel for the module at its facilities in Qidong in April last year.

The module will be installed on the Gallina liquefied natural gas carrier that is being converted at Singaporean yard Keppel.

FSRU Development, a joint venture between BW LNG, a unit of the Singapore-based gas shipping company BW Group and Invenergy Investment Company, offered a contract in 2019 to Keppel for the provision of an FSRU for developing the LNG-to-power project in El Salvador.

Inverengy holds a majority stake in Energia del Pacifico, which is the developer of the project now being built at the Port of Acajutla.

Under a take-or-pay contract signed with Energia del Pacifico, Anglo-Dutch giant Shell will supply LNG to the project, which is expected for completion by the end of this year.

The LNG-to-power project involves the construction of a 378-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant and a grid spanning 44 kilometres that will be able to meet 30% of El Salvador’s energy demand.

Boskalis is engineering and manufacturing a subsea pipeline that will transport the natural gas from the FSRU to the power plant onshore.

In December 2019, EDP completed financing for the LNG-to-power project.

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Cosco delivers key module for El Salvador LNG-to-power project