Tango FLNG Terminal

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Tango FLNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal in Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

Location

It is located offshore in the Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

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Project Details

• Owner: Excelerate Energy, Transportadora de Gas del Sur
• Location: Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
• Coordinates: -38.785984, -62.316024 (approximate)
• Capacity: .45 mtpa
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Export
• Start Year: 2019

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Argentina’s energy firm YPF and Belgian energy shipping company Exmar have signed a ten-year agreement, under which Exmar will deploy a floating LNG unit (FLNG) to the Port of Bahía Blanca in the second quarter of 2019, with an initial plan to export 500,000 tons of LNG per year to overseas markets. The FLNG unit will be redeployed as Tango FLNG to produce and export LNG from Vaca Muerta, one of the few shale gas plays in production outside the United States.

Texas-based LNG company Excelerate Energy and Argentina’s Transportadora de Gas del Sur signed in September of 2018 a memorandum of understanding to jointly study the technical and commercial viability of an LNG project at the Bahía Blanca port city for liquefying and exporting natural gas during the summer season. The companies expected to complete the study by the end of 2018.