Canadian Firm Breaks Ground on Northern LNG Plant

Canadian Cryopeak LNG Solutions said April 2 it had broken ground on a new natural gas liquefaction facility in the northern BC community of Fort Nelson capable of producing 90,000 gallons/day of LNG.

Fort Nelson is about 165 km south of the BC-Yukon border, which Cryopeak says makes the new facility the closest LNG production point to northern Canada and portions of Alaska.

A key feature of the plant’s design incorporates a new truck loading system that optimises loading of Cryopeak’s fleet of LNG Super B-train tankers – twin trailer units that exceed the capacity of existing LNG transport trailers by 70%.

Business opportunities for local construction workers, service companies, and operations personnel will become available for the construction of the facility, Cryopeak said, and for the distribution of LNG to northern Canada from a new transportation hub in Fort Nelson. Cryopeak is partnering with Fort Nelson First Nations to develop business opportunities associated with the project.

Cryopeak has selected CryoSys LLC, with a fabrication facility in central Texas, to provide equipment for the facility.

“Our highly efficient optimised mixed refrigerant process and our ability to package the modular liquefaction plant in our workshop allows us to provide the lowest installation and operating costs for a small-scale LNG plant in the LNG marketplace,” CryoSys CEO Neil Karr said, adding modules should be delivered to the plant site in early summer.