Canaport LNG hits safety milestone

Repsol YPF’s Canaport LNG terminal in Canada recently achieved one-million man-hours worked without a lost time injury.

According to Canaport LNG, there are two constant challenges faced at Canaport LNG that make this accomplishment significant.

“Our most challenging factor is that the great amount of technical expertise and number of regulatory obligations associated with the LNG terminal are managed by a very small group of individuals.

Secondly, the ice and snow associated with the Canadian winter provide significant additional hazards that require every person on site to be vigilant against conditions which could result in injury,” the company said in a report.

Repsol has in 2013 signed a supply deal with Royal Dutch Shell to receive roughly 1 million tons per year of LNG to its Canaport terminal over a 10-year period. This was a part of the company’s LNG asset sale in Trinidad and Peru.

Canaport LNG, located in Saint John, New Brunswick, is Canada’s only LNG import terminal and has a maximum send-out capacity of 28 million cubic metres of natural gas per day.

It has three 160,000 cbm LNG storage tanks and a 400 metres long jetty, able to berth ships carrying from 75,000 cbm to 250,000 cbm.

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LNG World News Staff; Image: Canaport LNG