Gas to Power Powership at Port of Saldanha

The Project entails the generation of electricity from one Powership moored in the Port of Saldanha Bay, fueled with natural gas supplied from a second ship, a FSRU. The two ships will be moored in the port for the Project’s contracted 20-year lifespan (as per the RMIPPPP requirements). A LNGC will bring in LNG and offload it to the FSRU approximately once every 20 to 30 days, dependent on power demand which is determined by the buyer, ESKOM. The FSRU stores the LNG onboard and turns the liquid form into gaseous form (Natural Gas) upon demand from the Powership (Regasification). Natural gas will be transferred from the FSRU to the Powership via a subsea gas and overland pipeline. Electricity will be generated on the Powership by 24 reciprocating engines, each having a heat input in excess of 10MW (design capacity of 18.32MW each at full capacity). Heat generated by operation of the reciprocating engines is captured, and that energy is used to create steam to drive two steam turbines that each have a heat input of circa 15.45MW. The contracted capacity of 320MW, which will be measured at the Point of Utility Connection located at the new switching station, and which cannot be exceeded under the terms of the RMIPPPP, will be evacuated via a 132 kV transmission line. This line of approximately 7.5km in length will interconnect the Powership to the National Grid utilising the existing Aurora- Saldanha Steel network via a new 132kV on shore switching station.