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GasEntec, along with affiliates, announced the signing of the contracts with Elton Logistics and Services in a statement on Tuesday.
The LNG technology and assets firm did not provide pricing details for the contract.
GasEntec said the new LNG terminal would become West Africa’s flagship LNG import facility, supplying natural gas to a 300 MW combined-cycle power plant in Cap des Biches, Dakar – Senegal’s largest power plant – as well as several other power plants, industrial customers, and various additional users.
The project supports Senegal’s continued energy transition as the country diversifies its fuel sources while enabling economic and industrial growth, it said.
The project was awarded under a mandate to address urgent national power-sector requirements.
GasEntec expects first gas on an expedited basis, with full terminal operations targeted for the first half of 2027.
Reganosa
Last month, Spain’s Reganosa secured a contract as project management consultant for the LNG import terminal in Dakar, promoted by Elton Logistics and Services.
The Spanish company will lead the management and administration of this project.
The future LNG terminal, to be developed in the port of Dakar, was initially conceived as a comprehensive infrastructure with a floating storage unit with a capacity of 137,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, according to Reganosa.
Reganosa noted that the project also includes a quay with mooring systems, onshore regasification facilities, ten bays for loading trucks, and two 15-kilometer submarine gas pipelines to supply gas to several power stations.
In order to bring forward deadlines, the project has been structured into two phases.
The first, called the early gas solution, will allow the start of gas supply to be brought forward by means of a modular regasification solution installed directly on the quay, Reganosa said.
In a second phase, the onshore infrastructure will be expanded, including new truck loading facilities and other elements that are not critical for the initial start-up, it said.
Senegal’s LNG imports
Senegal currently imports LNG via the 125,000-cbm FSRU Karmol LNGT Powership Africa, owned by the joint venture consisting of Turkiye’s Karpowership and Japan’s MOl.
In 2021, KARMOL’s FSRU arrived in Dakar to start serving the country’s first LNG-to-power project, following the completion of conversion works in Singapore.
However, Karpowership announced in July last year that the FSRU received its first LNG cargo from the US.
The FSRU supplies regasified LNG to Karpowership’s 235 MW Karadeniz Powership Aysegul Sultan located alongside the shores of Dakar.
In 2019, Senegal’s power utility Senelec signed an LNG-to-power contract with Karpowership.
The African country has ambitions to shift primarily to natural gas for its power production in order to slash emissions and costs.