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GNA is a venture consisting of UK’s energy giant BP, Germany’s engineer Siemens, China’s SPIC, and Prumo. The Brazilian private company is controlled by US-based EIG Global Energy Partners.
According to a statement by GNA, Brazil’s power regulator Aneel approved the start of commercial operations at the GNA II power plant.
In September 2021, GNA commissioned the first 1.3-gigawatt LNG power plant.
The JV officially launched construction work on the second plant in February 2022.
Siemens Energy secured a contract to build the second LNG power plant for GNA.
The company announced in November 2021 that the contract was valued at approximately 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion).
The scope for Siemens included the entire power island delivery, which consisted of three highly efficient HL class gas turbines, one steam turbine, four electric generators, and three heat recovery steam generators.
Also, Siemens built the power plant together with the consortium partner Andrade Gutierrez who provided the civil works, the infrastructure, and the erection works.
Combined, these two power plants have 3 GW of installed capacity, forming the largest gas-to-power project in Latin America, GNA claims.
Besides the power plants, the complex includes an LNG terminal with a total capacity of 21 million cubic meters per day.
FSRU BW Magna arrived in June 2020 in the Brazilian port to start its contract serving GNA’s project. After that, BP supplied the first-ever cargo to BW’s FSRU in December 2020.