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Sinochem News reported on August 16 in the "Petroleum World Journal" that in the second half of this year, almost half of Brazil's regasification capacity will be idle, which may attract new LNG cargoes into the country
.
The drought caused a shortage of critical hydroelectric power generation capacity, prompting the Brazilian authorities to increase natural gas power generation capacity
.
Based on the available regasification capacity, these increases may increase Brazil's 14 GW of basic gas-fired power generation capacity by approximately 6 GW
Once the state-owned Petrobras completes the government's request to ship its regasification vessel to the Pecem terminal in the northeastern state of Ceara, the transportation of LNG will be realized as soon as possible
.
This move will increase the regasification capacity by up to 7 million cubic meters per day, and may result in 750 megawatts of power generation from two power plants in the region without natural gas supply
The idle regasification capacity also depends on how Petrobras manages natural gas production during the maintenance of the Mexilhao offshore platform
.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is conducting electricity auctions on small generators that can be installed in the short term and the idle power generation capacity of existing power plants
.
However, in order to supply these facilities, most of the new gas-fired power generation equipment must be located at the regasification terminal near the coast, or connected to existing pipelines, which are also concentrated on the coast
The government also hopes to convert dual-fuel power plants to fuel power generation, so that more natural gas can be supplied to small generators
.
Brazil has five LNG terminals in operation
.
Three of them are owned by Petronas: Pecem in Ceará State; Baia de Guanabara in Rio de Janeiro; and Baía de Todos os Santos in Bahia State
These short-term measures will help Brazil avoid the risk of a 2 GW power shortage in November, and the government hopes to avoid this risk by importing electricity from Argentina and Uruguay
.
But these actions are critical to Brazil's power security in 2022
By the end of this year, the reservoir used for hydroelectric power generation will reach the lowest level in history, causing concerns among Brazilian authorities and electricity consumers
.
Brazil is expected to rely heavily on thermal power generation next year, preferably supplied by natural gas
Three new regasification facilities are expected to begin operations in 2022 or 2023: the Gas Sul terminal in southern Santa Catarina State; the Suape terminal in northeastern Pernambuco State; and Barcarena in northern Para State Terminal
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With the increase of these new capacity, Brazil's regasification capacity will reach 144 million cubic meters per day by 2023, or twice the total Brazilian natural gas demand currently supplied by domestic natural gas production and liquefied natural gas imports
