Brazil's oil and gas regulator ANP approved the start of a public consultation for natural gas transport on the new Itaborai-Guapimirim (Gasig) pipeline, to be built by midstream company NTS.
The Gasig project will be 11km (6.83 miles) long and have a nominal capacity of 18.2mn m³/d (642,727 cf/d), to allow for the movement of the natural gas from the Rota 3 pipeline. The Gasig pipeline will transport gas from offshore fields via the 355km Rota 3 pipeline to the GasLub gas processing facility and petrochemicals complex. Rota 3 will have the capacity to transport and process 21mn m³/d of natural gas when completed.
Gasig will be the first pipeline to be built in Brazil in over a decade and will be connected to the Gasoduto Cabiunas-Reduc–Gasduc III system.
Construction of the pipeline is expected to finish in the first half of 2023.
The public consultation aims to identify the demand for the gas transport service that would be offered by the pipeline and for firm service contracts at the Itaborai entry point for 15 years, from March 2023 forward.
