Projects
Keltic Petrochemicals – Goldboro, Guysborough County
Keltic Petrochemicals Inc. is proposing to develop, construct, and operate a 4.5 billion dollar world-scale petrochemical plant in Goldboro, Nova Scotia. When completed, the facility will consist of an ethylene, polyethylene, propylene and polypropylene plants as well as a supporting cogeneration plant and a receiving terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The petrochemical complex will be the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada. Keltic will extract the ethane and the propane from both the LNG and natural gas that comes on shore at Goldboro. The ethane and propane will be converted into ethylene and propylene and further processed into polyethylene and polypropylene resin (plastic pellets). The resin will be sold to manufacturers for use in the production of consumer and industrial plastic products. Keltic will have an annual production capacity of 1,450,000 tonnes.
At the peak of the 36-month construction period more than 3,000 jobs will be created, with more than 500 permanent jobs required at the end of construction. Marine based jobs, including vessel captains, mates, and crew for a pilot boat, vessels (25,000 tons capacity per) transporting plastic pellets to market and miscellaneous vessels to transport off-gas and refinery grade propane will also be available. There will be a need for three harbour tugs with four personnel per vessel.
On March 14, 2007, the project received environmental approval from the Nova Scotia Minister of the Environment.
www.kelticpetrochemicals.ca/home
Maple LNG – Goldboro, Guysborough County
The proposed Maple LNG facilities are located next to the Keltic Petrochemical Plant in Goldboro. The Nova Scotia project will initially include three LNG storage tanks of 160,000 cubic metres capacity, providing a send-out capacity of 9 bcma. The development will be phased, starting at 9bcma and expanding to 18 bcma. The Goldboro site will be able to receive LNG carriers of up to 250,000 cubic metres.
The Final Environmental permit was received in March 2008 and the Permit to Construct was issued in June 2008, allowing a scheduled start of production in 2012.
www.maplelng.com
Melford International Terminals Inc. - Melford, Guysborough County
The Melford International Terminals Inc. (MITI) is a proposed 300 million dollar project proposing a new deepwater port and state-of-the-art intermodal rail container logistics terminal on the Strait of Canso at Melford Point, Nova Scotia. World container traffic is currently growing at a compound rate of over 6-7 percent per year and is expected to double in the next two decades. The majority of this increase will be in the Trans-Pacific trade lanes where 15 percent compound annual growth is expected through the year 2015. Under these circumstances, ports on the east coast of North America now receive a growing share of cargo from China, India and Southeast Asia. The Panama Canal is presently operating at 93 percent capacity and cannot absorb the predicted rise in Asian traffic. Therefore, shippers and beneficial cargo owners continue to seek stable and reliable supply chain routes and are increasingly having goods sent directly to east coast ports via the Suez Canal. As the first North American landfall on the Trans-Suez route from Asia, The strategically located, ice free, deep water port at Melford can serve the growing U.S. markets. When Melford International Terminal opens in 2011, it will easily handle the largest containerships in the world today and those on the drawing boards of tomorrow. When complete, Melford will be the closest North American deep-water mainland port to Europe, Asia and the Indian Sub-continent (via the Suez Canal). Transatlantic and Suez routings will reduce voyage transit times and fuel consumption by using the Melford gateway to Canada and the United States. Ocean shipping is quickly becoming the most competitive form of transport.
200 full time positions will be available at the terminal with an anticipated 1500 for the logistics park. The project is anticipated to be operational by 2011.
www.melford-terminal.com/index.php
EnCana’s Deep Panuke
The project involves the installation of facilities required to produce and process natural gas from the Deep Panuke field, approximately 250 kilometers southeast of Nova Scotia on the Scotian Shelf. Natural gas from Deep Panuke will be processed offshore and transported, via subsea pipeline, to Goldboro, Nova Scotia for further transport to markets in Canada and the northeast United States via the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. An additional land based pipeline and metering station will be constructed in the Goldboro Industrial Park and connected to Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline’s export pipeline. The design capacity of the current project is 300 MMscfd of sales gas.
EnCana's Deep Panuke project has been approved for development by EnCana's Board of Directors. Installation of the subsea pipeline is expected in the fall of 2008. First gas from Deep Panuke is expected in 2010.
www.encana.com/operations/canada/deeppanuke/index