Name and Location
Saldanha liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import terminal, Western Cape, South Africa.

Client
Sunrise Energy.

The majority shareholder in Sunrise is MOGS, in which Royal Bafokeng Holdings – a community-based investment company that has investment interests in all spheres of the South Africa economy – is a shareholder.

Project Description
The project’s terminal facilities will include a storage facility and multibuoy mooring (MBM) system, located in Big Bay, in Saldanha Bay, for the docking of LPG vessels. The vessels will range from 5 000 t to 6 000 t.

The product will be offloaded from ships at the MBM and transported to the onshore terminal by a subsea and overland pipeline to the onshore terminal, where the LPG will be blended and odourised to specification, before being dispatched to customers using road/rail loading, direct cylinder filling, or a pipeline to downstream customers or storage facilities. 

Phase 1 of the Sunrise Energy terminal is for 5 500 t of storage, which includes the MBM system and will allow for the importation of up to 17 500 t/m of LPG.   The project is designed in a modular way to respond to growth in demand, with an ultimate storage capacity of 16 500 t (after the implementation of Phase 3), corresponding to a throughput capacity of 52 000 t/m or 624 000 t/y.

The LPG terminal will be an open-access facility – it can be used by any gas importer, distributor or downstream user to import LPG.  This will ensure easier entry for all participants in the LPG distribution sector.

Value
Phase 1 will cost an estimated R900-million.

Duration
Construction started in February 2016 and is expected to be completed in 15 months.

Latest Developments
The facility will be commissioned and operational by April 2017.

Key Contracts and Suppliers
Aveng Engineering (engineering and procurement); WBHO (onshore terminal construction); Clough Murray & Roberts Marine (marine facilities and pipeline construction); and Efficient Engineering (LPG bullet fabrication).

On Budget and on Time?
Sunrise encountered several unforeseen delays following the start of early construction and fabrication in February 2014. The project is now back on track, with full construction starting February 2016.

Contact Details for Project Information
Sunrise Energy project development manager Karen Lowe, tel +27 21 551 4866, fax +27 86 660 7813 or email karen@sunrise-energy.co.za.
Aveng Engineering, tel +27 10 205 1000, fax +27 87 807 0143 or email info@e-pc.co.za.
WBHO, tel +27 11 321 7200, fax +27 11 887 4364 or email wbho@wbho.co.za.
Clough Murray & Roberts Marine, tel +27 11 456 6200, fax +27 11 455 2222 or email info@murrob.com.
Efficient Engineering, tel +27 12 460 9580, fax +27 12 346 6135 or email
info@efgroup.co.za.