Clifford Chance
Colombia: Pacific Coast Regasification Facility and Gas Pipeline
April 9, 2021
- In 2018, the Colombian government adopted a National Development Plan for 2018-2022 under which the Colombian Ministry of Mines and Energy was instructed to adopt the necessary measures to ensure the supply of natural gas in Colombia, including the construction of a regasification facility on its Pacific coast.
- In May 2018, the Colombian Mining and Energy Planning Unit published the preliminary bid documents for the design, procurement, financing, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of (i) a regasification facility in the form of either an FSRU or an onshore facility and (ii) a gas pipeline connecting the municipalities of Buenaventura and Yumbo. In October 2020, UPME published the bid documents for comments and scheduled the bid for the second quarter of 2021.
