THE Government of Guyana has invited qualified firms to respond to a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Phase II of the Gas-to-Energy (GTE) Project.
According to the RFP, the government invited qualified firms to design, finance and operate the second phase of the project on the basis of a 20-to-25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).
This phase, the document says, is based on the government securing from Exxon Mobil Guyana Limited additional gas to fill the pipeline to Wales.

Phase One amounts to some 50 million standard cubic feet per day (MMCFD), which is 40 per cent of the pipeline’s capacity, while Phase Two is projected at 75 MMCFD, being 60 per cent of the pipeline’s capacity.
Further, the project includes the design construction and operation of a 250 megawatt (MW) combined-cycle power plant to deliver 2,100 gigawatt hours (GHW) of electricity per annum, and sold to the Guyana Power and Light Inc via a power purchase agreement.

It also caters for the design, construction and operation of a natural gas liquids (NGL) facility to produce at approximately 6,000 barrels per day of NGL products like propane, butane and C5+gasolene, utilising 75 MMCFD of ‘rich gas’.
Additionally, it caters for the transfer to the Government of Guyana, at no cost, excess, ‘lean gas’, estimated at 30 MMCFD for the utilisation in downstream industries.

According to the RFP, Phase Two will be located on no more than 100 acres of land, immediately adjacent to the existing 300 MW integrated facility.
“The project will be 100 per cent financed by the private sector, under a project finance structure, which will design and construct the integrated facilities, to a standard and specification that meets and or exceeds that of phase one of the GTE,” the invitation states.
Meanwhile, the government has noted that only firms with experience in engineering procurement and construction and financing of comparable facilities will be evaluated.
Responses to the RFP should be submitted by November 14, 2024 by 14:00 hrs, and must be submitted in the tender box and addressed to the Chairman of the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board.