The Company

Calamarí LNG is a Colombian company located in the city of Cartagena de Indias. Currently positioned as the unique LNG import agent in the country, founded by three of Colombia's main Thermal Generators: Termocandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P., Termobarranquilla S.A. E.S.P. and Zona Franca Celsia S.A. E.S.P., all of them with access to the regasification plant managed by SPEC LNG S.A. E.S.P. Calamarí acts as their representative for operational and commercial effects to SPEC's regasification plant.

Our Story

Over the last years in Colombia, several climate events such as “El Niño” which have occurred between 2009-2010 and between 2015-2016, have forced the government to review the natural gas supply sources for the coming years as well as its offer in general. This, in order to avoid the possibility of gas shortage which can eventually cause an electrical power rationing, as 30% of the energy produced in the country is generated by thermal plants using natural gas as main fuel.

On this revision, it was born the need to build a regasification plant in order to increase natural gas supply in the country and especially as an option to the energy sector. Through its Resolution 062 of 2013, the Energy and Gas Regulation Commission (CREG acronym in Spanish) stablished the alignments for thermal Generators that want to carry out reliability of electrical energy with LNG.

This is why according to the alignments of the regulation above, the thermal group (GT) was stablished in 2015 by Termocandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P., Termobarranquilla S.A. E.S.P. and Zona Franca Celsia S.A. E.S.P. This group further created Calamarí LNG S.A. E.S.P. to serve as the commercial and operational entity that represents them before SPEC LNG S.A. E.S.P. in LNG supply business.

Start up

 

On November 2016, commercial operations of the regasification plant started, and later on Calamarí LNG began operation in 2017 in the city of Cartagena de Indias. When its operation started in march 2017, also begun the process for expansion in the international market. On its first year of operation, it achieves to strengthen its first commercial relations, by being the first to import an LNG shipment in the country, thus initiating its positioning in Latin America as the sole agent to import this fuel in Colombia.

Shareholders

Calamarí LNG S.A. E.S.P. is a private corporation founded by the three main thermal generators of the north of Colombia: Termocandelaria S.C.A. E.S.P., Termobarranquilla S.A. E.S.P. and Zona Franca Celsia S.A. E.S.P.: