LNG consortium to build France regasification plant
Engineering firms SENER and Techint have signed a contract with EDF to develop a regasification plant in Dunkerque, France.
The firms were awarded the EPC contract as part of the TS LNG consortium made up of SENER and Techint. Specific figures were not disclosed.
The Dunkerque LNG regasification plant will have three 190,000 m3 storage tanks and will be able to produce 13 billion cubic meters/year of natural gas, equaling a supply of 1.9 million cubic meters/hour.
It will be equipped with a jetty, unloading arms and pipes, storage tanks, systems for regasification and gas emission, a boil-off gas recovery system, a flare stack, a seawater pump system for vaporization, auxiliary systems, and a series of buildings (offices, control buildings, safety facilities, shops) designed for the operations.
Within the TS LNG consortium, SENER, in close cooperation with Techint, will develop all of the basic and detailed engineering, acquire equipment and build civil-works constructions, buildings, jetty, unloading pipes and the regasification processing plant of the station and coordinate with consortia in charge of tanks and tunnel, it said.
It will also conduct all of the activities for commissioning and start-up of the facility.
Construction will take place over a period of four years, with the plant being operational in 2015.
This new contract represents the consolidation of TS LNG's position in Europe as an LNG gas regasification-plant company, it said.
As part of this consortium, SENER is finalizing construction of the GATE LNG terminal in Rotterdam (the Netherlands), with an export capacity of up to 16 billion cubic meters/year plus a 20% peak, and with four storage tanks.
This project, which is also being developed as a turnkey project, is a benchmark in the European gas sector, one of the main energy projects in the Netherlands and a technological showcase on an international level, officials said.
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