Teekay’s Madrid Spirit was the first vessel to discharge at the brand new Dunkerque LNG Terminal on July 8, 2016.
The 77,213 dwt Madrid Spirit has a gross tonnage of 90,835 tonnes. The LNG vessel was built in 2004 at DSME and it is 284.37 meters long and 42.5 meters wide. Dunkerque LNG said in a statement that a second boat is expected during the first fortnight in August, to carry out test runs of the whole system and performance tests.
Occupying a 56 ha site alongside Dunkirk’s Western Harbour, the Dunkerque LNG terminal offers:
- a jetty large enough to enable the unloading/reloading of the largest LNG carriers (267,000m3) at a maximum flow rate of 14,000 m3 per hour for unloading and 4,000 m3 per hour for reloading. The Dunkerque LNG terminal is currently being modified to enable a maximum reloading flow rate of 8,800 m3(LNG) per hour
- 3 storage tanks, each capable of storing 190,000 m3 of LNG at -163°C
- 10 Open Rack Vaporizers (ORV) or regasifiers to raise the temperature of the LNG and enable it to return to its natural gas state ready to be sent out into the supply network
- a 5 km tunnel between the discharge canal of the Gravelines nuclear power plant and the terminal – to carry some of the heated cooling water discharged by the power plant for use in reheating the LNG in the ORVs
Learn more about Dunkerque LNG terminal here
