Tag: LNG infrastructure

Wärtsilä has been given full notice to proceed (NTP) from Manga LNG Oy for the supply of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Tornio, Northern Finland. Wärtsilä will commence construction on the site near the port of Tornio in January 2015. Manga LNG Oy is a joint venture of Outokumpu Group, Svenskt Stål AB (SSAB), Skangass and EPV Energy Ltd. Wärtsilä initially announced this project in January 2014. The order, valued at approximately EUR 100 million, will be included in Wärtsilä’s order intake in December 2014. The turnkey delivery of the first import terminal supplied by Wärtsilä includes complete unloading, storing and regasification equipment for LNG. The capacity of the LNG storage tank will be 50 000 cubic metres. A 10-year maintenance agreement was also signed between the parties. The first maintenance agreement for an LNG terminal complements Wärtsilä’s service proposition and experience within dual-fuel and gas engines and related equipment. One of the main users of the imported natural gas will be the Outokumpu Tornio steel mill. A gas pipeline will be built to the nearby Röyttä industrial site, where the mill is located. Additional potential gas users are mines, factories and other industrial customers in Northern ...

The EU's TEN-T Programme will invest almost €2.5 million for studies and pilot construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the seaport of Bremen in Germany. The green and economically attractive LNG could help reduce air pollution caused by maritime transport. European Regulations require the shipping sector to reduce marine sulphur emissions in the North Sea to 0.1% as of January 2015. One of the ways to reach this objective is to use cleaner fuel such as LNG. This project responds to the TEN-T programme goal to provide publicly accessible LNG refuelling facilities in all core European ports by 2030, leading to improved market acceptance and availability of LNG as an alternative fuel. The project features a study and pilot construction of a flexible, multi-modal LNG terminal that could provide a reliable supply of LNG to maritime, road and rail users in a geographical area of around 300-400 km. It covers planning, design and engineering, as well as the construction and operation of an LNG filling station. While the initial size will be relatively small the flexible approach ensures that effective market demand can be accommodated by enlarging the facility at a later stage. The project was selected ...

On 10 December 2014, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy granted 27,660,000 euros in investment subsidies to Haminan Energia for the construction of an LNG terminal at the Port of HaminaKotka’s oil and gas harbour. However, the subsidies shall cover at most 30 per cent of the project's approved realised costs. “The MEE has granted investment subsidies to four LNG projects this autumn. This will launch over 300 million euros in investments in liquefied natural gas terminals.  The objective is to build a comprehensive terminal network on Finland’s coastline, which will create alternative sourcing options for maritime transport and industry that uses gas,” Minister of Economic Affairs Jan Vapaavuori explains. The Haminan Energia liquefied natural gas terminal, construction of which is to be completed in autumn 2018, would be made up of one LNG tank, 30,000 cubic metres in size, and machinery related to receiving, unloading, storing and delivering LNG. An estimated 118,000 tonnes of gas will travel through the terminal each year. The terminal will sell LNG to industry, maritime transport and road transport. LNG would for the most part replace the present use of natural gas in industry, fuel oil in maritime transport and gasoline and diesel ...

Spain’s gas system is so long that shippers are planning to inject gas into storage facilities throughout December, according to initial nominations published by Spanish gas transmission system operator (TSO) Enagas. Under normal circumstances, Spain – like other countries – would be expected to withdraw in the period between the start of November and the end of March. However, this year oversupply in the Spanish system has turned the situation on its head. The news will come as no surprise for traders active in Spain, some of which predicted this could happen if the country remained unable to reduce its LNG stocks. These have built up since the summer as traders stockpiled LNG for the purposes of setting up reloads to formerly lucrative markets, such as Asia. But a collapse in global demand has left Spanish shippers with LNG held in-tank, with little option but to regasify and put it into the grid. The number of vessels discharging in Spain is unchanged at 22 (unloading around 2.42TWh), but the number of reloads planned for December has collapsed. There were 10 originally scheduled in October (lifting 1.43TWh), but this has dropped to four now (lifting just 0.41TWh), figures from Enagas show. ...

The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply that demand of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the country is price sensitive. Hence demand for LNG in the country will depend on the landed price of Regasified LNG. Presently, the country is having 79.2 Million Metric Standard Cubic Meter per day (MMSCMD) of Regasification capacity and during the period April to September 2014, 44.55 MMSCMD of RLNG was supplied to consumers in different sectors. As such, the country is having spare regasification capacity which can be utilized depending upon the demand and affordability of consumers in different sectors to absorb imported RLNG. The price of imported RLNG is market determined and is settled mutually between the buyer and the seller. LNG terminals are set up by different entities based on their techno-commercial considerations. Presently, there is no proposal with the Ministry to set up LNG terminal in Mathura. In September, 2013, Petronet LNG Limited (PLL) has commissioned LNG terminal at Kochi in the State of Kerala with a capacity of 5 MMTPA. Further, IOCL has planned to set up LNG import, storage and regasification terminal with a capacity ...

Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX) started the construction of an LNG terminal in Shinchi Town, Fukushima Prefecture (Soma Port). JAPEX is also preparing to construct a connecting pipeline to convey vaporized LNG gas from the terminal to its main trunk pipeline. JAPEX is supplying natural gas produced domestically in Niigata, Yamagata and Akita prefectures, as well as vaporized LNG gas received from overseas, to users in the production areas and to those in other areas through its pipeline network, which includes the Niigata-Sendai Pipeline and Shiroishi-Koriyama Pipeline. JAPEX is also supplying LNG in liquid form to users through LNG satellite stations utilizing freight containers and tank trucks. Miyagi and Iwate. Therefore, JAPEX will proceed with the construction of the Soma LNG receiving terminal that will store and vaporize LNG to be offloaded from large ocean-going LNG tankers docked at Soma Port, and the construction of the new 40km pipeline to convey vaporized LNG gas from the terminal to JAPEX’s Niigata-Sendai Pipeline (connecting at the Iwanuma Valve Station in Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture), which is considered JAPEX’s main artery. The completion of the new terminal and pipeline will represent the establishment of a robust energy network that is superior in terms of ...

The safe installation of the 6,500 tonne structure by the deepwater construction vessel Aegir marks the beginning of the Project’s major installation campaign in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia. Ichthys LNG Project Managing Director Louis Bon said the RSS is the largest subsea structure ever laid on the seabed. “The Riser Support Structure is the masterpiece of the Project’s subsea facilities,” Mr Bon said. “It is also a serious physical foundation, because when its arch is placed, the structure will stand 110 metres off the seabed. “Today’s milestone is significant for the Project, because it marks our return to the Ichthys Field for the installation of our offshore facilities after years of intense engineering and fabrication work.” The completed RSS will be a physical, fixed support for flexible risers and dynamic umbilicals that connect subsea gathering systems to the Project’s semi-submersible central processing facility (CPF), currently under construction in Korea. Ichthys LNG Project Offshore Director Claude Cahuzac said it was an exciting time for the Project as facilities and structures started to move from construction yards around the world to the Ichthys Field. “The RSS is an integral piece of the subsea field architecture, as all other subsea structures and the CPF mooring system will be installed and oriented relative to its location ...

The possibility for truck-to-ship bunkering with LNG already exists in the port of Antwerp, but the construction of a bunkering station will make LNG continuously available for barges. In comparison with diesel, the fuel currently used by European barges, LNG is much cleaner. The exhaust gases from a barge powered by LNG contain hardly any particulates, and the emissions of NOx and SOx are also drastically reduced. Construction of the LNG bunkering station Antwerp Port Authority is one of the partners in the LNG Master Plan for the Rhine-Main-Danube aimed at promoting LNG as a fuel and as a cargo for European barges. As part of this European project the Port Authority is building a bunkering station for barges, partially subsidised by the European Commission’s TEN-T programme. After the European announcement of the selection of candidates earlier this year, the specifications for construction of the station will been given to the selected candidates this month. Operation of the LNG bunkering station The Port Authority is now issuing an official Request for Proposals with a view to appointing a candidate to operate the LNG bunkering station, for which the Port Authority will grant a five-year concession. During this period the operator ...