Commercial operations of Gastrade’s Alexandroupolis LNG terminal begins
Published by Emilie Grant,
Editorial Assistant
Tanks and Terminals,
Gastrade has announced that the Alexandroupolis LNG Terminal has entered commercial operations. It is an energy project designed, built, owned and operated by Gastrade. A project envisioned 15 years ago by Dimitris Copelouzos.
The project contributes to energy security and to the diversification of sources and energy supply routes for Southeast and Central Europe, upgrading the role and importance of Greece in the contemporary energy map of Europe, making it an energy gateway for more than nine countries.
The implementation of the project began to materialise when the final investment decision (FID) was taken on January 27, 2022, by Gastrade. Subsequently, onshore and offshore construction work in Alexandroupolis progressed rapidly, while in February 2023 construction of the LNG floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) began in Singapore. The FSRU sailed from the Seatrium shipyard on November 26, 2023, arriving in the waters of the Thracian Sea on December 17, 2023, where it moored in its permanent position. With the completion of all commissioning tests and the issuance by the Ministry of Energy and Environment of the Operating Permit, the project was brought into operational readiness, officially allowing the commencement of its commercial operations.
The Alexandroupolis LNG Terminal consists, apart from the FSRU, of a subsea and onshore natural gas pipeline which connects the FSRU to the national natural gas transmission system (“NNGTS”) through which it will deliver natural gas to Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Moldova and Ukraine in the east, as well as Hungary and Slovakia in the west. The FSRU, named ‘Alexandroupolis’ to honour the city and its inhabitants, who embraced this ambitious project from the beginning, has technology with a maximum regasification capacity of 5.5 billion m3/y per year.
Read the article online at: https://www.tanksterminals.com/terminals/04102024/commercial-operations-of-gastrades-alexandroupolis-lng-terminal-begins/
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