Project Profile
Location: Pas-de-Calais Department, Port of Dunkerque, France
Construction Costs: US$1.11 billion
Start-up year: 4Q 2016
Storage capacity: 570,000 cm
Regasification capacity: 13 billion cbm per year
Berthing capacity: LNG carriers up to 267,000cm (Q-Max)
Electricite de France (EDF) looks to construct a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the port of Dunkerque. The facility will have a capacity of 13 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year, equivalent to 9.4 million tonnes per year.
Dunkirk LNG claims to be the only LNG import terminal which serves two markets, namely France and Belgium. The plant is connected by two separate pipelines to these markets, and can supply around 20% of combined French and Belgian gas consumption.
Since 2006, EDF and Dunkirk port have been jointly developing the project for a methane terminal, a facility for the regasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Dunkirk, that would enable the world's largest methane tankers to dock in France at the West Port's outer harbour.
The Dunkirk LNG terminal is made up of the following installations:
- An entry point for around 80 LNG tankers a year, with capacity of up to 270,000 cubic metres.
- LNG unloading system.
- Three LNG storage tanks holding 190,000 cubic metres each (each tank is around 50m high and 90m in diameter).
- A regasification unit.
- A sea water intake for heating the LNG. For this project, part of the cooling waters from the Gravelines nuclear plant will be used to reheat the LNG.
- A pipeline to the gas transport network.
Operators:
Gaz Opale (a Belgian-French JV with backers Fluxys NV and EDF): 35.76 interest
Fluxys Group: 25% interest
IMP Group: 39.24
Contractors:
Consortium including constituent companies for EPC to construct storage tanks:
Entrepose Contracting
Bouygues
Sofregaz: Pre-FEED contract
Consortium including constituent companies for terminal EPC:
Sener Engineering
Techint Group
IKM Testing Spain: Contract with TS-LNG, a joint venture between Techint Engineering & Construction and SENER. This new contract consists in pre-commissioning and commissioning of the Dunkerque LNG facility in Dunkirk, France. The scope of work includes drying, purging, leak testing, pre-cool down and assistance to cool-down.