Project Profile

Value: US$1,000 million
Location: Zeebrugge, Belgium
Capacity: 13.2 mtpa (from 6.6 mtpa)
Annual throughput capacity of 9 billion cubic metres of natural gas.
Start-up Year: 2016

The project will see the proposed doubling of the capacity of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal (from 6.6 mtpa to 13.2 mtpa) and an expansion of its north-south onshore pipeline network, apparently in response to further capacity demand. A memorandum has outlined possibility not only of additional north-south pipeline capacities as early as 2012 from Zeebrugge toward France and from the Dutch-Belgian border toward France.  The Zeebrugge LNG terminal has an annual throughput capacity of nine billion cubic metres of natural gas importing the liquefied natural gas mainly from Qatar. It can receive 110 carriers per year and serves as a gateway to supply LNG into Northwestern Europe. The terminal consists of 4 LNG tanks totaling 380,00 cbm, a truck loading station, an existing jetty with one more jetty under construction.

Zeebrugge LNG terminal operated by Fluxys is scheduled to receive its first July cargo from Qatar. (June, 2016)

Operators:

Fluxys LNG: Operator with 100% interest


Contractors:

Joint Venture consortium TS LNG for a Turkey contract:
Sener
Techint E&C

Joint Venture consortium for EPC contract:
Saipem
CFE
FONTEC

GDF Suez: Additional berthing and storage capacity

Interconnector UK Ltd: EPC of the pipeline

MG Gas Oil (MBG): Construction contract

Solétanche Bachy: Diaphragm wall works for the fourth LNG storage tank in 2005

Sociedade de Montagens metalomecânicas (SMM): Mechanical erection of the fourth storage tank

Tractebel: Feasibility study

DF Oil & Gas and Felguera IHI: Turnkey contract for a new extension of the terminal. The turnkey contract covers the construction of a fifth LNG storage tank as well as additional process installations and represents an amount of over 200 million euros. The new installations are part of the investments required to offer the transshipment services.

BW Gas: owner of tri-fuel diesel electric liquefied natural gas carrier built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). (June, 2016)


Subcontractor:

STATS Group: Isolation project on behalf of Interconnector UK Ltd to facilitate valve remedial works

Amec Foster Wheeler: Detailed engineering contract by Felguera IHI—a company owned by Duro Felguera Group—for the expansion of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal in Belgium. The value of the contract, to be delivered over the next 15 months, has not been announced. Amec Foster Wheeler’s scope includes detailed engineering of the boil-off gas recovery system and associated facilities as well as the inter-connection with the new LNG storage tank and the existing plant facilities