Project Profile
Location: Isle of Grain, Thames Estuary, Near London, UK
Capacity: 15 million tons/ annum
LNG Storage: 1 million cubic metres
Grain LNG is the UK’s first modern LNG facility and can hold almost 1 million cubic metres of liquefied natural gas in store.
The terminal recently commissioned an additional unloading jetty and storage tank. Storage capacity: Phase 1 - four existing LNG storage tanks with a total storage capacity of 200,000 cubic metres, Phase 2 - three full containment 190,000 cubic metres LNG storage tanks and Phase 3 - One 190,000 cubic metres LNG storage tank. Phase 4 is in the planning stage.
Construction work includes a second jetty, able to take the world\'s largest LNG carriers - the Q-Max - and an additional full containment LNG storage tank of 190,000m3. The capacity owners for this phase are Centrica, E.ON and Iberdrola.
Operators:
National Grid: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
CB&I: EPC for phase 2 &3
Xodus Group: FEED contact (April 2016)
WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff: Selected to provide engineering and design services on the National Grid’s Grain LNG terminal’s expansion framework. (April 2016)