Belgium’s Fluxys has awarded the contract to double the capacity of its Zeebrugge LNG terminal to sister company Tractebel Engineering and SN Technigaz-Fontec-MBG. Fluxys will spend EUR 165 million to raise capacity to 9.1 Bcm/yr from 4.5 Bcm/yr by 2007. Both SN Technigaz-Fontec-MBG, which includes Italian engineers Saipem, and Tractebel, which along with Fluxys is a subsidiary of France’s Suez, were understood to be in the running for the deal. Tractebel will now be lead engineer working alongside Technigaz. Saipem’s share of the contract amounts to about EUR 120 million. Work
includes the engineering, procurement, and construction of the overall terminal facilities for the extension – including one LNG storage tank of 140,000 cu m and the regasification facilities. Early this month Tractebel’s shipping arm signed a 20-year capacity deal with Fluxys, giving it the right to unload and regasify 2.1 Bcm/year from late 2007. Two other companies also signed 20-year capacity deals. ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum signed up for 4.5 Bcm/year, naming Qatar as the source of the LNG and Distrigas, whose capacity deal expires in 2006, booked 2.5 Bcm/year.
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