Dunkerque LNG Terminal
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Summary Information
- Ownership: EDF
- Website: http://dunkerque-lng.edf.com/uk/index.html
- Location: Dunkirk
- Capacity: 13 billion cubic metres/annum
- Status: In operation
Brief Description
- Dunkirk's intended LNG terminal has an annual hosting capacity of 9 Gm3 (billions of m3), or around 20% of France's current consumption.
Technical Details
- Storage capacity: Three LNG storage tanks each with a capacity of 190,000 m3; a tank measures around 50 m in height and has a diameter of 90 m ;
- Unloading capacity:
- Send out capacity: 1.9 million m3(n)/h (cubic meters per hour)
Constructor:
- SOFREGAZ: engineering and project Management contract
- SENER and Techint have been awarded an EPC contract as the TS LNG consortium
- SMM: Contract for erection of 3 cryogenic LNG tanks
- Licensor:
Project Status
- The construction was completed in 2017
Customers / Suppliers
- Customers
- Total will utilise some of the capacity for its needs
- EDF will use majority of the capacity to supply 3 new gas fired plants which it is building
- Supplies will come from the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal
History
- 2008 - Dunkerque LNG awarded SOFREGAZ an engineering and project Management contract
- 2011 - EDF confirms its investment in Dunkirk methane terminal project
- 2011 - SENER and Techint were awarded an EPC contract
- 2011 - Final investment decision made
- 2012 - SMM Wins Contract for erection of 3 cryogenic LNG tanks
- 2012 - Foundation stone laid
- 2015 - EDF signs purchase agreement with Cheniere
- 2017 - Commercial Operation begins
Other Information
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Links
- EDF pushes ahead with the development of Dunkirk methane terminal
- Environmental Impact
- EDF and Total Sign an agreement in the Planned Dunkirk LNG Terminal
- EDF confirms its investment in Dunkirk methane terminal project
- DUNKIRK - FRANCE - LNG RECEIVING TERMINAL
- SENER to perform turnkey project for the Dunkerque Regasification Plant
- EDF announces its final investment decision in the methane terminal at Dunkirk
- SMM Wins Contract for erection of 3 cryogenic LNG tanks
- Foundation stone laid for the Dunkirk LNG terminal
- Dunkirk LNG TANKS
- Cheniere Marketing
- Commercial commissioning of the Dunkirk regasification terminal