Bilbao LNG Terminal

Summary Information

• Ownership: Bahía de Bizkaia Gas

* Enagas, the Basque Energy Board (Ente Vasco de la Energ a — EVE), and Iberdrola

• Website: http://www.bahiasdebizkaia.com/
• Location: Bilbao, Spain
• Capacity: million tons/annum
• Status: In Operation

+++ Brief Description

• The project consists of an 800 megawatt combined cycle gas turbine power plant, a 2.75 billion cubic meter a year (bcma) regasification facility, LNG import terminal and a total of 300,000 cubic meter storage capacity.

+++ Technical Details

• Storage capacity: 2 * 150,000 m3
• Unloading capacity:

* Initially jetty could accomodate tankers of 135,000 m3 but can now receive LNG carriers up to 270,000 m3

• Send out capacity: gas delivery rates can be up to 800,000m3 per hour

* Vaporizers: 4 ORVs of 200,000 Ncu.m/h, 1 SCV of 135,000 Ncu.m/h.

• Constructor:

* **Sofregaz:** Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning
* **Saipem:** Marine Works: LNG offloading jetty with mooring facilities 

+++ Ongoing Projects/Project Status

• There are plans to construct a third tank

+++ Suppliers / Customers

• Suppliers: When the Bilbao regas and power facility was first conceived, the idea was that it would be supplied with LNG from Trinidad. However it now receives gas from a wide variety of sources
• Customers: A natural gas powered combined cycle electrical power plant, with a power output of 800 MW was constructed as part of the complex

+++ History

• 2000 - The project was sanctioned by the 4 original partners
• 2003 - First phase of the Terminal with capacity of 3.5bcma of gas was commissioned
• 2004 - An expansion to double its capacity to 7bcma wA completed
• 2008 - Permission was granted for larger vessels
• 2009 - Enagás buys 25% of Bahía de Bizkaia Gas from BP

+++ Other Information

• When seawater is used for warming the LNG, its temperature is lowered. Conversely, the seawater used to condense the steam in the power plant becomes warmer.
• Normally these would be on two separate circuits, but in Bilbao there is a common cooling water circuit. In effect the seawater is raised by 5°C in the power plant, then passes to the LNG vaporisers where it is is cooled down by 3°C.
• This means there is one seawater intake and one seawater discharge, reducing construction costs, and seawater is returned to the ocean with only marginal temperature rise.’

+++ Relevant Links

1. Bilbao LNG Receiving Terminal
2. Bilbao LNG Receiving Terminal (Spain)
3. Bah a de Bizkaia Gas will be able to receive LNG carriers up to 270,000 m3
4. Iberian energiser
5. [[[Saipem LNG References]]]
6. Enagás buys 25% of Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG
7. BP Amoco and Partners Sanction Major 'Wellhead To Wire' Integrated Energy Project