The works will start in the fall for an entry into activity in September 2023. This is a “provisional project” which will “vocation to be dismantled when the tensions in terms of supply have been overcome “.
Le Monde with AFP
The public authorities have retained the project of a floating methanier terminal of totalnergies as a new point of importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Le Havre, we learned by the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, Friday, July 29 .
This is one of the two FSRU ships (Flozed Flozing Unit) of the group, “which will inject up to 5 billion cubic meters of natural gas ([the equivalent of] approximately 60 % of Russian gas imported by France in 2021) per year in the national network “. Its activity should start in September 2023, we can read in the press release. 2> “About 10 % of annual French consumption”
The energy show between Moscow and Westerners since the start of the conflict in Ukraine has caused a natural gas supply crisis throughout Europe. France is now fed by four Ports Import Terminals from GNL (two in Fos-sur-Mer, one in Montoir-de-Bretagne and one in Dunkirk) and wanted to secure its supply with a new terminal.
Marked at the wearing of Le Havre, the Cape Ann ship can inject “around 10 % of French annual consumption”, according to the prefecture, from the coordinated ships which will come to supply it with gas from “possibly from Norway, D ‘Algeria, Qatar, the United States, Nigeria, Angola, or Egypt “.
The development work of the quay and connection carried out by Totalenergies and GRTGaz are supposed to start in the fall of 2022 for this “Project of a provisional nature” which will be dismantled when the tensions in terms of supply will have been overcome “. Risk evaluation studies in terms of security and security are “in the process of completion” according to the prefect, who instructs a so -called “case by case” file.