Doris Leblond
OGJ correspondent
PARIS, July 12 -- Gaz de France has awarded a lump sum, turnkey contract to a joint venture of Italian oil services company Saipem SPA and French engineering firm Sofregaz to construct an LNG terminal at Fos Cavaou, on the southern French coast, about 50 km west of Marsiglia and nearby the existing Fos terminal.
The 350 million euro project is slated to last some 37 months and will mobilize about 1,500 workers. The contract includes engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of a terminal with a capacity of 8.25 billion cu m/year, three LNG tanks, each with 110,000 cu m storage capacity, marine facilities, and all related infrastructures and utilities.
The terminal will be able to receive methane carriers capable of transporting 160,000 cu m of LNG.
One quarter of France's gas supplies are in the form of LNG. GDF already has two LNG terminals—one at Montoir de Bretagne on the Atlantic coast and another at Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean Sea.
