RINA, the inspection, certification and consulting engineering company, in partnership with Asprofos, a Greek engineering consultancy, have secured a contract to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services for the Alexandroupolis Independent Natural Gas System (INGS).
INGS is owned and developed by the Greek company Gastrade, whose shareholders include Ms E Copelouzou, GasLog Cyprus Investments, DEPA Commercial, Bulgartransgaz and DESFA.
The project will consist of a permanently moored FSRU and a pipeline system of 28 km connecting the unit to the Greek National Natural Gas Transmission System (NNGTS).
With a storage capacity of 153,500 cu m, the FSRU will be stationed in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea, about 17.6 km southwest of the town of Alexandroupolis in northeast Greece.
It will have nominal gas send out rate of 625,000 cu m per hour and a peak (without redundancy) gas send out rate of up to 944,000 cu m per hour.
The project is being financed through own resources with co-financing from public funds, the National Bank of Greece and shareholder equity. Public funds will be provided through the Greek Public Investment Programme, partly through national participation and partly through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
This terminal is a fast-track project, with the FSRU scheduled to be online by the end of 2023. RINA and Asprofos will ensure that the project’s contractual requirements in terms of expected performance, quality, safety and planning are met.
As well as supporting the owner on technical and managerial planning and oversight the two partners will act as an interface, through a multi-disciplinary team of experts covering the different needs of the project.
