LNG

Elengy, the operator of three terminals in Western and Southern France at Montoir-de-Bretagne, Fos Tonkin and Fos Cavaou has increased the LNG trucking capabilities at the Fos Cavaou facility located west of the Mediterranean port of Marseille.

The Managing Director of Elengy, Nelly Nicoli, inaugurated the two new tank-truck loading bays at the Fos Cavaou terminal.

The LNG fuel expansion event was also attended by René Raimondi, Mayor of the town of Fos, Hervé Martel, President of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseilles, and Régis Passerieux, Sub-Prefect of the district of Istres.

The new loading bays at Fos Cavaou now give the West Med terminal four bays with the capacity to offer 22,000 slots a year.

“LNG constitutes an immediate and effective response to the challenges of the energy transition in the road transport sector by reducing carbon-dioxide emissions,” stated Nicoli.

Commissioning

“With this commissioning, Elengy will continue with the development of its infrastructure to provide reliable and sustainable access to LNG for road transport,” added Nicoli.

“The two new bays of Fos Cavaou represented an investment of €10 million ($10.8M),” she stated.

Elengy has been expanding LNG truck-loading bays since 2013 at the Montoir-de-Bretagne and the Fos Tokin and Fos Cavaou terminals.

Over the past 10 years around 70,000 trucks have been loaded with LNG for the gradually expanding fuel market in the European Union.

Ship movements

Elengy’s three regulated terminals offer market flexibility for the unloading or loading of any type of LNG carriers as well as trans-shipment services.

The company’s LNG carrier traffic amounts to around 330 ships per annum at the three facilities.

Elengy added that during 2023 LNG had also been loaded into ISO containers at the Fos terminals for transportation by rail.

The company said it was also developing its services by investing in the development of bio-LNG made from waste to reduce the environmental footprint of the fuel.

France is moving ahead with its fifth LNG import terminal with a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) being deployed at the port of Le Havre on the northeast coast of Normandy where there had previously been an onshore facility that handled deliveries of LNG from Algeria for Gaz de France.

France’s Commission de Régulation de l'Energie (CRE) has given the go-ahead for a further increase in the cost of imported natural gas, leading to an immediate jump in regulated domestic sales tariffs as costs rise for utilities all over Europe.

GRTgaz, the French natural gas network operator and owner of LNG import terminals, has issued a report on gas flows and imports and exports during the Covid-19 crisis and the evolution of consumption and demand as gas-fired power stations begin to restart.

Elengy, the French import terminal operator, said the Montoir-de-Bretagne facility in Western France was fully booked between 2023 and 2035 with only a small portion of capacity available in 2021 and 2022.

GRTgaz, the French natural gas network operator and whose subsidiary manages three LNG import terminals, said no supply problems were foreseen this winter season and added that send-outs of LNG into the system had doubled over the past year.

The French Atlantic Coast Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG import terminal said its call for capacity subscriptions currently ongoing will enter its final binding phase in October 2019.

French utility Engie, the parent company of France's network operator and LNG terminals owner, said its US$8.6 billion joint bid with a Canadian fund won the competitive tender conducted by Brazilian energy company Petrobras for the sale of the South American nation’s largest gas transmission network.

GRTgaz, the French natural gas pipeline network operator whose subsidiary Elengy operates three LNG import terminals, has outlined its 10-year development plan, including expansion and upgrades at the Montoir-de-Bretagne facility on the West Coast and at the two terminals near Marseille, where capacity will be more than doubled.

May 29 (LNGJ) - French LNG import terminal operator Elengy has named Laurence Borie-Bancel as its new Chief Executive from June 1 in succession to Martin Jahan de Lestang, who has been appointed to another position within parent company Engie. Borie-Bancel, aged 51, started her career in 1989 at Gaz de France, a predecessor company to both Engie and Elengy, where she worked on infrastructure ventures. “She developed an expertise in this area, working on various projects. In particular, she worked for Tokyo Gas and Osaka Gas in Japan as part of an LNG cooperation programme and was involved in the revamping of the Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG terminal located in France and in the development of the Fos Cavaou LNG terminal,” said Elengy. Borie-Bancel is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Ingenieurs de Genie Chimique in Toulouse.