First delivery at Rotterdam's regasification terminal

30 September 2011 - New contracts - The Netherlands

As part of the trials being carried out prior to its entry into service, scheduled for this September, the Terminal Gate regasification terminal in the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, received its first delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on 13 June.

Representing an investment of €800m, this terminal has been built by a consortium composed of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Entrepose Contracting (VINCI Construction), Techint and Sener, in collaboration with CFE, its subsidiaries MBG, Geka and CFE Nederland, and Freyssinet, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (all three are VINCI Construction companies). The works involved building an industrial plant, two piers for the discharging of methane tankers and three LNG storage tanks. Each 50 m in height, 86 m in diameter and with a capacity of 180,000 cu. metres, these three tanks were created on a design-build basis by Entrepose Contracting and VINCI Construction Grands Projets.