PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) – France plans, in partnership with notably TotalEnergies TTEF.PA and GRTGaz, the Engie subsidiary ENGIE.PA, to install a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in the port of Le Havre, wrote the daily Les Echos on its website on Saturday, citing several sources.
This preliminary project, in preparation between the two energy groups, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Haropa Port, the port establishment bringing together Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, “is not yet completely decided”, however specifies the newspaper.
“What is being studied is not a land terminal like the one carried in 2008 (and abandoned in 2011) by Gaz de Normandie with Poweo at the Antifer oil terminal near Le Havre, but a floating terminal”, write Les Echos.
According to the newspaper, the project will be operated by TotalEnergies on a 300-meter long vessel capable of storing LNG, heating it and returning it to its gaseous form so that it can be injected into the French gas pipeline network managed by GRTGaz.
It would be added to the four land import terminals of Dunkirk (North), Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique), Fos Cavaou and Fos Tonkin (Bouches-du-Rhône), also indicates the newspaper.
Contacted, the TotalEnergies and Engie groups have not reacted for the moment.
Anxious to reduce European dependence on Russian hydrocarbons after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the European Union (EU) and the United States also formalized on Friday an agreement on additional American deliveries of LNG to Europe. nL5N2VS1SN
(Written by Claude Chendjou)