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Completed the first operation of drainage of GNL in new terminal FSRU Tuscany
The commercial operations will begin within the end of November
September 9, 2013
Yesterday the first operation of which liquified natural gas drainage is completed in the terminal FSRU Tuscany that has arrived in Tuscan waters 30th July where it is installed to 22 kilometers to the wide one of the coast between Livorno and Pisa and therefore is connected to the submarine conduct for the transport of the rigassificato gas to earth.
Offshore OLT LNG Tuscany, the society participated from Group E.ON, Group Iren, Offshore Golar Tuscany and OLT Energy Tuscany that the floating terminal of regasification has realized, has explained that the activity of drainage, begun on 2 September from the metaniera LNG Leo, perfectly has been concluded and that such activity has included also the mooring operations/unmoors between ship and terminal, connection of the cargo arms, gas introduction in the reserviors, cooling of the reserviors and cargo of a GNL volume pairs to 109.000 cubic metres.
The corrected conclusion of the operations is got ahead under the supervision of the Harbour office and is validated by the certificatore agency RINA that has supplied to the release of a certificate.
Offshore OLT LNG Tuscany has specified that for the completion of the test activities they will be necessary about three months and that the consequent start of the commercial operations is previewed therefore within the end of November. Operatively, the system will have an ability to regasification of 3,75 billion cubic metres the year, about 4% of the national requirements.
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Yesterday the first operation of which liquified natural gas drainage is completed in the terminal FSRU Tuscany that has arrived in Tuscan waters 30th July where it is installed to 22 kilometers to the wide one of the coast between Livorno and Pisa and therefore is connected to the submarine conduct for the transport of the rigassificato gas to earth.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
