Enagás has awarded Endesa the logistics services for the El Musel liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Gijón. This step ends the binding phase of the capacity allocation process (Open Season). Total 13 offers have been received between June 5 and 30period during which this last part of the process has been developed.
The logistics services offered for this infrastructure are the operations of unloading, storage and loading of LNG. Within the regulated access regime, the El Musel plant contemplates a minimum regasification for the correct management of the terminal, as well as the tanker loading service.
The terminal already received its first ship a few weeks ago, the Cool Racer -with a capacity of 174,000 m-, which carried out its first unloading, a necessary prior step from a technical point of view before the commercial start-up of the terminal, which will begin next July 31. The Gijón plant will be able to contribute up to 8 billion cubic meters of LNG capacity per year to the security of European energy supply.
Will allow the berthing of ships between 50,000 and 266,000 cubic meters, has two 150,000 cubic meter LNG storage capacity tanks, two tanker loading bays with a capacity to load a maximum of 9GWh/d and a maximum emission capacity of 800,000 Nm³/h. On February 28, Enagás and Reganosa signed an agreement to acquire by Enagás the 130 kilometer per hour network of Reganosa gas pipelines and this 25% of the El Musel Plant.
This operation will make it possible to take advantage of their synergies and work together on the services offered by the plant and on new collaboration possibilities to reinforce security of supply and advance the decarbonisation objectives of Spain and Europe.