A floating unit of the French group will, from September 2023, transform the LNG delivered by ships from the United States in particular.
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A new contract for the French giant. A TotalEnergies floating LNG terminal project has been selected to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Le Havre, announced the Seine-Maritime prefecture on Friday July 29, in the midst of the gas crisis linked to the war in Ukraine.
Moored in the port of Le Havre, this vessel FSRU (Floating Regasification Unit) can inject “about 10% of annual French consumption”, or up to 5 billion m3 of natural gas, according to the prefecture. It will be supplied with gas from LNG carriers coming from “possibly from Norway, Algeria, Qatar, the United States, Nigeria, Angola, or even Egypt“.
Work is expected to begin in the fall of 2022, for launch in September 2023. This “provisional project” will have “destined to be dismantled when supply tensions have been overcome”advances the prefecture.
France is currently supplied by four port LNG import terminals (two at Fos-sur-Mer, one at Montoir-de-Bretagne and one at Dunkirk) and wanted to secure this supply with a new terminal.