Le Havre FSRU
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Le Havre FSRU Terminal is a proposed floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) terminal for LNG import in the port of Le Havre in Normandy, France.[1]
Location
The map below shows the approximate location of Le Havre FSRU Terminal.
Project Details
- Operator:
- Owner: TotalEnergies[2]
- Parent company: TotalEnergies[2]
- Vessel:
- Vessel operator:
- Vessel owner: TotalEnergies[2]
- Vessel parent company: TotalEnergies[2]
- Location: Port of Le Havre, Normandy, France
- Coordinates: 49.4622283932675, 0.04295842576 (approximate)
- Capacity: 5 bcm/y[3]
- Cost:
- FID status: Pre-FID
- Status: Proposed
- Type: Import
- Start Year: 2023[4]
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcm/y = billion cubic meters per year
Background
In March 2022, the French business newspaper Les Echos reported that the French government had tasked TotalEnergies and a subsidiary of Engie with installing an FSRU terminal in the port of Le Havre in north-west France, and that talks between the government and the companies were underway. This is one of several such proposals to have appeared across Europe as a result of the war in Ukraine focusing attention on LNG to replace Russian gas supplies coming via pipeline.[5][1]
French gas system operator GRTgaz also confirmed the development, and said that realisation of the FSRU could allow France to increase its regasification capacity by almost 4.2 bcm/y and reduce its dependence on Russian gas.[6] It was also reported that a decision on the project would be taken "within weeks".[7]
In June 2022, the incoming French prime minister Elisabeth Borne announced that the Le Havre terminal would be connected in 2023 and would "cover almost 10% of French gas consumption".[8] At the beginning of July 2022, French media reported that a final investment decision on the project would be taken "in the coming weeks".[9] TotalEnergies is looking to deploy one of the two FSRUs it owns at Le Havre.[2]
In August 2022, French law no. 2022-1158 "on emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power" stated that the "operating period of the floating LNG terminal ... may not exceed five years".[10] It was also reported that the French government had formally selected TotalEnergies to install the FSRU with an import capacity of 5 bcm/year. Construction work by TotalEnergies and GRTgaz should start by the end of 2022, it was reported.[3]
Opposition
In October 2022, the Climate Collective of Le Havre (Le collectif Climat du Havre) called for a public debate of the project and launched a petition in opposition to the terminal.[11]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 France wants to build floating LNG terminal at Le Havre – Les Echos, Reuters, Mar. 26, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Stuart Elliott, France's TotalEnergies eyes FSRU deployment at German port of Lubmin, S&P Global, Jul. 15, 2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 France selects TotalEnergies to install a 5 bcm/year FSRU in Le Havre, Enerdata, Aug. 2, 2022
- ↑ Sanja Pekic, TotalEnergies looks to deploy FSRU at Lubmin port in Germany, Offshore Energy, Jul. 18, 2022
- ↑ Vincent Collen, Claire Garnier, La France va se doter d'un nouveau terminal d'importation de gaz liquéfié, Les Echos, Mar. 26, 2022
- ↑ European Natural Gas Prices Strong on Weather, Russian Supply, Moving Above Asia Spot Price France wants to build floating LNG terminal at Le Havre – Les Echos, Natural Gas Intelligence, Apr. 1, 2022
- ↑ Sophie Tetrel, France to decide “within weeks” on new LNG terminal, Montel, Mar. 29, 2022
- ↑ Paul Messad, France to examine gas tariff shield ‘in the coming days’, Euractiv, Jun. 23, 2022
- ↑ Antoine Vermeersch, Ce que l'on sait du futur terminal flottant d'importation de gaz naturel liquéfié au Havre, L'Usine Nouvelle, Jul. 1, 2022
- ↑ "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000046186723". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
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- ↑ Contre le projet de terminal méthanier flottant dans le port du Havre, des opposants réclament un débat public. France Bleu. October 17, 2022.