Socar, Qatari firm proposals for Crete energy sufficiency issue - ENERGY PRESS

17/SEPT/2018

LNG usage and the establishment of a floating regasification terminal for gas-fueled electricity generation at power stations are the common factors of at least two proposals to be presented this week to RAE, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, as possible solutions for the Crete’s looming energy shortage problem as of 2020.

An exemption to EU law concerning power station emission limits for local high-polluting units, such as those operating on Crete, is set to expire in December, 2019.

An Athens-Crete interconnection plan that would resolve resulting power insufficiency issues on the island has fallen behind schedule and prompted the need for solutions until the project’s launch.

Spain’s Reganosa wins Malta LNG management deal - LNG WORLD SHIPPING

Malta took delivery of its first LNG cargoes last week

Mon 16 Jan 2017 by Karen Thomas

Galician firm Reganosa is to maintain and operate Malta’s Delimara LNG regasification plant, which will start commercial operations within weeks, under an agreement with ElectroGas Malta (EGM).

Last week, the first LNG cargoes arrived in Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta to be stored in a floating storage unit (FSU) for delivery to the nearby Delimara gas plant. FSU Armada LNG Mediterran aarrived in Malta last autumn.

Bumi Armada converted Mitsui OSK’s 1985-built, 125,000m³ LNG carrier Wakabu Maru into an FSU to supply LNG to the new 215MW combined-cycle gas plant at Delimara. There have been conflicting reports over when the power station will open. A Reganosa spokeswoman told LNG World Shipping that this will happen “within weeks”.