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Elengy launches open season

at Fos Cavaou LNG terminal

PROJECTS & FRENCH LNG operator Elengy has launched an 4 bcm per year of capacity.
COMPANIES open season for subscriptions for regasification
capacity at its 8.5bn cubic metre per year regas- LNG bunkering
ification terminal in Fos Cavaou in the south of Marseille is also set to become a hub for LNG
France. bunkering next year. French oil major Total
The company is offering capacity between announced on March 25 it had agreed to provide
2022 and 2030 and possibly after 2030 as well, it 45,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of the super-cooled
said on March 23, noting that it was responding gas for bunkering cruise ships owned by Swiss-
to “a high level of market interest expressed over based MSC Cruises in the port.
the past few months.” It aims to make available Total’s first bunkering vessel commenced
additional primary capacity through technical operations in October 2019, but is primarily Marseille is also
and regulatory debottlenecking and a capacity based in Northern Europe. It mostly refuels
expansion beyond 2030. containerships belonging to French cargo ship- set to become
Some 1 bcm per year of capacity is already ping firm CMA CGM that travel between Asia
available at the terminal until March 31, 2030, and Europe. a hub for LNG
and is allocated on a first come, first served MSC is due to receive the first of three LNG-
basis. The new open season will also offer 2.5 fuelled cruise ships in 2022, and Total will bunkering next
bcm per year of capacity from January 2024 and refuel them while they are operating on Medi- year.
4.5 bcm per year from April 2030 until 2045 or terranean routes. It will use a second bunkering
later. vessel with a 18,600 cubic metre storage capac-
Elengy will first hold a non-binding call for ity, currently under construction in China’s
interest, expected to run for three months, in Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard.
order to access the market needs, followed by “We are proud to be developing the first LNG
a binding phase that will run for three weeks in bunker supply chain in France, at the port of
the second half of 2021. Marseille-Fos, together with shipping industry
The Fos Cavaou terminal was launched leaders such as MSC Cruises with whom we
in 2010 and has an LNG storage capacity nurture a long-lasting partnership worldwide
of 330,000 cubic metres. It is one of three in the field of bunkering services,” Total’s pres-
regasification facilities operated by Elengy, ident for marketing and services, Alexis Vovk,
alongside another in Fos Tonkin and a third commented. “Total will continue to step up
in Montoir-de-Bretagne. An open season investments in LNG bunkering to ultimately
at the Montoir-de-Bretagne plant last year reach its target of serving more than 10% of the
resulted in Qatar Petroleum booking almost global market.”™

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