Saipem finished its pipelaying job related to Gastrade’s Alexandroupolis LNG terminal in August 2023. Two months later, the European Commission, under EU State aid rules, gave its seal of approval for a €106 million Greek measure to support the completion of the construction of Gastrade’s DNV-classed liquefied natural gas terminal in Alexandroupolis.
The Italian giant has contributed to the construction of the Independent Natural Gas System (INGS) off the coast of Alexandroupolis in Greece, which enabled it to assist the country in securing access to new alternative LNG supply sources with a recently converted floating storage regasification unit (FSRU).
The Alexandroupolis, former 2010-built LNG carrier GasLog Chelsea, was converted to an FSRU at Seatrium shipyard in Singapore in 2023. Following the ten-month conversion, the unit sailed away from Singapore on November 26, 2023, and entered the waters of the Thracian Sea of Greece on December 7, 2023. Upon its arrival in Greece, the FSRU was anchored through a spread 12-point mooring system.
The FSRU Alexandroupolis was anticipated to be connected to the National Natural Gas Transmission System of Greece via a 28-kilometer-long pipeline developed by Corinth Pipeworks, a steel pipes segment of Cenergy Holdings. The commissioning cargo was delivered to the FSRU on February 18 onboard GasLog Hong Kong LNG carrier.
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