Mobile Offshore LNG Terminal Heads for Italian Adriatic Base
A floating, full-featured terminal for liquefied natural gas is due to reach home, 15 km off Italy near Porto Levante, around Sept. 20, after a three-week journey from its construction yard in Algeciras, Spain. The owner says it is the first “offshore gravity-based structure in the world for the unloading, storage and regasification of liquefied natural gas.”
Weighing 290,000 tonnes, the 180-m-long, 88-m-wide and 47-m-tall Adriatic LNG terminal will be ballasted to the seabed 28 m down, to regasify 8 billion cu m of liquefied gas shipped from Qatar annually from next year.