Tugs Tow $900-million LNG Plant From Spain to Italy’s Adriatic - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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The world’s first mobile offshore liquid- natural-gas terminal is due to reach home, 15 kilometers off Italy near Porto Levante, around Sept. 20 after a three-week journey from its construction yard in Algeciras, Spain. Weighing 290,000 tonnes, the 180-m-long, 88-m-wide and 47-m-tall Adriatic LNG terminal will be ballasted 28 m to the seabed. It will be able to regasify 8 billion cu m of liquefied gas shipped from Qatar annually, beginning next year. Norway’s Aker Kvaerner A.S. managed construction under a $900-million EPC contract awarded in May 2004 by owner Terminale GNL Adriatico Srl, a consortium of energy companies. Spain’s Acciona Infrastructure S.A. built the prestressed concrete caisson and some equipment under a ...

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