On 1 January 2017, commercial operations started up at the Dunkirk regasification terminal. This commissioning draws a line under one of the largest industrial construction sites in France.
The Zeebrugge LNG Terminal has recently performed its first loadings of the Coral EnergICE. This newly built ice class vessel will be making regular calls for delivering small-scale LNG to Scandinavian ports.
The subscription window for LNG services at the Zeebrugge terminal held from 30 April to 24 May 2019 has seen a positive outcome.
The Zeebrugge LNG terminal loaded the Yenisei River vessel with LNG from the newly commissioned LNG storage tank in late December. The loading operation marked the start of the long-term contract for transshipments concluded in 2015 with Yamal Trade.
Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Pascal De Buck, Fluxys Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, today signed in Paris a Framework Agreement on small-scale LNG cooperation in the European market.
Regulated information - Fluxys Belgium holds its ordinary and extraordinary general meetings on 12 May 2020.
The joint, nationwide market area to be established in Germany will presumably start operations on 1 October 2021. This is the date the German gas transmission system operators (TSOs) have agreed with the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), the national regulatory authority. The TSOs believe that the planned timing, which coincides with the start of the gas year, is the most convenient solution for market participants from an operational perspective.
The bunkering vessel ENGIE Zeebrugge performed in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, its first deliveries of LNG (liquefied natural gas) as a marine fuel to M/V AUTO ECO and M/V AUTO ENERGY, the two new gas-propelled pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) of UECC. The LNG bunkering operations were conducted at the same time that the cargo operations for PCTCs were taking place.
Researchers at KU Leuven have developed game-changing hydrogen panels that are garnering attention from around the world. Fluxys recently installed several of these panels on the green roof of its Anderlecht lab with a view to joining forces with the university and conducting extensive tests for a year.
Hainaut-based intermunicipal company IPFH has entered into a collaboration agreement with Fluxys – a tangible way for both players to help make Europe a carbon-neutral continent by 2050, in line with the European Union's objectives.
The Belgian and Spanish natural gas infrastructure companies Fluxys and Enagás announced today that they signed an agreement to jointly sell their total stake in Swedegas, the owner and operator of the high-pressure gas grid in Sweden, to FS Gas Transport AB.
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Information on key events in the first half of 2018 and their impact on the financial situation of Fluxys Belgium:
- Regulated turnover remains constant
- Net profit totals €24.3 million (€22.9 million during the first half of 2017)
- Investments: €52.9 million, mainly relating to the construction of the fifth tank at Zeebrugge LNG terminal
- Fluxys Belgium's infrastructure confirms its role as a crossroads for the natural gas market in North-Western Europe
- Natural gas consumption on the Belgian market remains stable
- Activity increases at Zeebrugge LNG terminal
- First transshipment of LNG directly between two vessels
- Energy transition: innovative gas applications gain ground
- First successful large-scale L/H conversion
- New tariff methodologies applicable from 2020 onwards
A change is taking place in Fluxys' management team in Germany. By cordial mutual agreement, Dr Peter Drasdo will be leaving the company on 1 July 2017 to take on new challenges outside the Fluxys Group.
A change is taking place in Fluxys' management team in Germany. By cordial mutual agreement, Dr Peter Drasdo will be leaving the company on 1 July 2017 to take on new challenges outside the Fluxys Group.
A total of 4 additional truck loading bays will be built at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal to continue supporting the freight transport sector in its switch to liquefied natural gas (LNG) as low emission fuel. Carbon-neutral bio-LNG will become an option as well.
The Open Season for additional regasification capacity at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal has successfully been closed. During the binding window of the Open Season, the full 6 million tonnes per year (or c. 10.5 GWh/h) capacity on offer has been subscribed.
Gas infrastructure company Fluxys and institutional investor EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG) have entered into an agreement on the transfer of EIG’s minority stake in Brazilian gas transmission system operator TBG. Completion of the transfer is expected to take approximately two months. Both companies will also explore further strategic cooperation in Brazil’s gas infrastructure market. Fluxys is looking forward to become an industrial partner in TBG as it is a key energy infrastructure for Brazil and the company’s management and workforce are highly experienced.
Having embraced climate neutrality since its inception in 2017, Fluxys with the Gas for Climate consortium welcomes the increase in ambition level to fight climate change as reflected in the EU Green Deal.
The world’s first top category ice class LNG carrier has docked at the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal for a series of scheduled operations. The vessel will be serving the Yamal LNG production terminal under construction in North Siberia.