FSRU Toscana Arrived in Italy

Towed by two tugs, “FRSU Toscana” is arrived in Italy, in the waters of Tuscany Region in front of the coast between Livorno and Pisa. The Terminal sailed away from Malta on Friday July, 26, where he made a scheduled stop necessary to  finalized some mechanical activities in preparation of installation and testing. The Terminal, once operative, will have a regasification capacity of 3.75 billion cubic meters a year, about 4% of the national demand.
The next steps
The operative procedures will be the following: the Terminal will be first anchored to the seabed through the 6 anchors already installed. It will then connect to the subsea pipeline to transport the regasified gas, completed by Snam Rete Gas. It will follow a phase of testing with LNG onboard the Terminal. Its estimated that testing activities will be completed in about three months.
Once completed the phase of installation, it is scheduled for the end of August the arrival of the first LNG carrier. The starting of commercial activity in operation is therefore planned by the last quarter of 2013.
Info for the start of the open procedure for the conferment of the regasification capacity
From April 1, in the section of the website Commercial Area is available on the regasification terminal necessary to enable you to start, in the coming  months, public procedures offer regasification capacity to stakeholders on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis and such to ensure freedom of access on equal terms in accordance with Resolution 272/2013. These procedures will  allow for the reservation of regasification capacity on a monthly basis for the next thermal year (or part of it) and on an annual or multiyear for the next thermal years.
Statements
We are certainly excited about the arrival of FSRU Toscana in Livorno said the OLT CEO Peter Carolan (E.ON) and firmly sure that this initiative represents an important opportunity for socio-economic development of the territory. Weʼll be focused on safety and environment. Moreover, an on going monitory of the performances of our Terminal, will be carry on by the competent Institutions.
Even Valter Pallano, OLT CEO (Iren), did not fail to emphasize his  satisfaction after years of work: This project has particular importance in the evolution of the national strategy on imports of gas both from the point of view of growth and diversification of existing infrastructures and for the development of opportunities for access to new emerging markets of Liquefied Natural Gas.

OLT Offshore, August 1, 2013