The FSRU Toscana terminal departed Marseille earlier this week following repairs to its anchoring system and is being towed south to western Italy, OLT Offshore LNG Toscana said Sept. 30.
It was scheduled to reach its offshore location 22 km from the coastline between Livorno and Pisa on Oct. 2. Here, it will be re-moored and prepared for reconnection to Italy’s nation gas network.
Initially, after being taken offline, the terminal underwent maintenance activities at Genoa in June. It was later transferred to the Chantier Naval of San Giorgio del Porto shipyard in Marseille to complete intervention work to replace the bearing of the anchoring system.
Once the terminal has been reconnected, a cooling-down phase of the plant will follow, accompanied by the discharge of an LNG cargo. Commercial operations should resume on Nov. 24.
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, controlled by Snam and Igneo Infrastructure Partners, is connected to the national grid through a 36.5-km-long pipeline, operated and managed by Snam. About 29.5 km of this line is at sea, 5 km in the floodway, and the remaining 2 km is on dry land.
FSRU Toscana has a regasification capacity of 5 Bcm/year.
