Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal

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Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal is a liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal in Galicia, Spain.

Location

It is located in Mugardos, La Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

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Project Details

• Owner: Endesa (21%), Gasifica (21%), Tojeiro Group (18%), Sonatrach (10%), the Galician government (10%), Caixa Galicia (10%), Banco Pastor (5%), Caixanova (5%)
• Location: Mugardos, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain
• Coordinates: 43.4613, -8.2395 (exact)
• Capacity: 2.6 mtpa
• Status: Operating
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2007

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Galicia, Spain. It commenced operations in November 2007.

Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal includes two storage tanks, each with a capacity of 150,000 m³, a berth capable of accepting vessels up to 140,000 m³, and two seawater vaporizers, as well as shipping and trucking loading facilities. The total project cost was approximately €400 million.

Between November 2007 and April 2015, Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal loaded 26,000 trucks and had received 265 LNG carriers, providing 185 unloading operations and 80 loading operations.

In July 2016, Reganosa Ferrol LNG Terminal received its first shipment of LNG from the United States. The 138,000 m³ capacity Sestao Knutsen delivered its shipment from the Sabine Pass liquefaction terminal in Louisiana.

In April 2017, the LNG terminal received its first Q-Flex carrier, the Al Utoriya, which has a capacity of 216,203 m³.

Opposition

In June 2012, Spain's Supreme Court ruled in favor of citizens' groups, upholding a 2008 ruling by the Galicia Superior Court, which found that the city impermissibly changed its zoning code before completing an environmental impact statement. The lawsuit was filed by San Esteban Neighbours Association, the Grouping of Ferrol Urban Zone Neighbours Associations and the Cruceiro de Meha.

In response to the Supreme Court ruling, environmental group Ferrol Estuary Citizens Emergency Committee stated, “This ruling confirms, just as we have been arguing, that the Reganosa gas plant is an installation that has been operating illegally for more than four years.” It argued the LNG terminal was a threat to residents and the estuary ecosystem.

Mugardos city officials were expected to quickly issue a revised permit for the LNG terminal, preventing any impact to its operations.

Opposition groups have also cited the low utilization rates among Spain's LNG terminals to call into question the necessity of such extensive LNG infrastructure. According to Food and Water Europe, "Since 2008, all LNG terminals (except for Mugardos) have been expanded and the total regasification capacity has increased by 8%, despite a decline in gas demand...even though the utilisation rate of Spain’s LNG regasification capacity was at only ~23% on average between January 2012 and March 2019, same as the low EU average during the same time period! The need to have so much LNG regasification capacity is questionable and best illustrated with the El Musel LNG Terminal (7bcm/y and a 300,000m³ storage capacity) which was completed in 2012 and then directly put into 'hibernation', 'until demand picks up'. The terminal has not been used since then. Despite large underutilization, Spain was the 5th biggest LNG importer with the 5th biggest liquefaction capacities worldwide in 2018, and for both cases number 1 in Europe (followed by France). Since at least 2016, Spain repeatedly imported cargoes of fracked US gas through its LNG terminals."

Expansion 1 Project Details

• Owner: Endesa (21%), Gasifica (21%), Tojeiro Group (18%), Sonatrach (10%), the Galician government (10%), Caixa Galicia (10%), Banco Pastor (5%), Caixanova (5%)
• Location: Mugardos, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain
• Coordinates: 43.4613, -8.2395 (exact)
• Capacity:
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2020

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Expansion 2 Project Details

• Owner: Endesa (21%), Gasifica (21%), Tojeiro Group (18%), Sonatrach (10%), the Galician government (10%), Caixa Galicia (10%), Banco Pastor (5%), Caixanova (5%)
• Location: Mugardos, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain
• Coordinates: 43.4613, -8.2395 (exact)
• Capacity:
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2022

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Expansion 3 Project Details

• Owner: Endesa (21%), Gasifica (21%), Tojeiro Group (18%), Sonatrach (10%), the Galician government (10%), Caixa Galicia (10%), Banco Pastor (5%), Caixanova (5%)
• Location: Mugardos, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain
• Coordinates: 43.4613, -8.2395 (exact)
• Capacity: 3.6 bcm/y
• Status: Proposed
• Type: Import
• Start Year: 2023

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Expansion Projects Background

There are three proposed expansion projects with operational start dates in 2020, 2022, and 2023.