GDF Suez unit awarded LNG supply deal

LNGeneration, a GDF Suez unit dedicated to transported LNG, said it has signed a contract with Lactalis Group over 18 months and relating to the supply of the Bouvron-based cheese company with liquefied natural gas.

Selected after a call-to-tender, LNGeneration is offering an overall energy solution combining transport, storage, regasification and supply in LNG for the Bouvron site, which is still not connected to the natural gas network and has been consuming heavy fuel oil.

LNGeneration has thus been able to meet one of the main expectations expressed by Lactalis, namely having short-term access to a more competitive and economical source of energy, prior to a connection to the natural gas network, a project currently being studied and envisaged for within the next two years.

In under six months, LNGeneration has put in place an LNG storage and regasification unit on the site of its client. LNG is transported by tanker-trucks from the Elengy terminal of Montoir-de-Bretagne, which is about forty kilometres away, to the industrial site where it is stored.

As it is needed, LNGeneration vapourises it and delivers it to Lactalis in gaseous and odorised form, like natural gas from the network. The installation is equipped with sensors which order resupply automatically.

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