An initial fleet out of 40 specially constructed ISO containers, designed and built by Chart Ferox, was used recently to realise the LNG ambitions on Madeira Island.
The fleet was used to supply approximately 500m³ of LNG by Grupo Sousa – Gáslink Gás Natural S.A to Madeira Electricity Company’s Thermo Electric Power Plant, CTVIII.
The first LNG shipment was loaded into 14 Chart Ferox ISO containers at Sines LNG Terminal on Portugal’s mainland, and transported through the Port of Lisbon more than 950km by sea, before a further road journey to Portugal’s newest satellite LNG plant – and the only one located on an island.
This process of delivering natural gas to regions not connected to a national grid is known as a ‘virtual pipeline’.
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