Bahía de Bizkaia Gas, jointly owned by EVE and Enagás, to upgrade its infrastructure to run on CO2 and hydrogen.

Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), the LNG regasification plant jointly owned by the Basque Energy Board (EVE) and Enagás, has recently welcomed the arrival of the LNG carrier Rioja Knutsen, chartered by Naturgy, the 1,000th such vessel to berth at its facilities since the plant was commissioned in 2003. BBG, with a storage capacity of 450,000 cubic metres, is now preparing to receive other types of fluids, such as hydrogen, ammonia and CO2.

Juan Andrés Díez de Ulzurrun, President of BBG, has confirmed that the regasification plant is already working to adapt to new fluids such as ammonia, hydrogen and CO2. Specifically in relation to CO2, Díez de Ulzurrun spoke of a European project that the company hopes to take forward to ‘load and unload CO2, to be captured locally and liquefied at our plant, with five or six storage tanks and a small jetty connected to the plant for loading at the Port of Bilbao’. The gas will be loaded onto suitable vessels to be shipped to a warehouse in France, owned by the gas transport and storage company Terega.

Bahía de Bizkaia Gas, co-owned by the Basque Energy Board and the operator Enagás, both with a 50% shareholding, has three storage tanks, each one with a capacity of 150,000 m3, providing a total LNG storage capacity of 450,000 m3. The regasification (returning the LNG to a gaseous state) capacity of the plant is 800,000 Nm3/h, and the gas is subsequently fed into the general supply network for consumption.

Source: El Economista