Shell, ERG to build Sicily LNG terminal

Shell Energy Europe BV and ERG Power & Gas SPA have signed an agreement to develop a 400-million-euro LNG regasification terminal in Sicily.

Feb. 25, 2005

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 24 -- Shell Energy Europe BV and ERG Power & Gas SPA have signed an agreement to develop a 400-million-euro LNG regasification terminal in Sicily. The terminal will be in the Priolo-Augusta-Melilli industrial area in Syracuse Province.

The terminal will have design capacity of 8 billion cu m/year of gas.

Shell expects to start construction in 2007 "subject to the permitting process" and begin operations in 2010.