Spanish engineering company Ayesa has secured a contract to redesign the mooring jetty for the Enagás-operated regasification plant in Huelva.
This will allow small-scale vessels to be refueled and vessels to be loaded with LNG for subsequent ship-to-ship bunkering at the Huelva facility, Ayesa said in an emailed statement.
The mooring jetty in Huelva will be the third designed by Ayesa, following similar ones in Barcelona and Cartagena.
Stefan Pardo , Head of Oil & Gas at Ayesa, said in the statement that the company would be responsible for drafting the detailed engineering project, as well as the specifications for materials and equipment.
The adaptation of the terminal in Huelva is part of the CORE LNGas hive project, the aim of which is to promote LNG as a fuel, mainly for marine use, in the Iberian Peninsula, the statement said.
This initiative, co-financed by the European Commission, is coordinated by LNG operator Enagás and led by the Spanish state company, Puertos del Estado, which manages Spain’s state-owned ports.