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GATE TErminAl

COMPANY PROFILE

2015

+31 (0) 181 799 000 | www.gate.nl

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Gate swings widerEditorial: Colin Chinery

The opening four years ago of the Gate terminal in Rotterdam was a major step in supplying North West Europe with LNG. Now a further breakthough is in sight with work starting on a new infrastructure that will add break bulk facilities to the expanding portfolio.

Whether through c l imate

issues or the push for energy

d ivers i f icat ion, natura l gas is

seen as the foss i l fue l o f the

fu ture . And LNG’s increas ing

ro le in Europe’s energy mix is

underscored wi th the recent

s tar t on a new mul t i user

LNG break bu lk in f rast ructure

ad jo in ing the €800m Gate

termina l on the Maasv lakte in

Rot terdam.

Opened in 2011, Gate –

‘Gas Access to Europe’ ,

the Nether land’s f i rs t LNG

termina l , impor ts , s tores, re-

gas i f ies and de l i vers l iquef ied

natura l gas in to nor thwest

Europe’s gr id .

The new fac i l i t ies , expected

to be operat iona l by mid-

2016, are based on a mul t i -

user serv ice mode l . Open to

a l l in terested par t ies they wi l l

have a max imum capac i ty o f

280 ber th ing s lo ts a year.

Break-bu lk in f rast ructure

and serv ices wi l l increase LNG

bunker ing fue l capac i ty in

Nor thern Europe – spec ia l i sed

LNG bunker ing vesse ls are

be ing deve loped to enab le

sh ip- to-sh ip t ransfers - and

ease the sp l i t up o f la rge-

sca le LNG sh ipments in to

manageable por t ions for smal l

o f f - take loads. A new je t ty

w i l l make LNG more wide ly

ava i lab le as a t ranspor t fue l

fo r vesse ls in nor thwest

Europe.

I t ’s a deve lopment that w i l l

acce lerate the d is t r ibut ion

and use o f LNG as a c leaner

fue l a l te rnat ive for mar i t ime

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vesse ls , fe r r ies , t rucks

and indust r ia l app l icat ions

throughout Nor th West

Europe.

MOTORWAYS OF THE SEAThe pro ject is f inanced wi th

€38m f rom the European

Investment Bank, w i th the

remainder suppl ied by a

synd icate o f four banks under

an agreement s igned in la te

October las t year. Bes ides

that there is fund ing f rom the

EU’s ‘Motorways o f the Sea’

concept , wh ich is co- f inanced

by the EU Trans European

Transpor t Networks (TEN-T) .

She l l , the launch ing

customer for the expans ion,

has commit ted to buy capac i ty

f rom Gate termina l , a move

that e f fect ive ly underwrote

investment in the new pro ject .

“We are p leased to have

reached th is agreement , ” sa id

Maar ten Wetse laar, She l l ’s

execut ive v ice pres ident .

“LNG is a v iab le opt ion for

fue l l ing c leaner and more

susta inab le t ranspor t . We

be l ieve LNG wi l l fo rm a b igger

par t o f the t ranspor t fue l mix

in the fu ture , and th is pro ject

demonst rates our conf idence

in LNG as a fue l opt ion.”

W i th an in i t ia l th roughput

capac i ty o f 12 b i l l ion cub ic

meters per year - and wi th

the opt ion to increase to 16

bcm – Gate was bu i l t by the

s tate-owned gas in f rast ructure

company Gasun ie and

Nether lands-based g loba l

independent tank s torage

prov ider, Vopak, and seen by

the Dutch government as par t

o f i ts s t ra tegy to ho ld on to

the Nether land’s pos i t ion as a

key European gas hub.

Rot terdam is Europe’s

b iggest por t w i th an annua l

turnover o f €600m, used by

32,000 ocean-go ing vesse ls

and 87,000 in land vesse ls a

year and employ ing more than

90,000 people . W i th an easy

ent ry route to and f rom the

Nor th Sea, Rot terdam was an

obv ious locat ion for a super-

s ized LNG por t and termina l .

Four years on, th is la test

deve lopment by Gasun ie

and Vopak is “an innovat ive

LNG break bu lk concept , ”

says Gate termina l Manag ing

D i rector D ick Meurs.

“Upgrad ing the LNG hub

capabi l i t ies o f Gate termina l

w i l l enab le our customers to

supply LNG as c leaner fue l

for t ranspor t , sh ipp ing and

indust r ia l app l icat ions.”

And as A l la rd Caste le in ,

CEO of Por t o f Rot terdam

Author i ty says, i t f i ts in to a

genera l s t ra tegy a imed at

s t rengthen ing Rot terdam’s

GATE TErminAl

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pos i t ion as the most impor tant

European LNG hub.

ROTTERDAM’S ACE CARD“Bes ides the p ipe l ine

connect ions, our log is t ica l

l inks for the European smal l

sca le market – whether by

r i ver, coasta l sh ipp ing, t rucks

and in fu ture perhaps by

t ra in are ava i lab le and very

compet i t i ve , ” says Mr Meurs.

“A l together i t g ives the Por t

o f Rot terdam a very s t rong

st ra teg ic pos i t ion.

“Rot terdam is one o f the

main la rger bunker markets

in Europe - that ’s the s tar t ing

po int . And we don’t have to

deve lop the in f rast ructure

because i t ’s a l ready in p lace.

So i t ’s a very s t rong po int to

have th is new termina l here

and p lay a lead ing ro le in

the d is t r ibut ion o f LNG for

the smal l sca le market in to

Europe; a ded icated fac i l i t y for

smal l sca le sh ips f rom say 500

to 20,000 cub ic metres.

“ In the end, i f you want to

d is t r ibute LNG then you must

have re l iab i l i t y bu i l t in to the

supply system for the benef i t

o f customers, and th is is

why we are set t ing up th is

ded icated fac i l i t y. ”

The use o f LNG as a fue l i s

expected to grow substant ia l l y

fo l lowing the in t roduct ion

ear l ie r th is year o f s t r ingent

new emiss ion regu la t ions

(SECA) for the mar ine sector

in the Nor th Sea and the Ba l t ic

Sea.

By us ing LNG as a fue l ,

barges, coasters , fe r r ies , as

we l l as heavy duty t rucks, can

reduce the i r carbon d iox ide

(CO2) emiss ions by up to 20%

and n i t rogen ox ide (NOx)

emiss ions by up to 85%, whi le

reduc ing su lphur and par t ic le

emiss ions to a lmost zero.

Reasons persuas ive enough

for the Dutch government

and the European Un ion to

encourage the deve lopment o f

l iquef ied natura l gas.

But i t has not been a

smooth journey. S ix months

before Gate came on st ream,

a tsunami t r iggered by an

ear thquake off the coast o f

Japan, took the l i ves o f tens

o f thousands, and caus ing

a catast roph ic fa i lu re at the

Fukush ima 2 nuc lear power

p lant .

Three o f i ts s ix reactors

mel ted down in the b iggest

nuc lear d isaster s ince

Chernoby l in 1986, leav ing the

wor ld ’s th i rd la rgest economy

re l iant on LNG to f i l l i ts energy

gap.

S ince then p lans to phase

out nuc lear power in the next

few decades have made the

ro le and importance of LNG

increas ing ly impor tant in

Japan’s energy s t ra tegy.

FUKUSHIMA – AND AFTER”Fukush ima changed the

g loba l energy market a lo t , ”

says Mr Meurs, who jo ined

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pro ject was de l i vered, a home

return a f ter ten years work ing

in Lat in Amer ica wi th P&O

Nedl loyd, Maersk and Vopak.

“W i th Japan buy ing in to

LNG, energy pr ices went up

s ign i f icant ly, and for Europe in

genera l th is brought a change

in the market dynamics.”

For Gate and other European

termina ls i t has meant a h igh

leve l o f unut i l i sed s torage.

But now the dynamics are

chang ing aga in , w i th LNG

pr ices on the wor ld ’s la rgest

market , the USA, co l laps ing

fo l lowing the deve lopment o f

ind igenous sha le gas.

“A l though we a lways

had LNG in the tanks, re-

gas i f icat ion became less

at t ract ive , and so we dec ided

to encourage customers to

deve lop more opt iona l i t ies

in the termina l . Th is is what

we have been do ing s ince

2011, and we are s t i l l in that

process.”

Re-pos i t ion ing began wi th

adaptat ion to je t t ies and

a sh i f t to a hub termina l

concept . “For th is we had to

add some serv ices, s tar t ing

wi th fac i l i t ies enab l ing the

ber th ing o f smal le r sh ips

at our two main je t t ies and

increas ing our f lex ib i l i t y there.

We can now have sh ips o f

around 6,000 cub ic metres

and up to 15,000 cub ic metres

for LNG d is t r ibut ion by sea to

Nor th West Europe.

“Th is was implemented

in 2013, and in 2014 we

opened a t ruck load ing bay,

operat iona l now for just over

a year. Ear ly th is year we

dec ided to make a fur ther

investment in t rans-sh ipp ing

serv ices to enab le LNG

t ransfers f rom sh ip- to-sh ip

wi thout go ing through the

termina l and our tanks, and

th is w i l l become ava i lab le in

the second ha l f o f th is year. ”

W i th LNG powered sh ipp ing

and road t ranspor t pro jects

get t ing f inanc ia l back ing in

the ‘TEN-T Programme’ ,

the la test Gate pro ject is

a lso seen as an important

s tep in ach iev ing the goa ls

o f the ‘Green Dea l Rh ine

and Wadden’ , a par tnersh ip

between the Dutch

government , bus iness and

knowledge inst i tu tes

a imed at promot ing green

growth.

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“The market

is sub ject to env i ronmenta l

pressure and emiss ion

rest r ic t ions and LNG is a

very v iab le a l te rnat ive both

in terms of compet i t i veness

and ava i lab i l i t y and of course

env i ronmenta l impact . So i t

has a l l the e lements to be a

very good a l te rnat ive ,

espec ia l l y for the sh ipp ing

sector. ”

THE BIG CHANGEThe b ig change says Mr

Meurs, w i l l come i f the g loba l

sh ipp ing sector changes

to LNG. In ternat iona l co-

ord inat ion is increas ing, and

last month came the news that

Rot terdam and S ingapore are

to

co-

operate

on LNG

bunker ing as par t

o f an in i t ia l dea l cover ing

in format ion exchange on

mar ine serv ices.

S ingapore, the wor ld ’s

la rgest bunker ing por t , has

s tepped up s imi la r co-

operat ion ar rangements,

inc lud ing a 2013 dea l w i th

Be lg ium’s Antwerp Por t

Author i ty and the Por t o f

Zeebrugge to s tandard ise LNG

bunker ing s tandards.

“You need LNG ava i lab le

for bunker ing in many por ts ,

and the Por t o f Rot terdam has

an important ro le in genera l ,

l i a is ing wi th other main por ts

in the wor ld and ass is t ing in

terms of shar ing exper ience

and pract ices to enab le them

to o ffe r s imi la r serv ices

in the medium term

and he lp the g loba l

sh ipp ing sector

make the requ i red

t rans i t ions.”

Europe

imported just

33 mi l l ion

tonnes o f LNG

in 2014, fa r

be low i ts impor t

capac i ty o f 100

mi l l ion tonnes

per annum as

t rader ’s d iver ted

cargoes to h igher-

pay ing As ian

markets .

But a recent s lump

in As ian demand

has ra ised hopes that

Europe may at t ract more

cargoes in to i ts under-used

import te rmina ls . “Af ter four

years o f f la t supp ly we are

enter ing a per iod o f supp ly

growth,” says Andrew Walker,

BG Group V ice Pres ident o f

G loba l LNG

“2014 marked the s tar t -

up of a new wave of supp ly

f rom Aust ra l ia , and th is w i l l

be jo ined by the f i rs t vo lumes

f rom the US Gul f o f Mex ico

around the end of 2015.”

POST OPERATIONALForward s ix months to

mid-2016, and Gate’s new

mult i user LNG break bulk

in f rastructure should be

operat ional . What then? “As

a hub we have now more or

less completed our whole

port fo l io of serv ices, so we

wi l l f i rst have to focus on

growth, and in the f i rst years

managing operat ions in a

h ighly profess ional way,” says

Mr Meur

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GATE SWinGS WiDEr

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Fluor Congratulates Gate terminal

Congratulations to Gate terminal B.V. and its shareholders N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie and Koninklijke Vopak N.V. for being at the forefront of providing environmentally friendly and safe LNG as fuel for north-western Europe.

Fluor is proud to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for the LNG break bulk terminal that exemplifies this capability. We look forward to working on this and future projects that support Gate terminal and its shareholders leading energy infrastructure and transfer.

Please contact us whatever your needs along the gas and LNG chain.

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