A so-called air rising ceremony – involving gently pumping air into place to raise circular steel roofs into place – was held on Sept 16 for the new liquefied natural gas or LNG tanks being built at the Wenzhou Huagang LNG storage and transportation peak regulation center in Wenzhou city, in East China's Zhejiang province.
An air rising ceremony is held for the new LNG storage tanks being built in Wenzhou, in East China's Zhejiang province, on Sept 16. [Photo/zj.zjol.com.cn]
The LNG center is being funded by Huafon Group, a chemicals new materials producer located in Ruian, a county-level city administered by Wenzhou.
The LNG facility is one of the 53 coastal LNG receiving stations in China, which are being built and put into operation. Plans are for the complete Wenzhou LNG project to be constructed in three phases, at a total cost of 10.6 billion yuan ($1.64 billion).
In the first phase, the planned land area is 285 mu (19 hectares) and the planned investment is about 2.4 billion yuan.
The main construction projects include a 100,000-ton wharf, which can berth 182,000 cubic meters LNG vessels, two 160,000-cu-m LNG storage tanks, supporting process devices and public engineering facilities.
The first phase of the project is expected to be finished and start operating in the first quarter of 2023. After completion, the annual turnover of natural gas will reach three million tons.
