Liquefied pure gasoline: Tanker calls at Rügen LNG terminal for exams for the primary time | EUROtoday

For the primary time, a tanker has reached the Rügen terminal for liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) began. The “Maran Gas Alexandria” arrived in Mukran on Tuesday with Norwegian LNG, stated the terminal operator Deutsche Regas. The start-up serves to check supply and loading processes. The terminal presently solely has approval for trial operation.

In a letter, the corporate identified to residents that in the course of the exams, all of the items required for the loading processes can be turned on greater than within the deliberate common operation, in order that there could also be extra noise. The exams are anticipated to be accomplished inside the subsequent few days. The noise will then even be noticeably lowered.

An unbiased knowledgeable workplace constantly carries out noise measurements within the industrial port of Mukran. They additional confirmed that every one emission limits had been met all through the trial operation.

The terminal is controversial. Critics converse of unneeded overcapacity, excessive prices and injury to the surroundings, local weather and tourism. The federal authorities, nevertheless, considers it vital, citing safety of provide.

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