Work on gas plant starts
PREPARATION work to construct the £500million TOTAL gas processing plant got underway on Thursday when the first earth was moved to build the access road to the site at the back of the Sullom Voe Terminal.
In March, the UK government gave green light for the massive project after the French oil giant and Shetland Islands Council reached a land lease agreement.
The company will invest around £2.5billion over four years to develop the Laggan and Tormore gas fields, to the west of Shetland.
The gas will be piped to the Sullom Voe terminal where it will be processed before being exported via pipeline to the UK mainland.
A spokesman for Total in Aberdeen said yesterday (Friday): “We have started with the earthwork that we have to undertake as part of the onshore gas terminal at Sullom Voe.
“It is the work that needs to be done even before we start the construction of the plant itself.”
An official turf cutting ceremony for the gas plant is being planned for later in May. The whole project is scheduled to be operational by 2014.
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