Press Release
Cegelec is partner of Dutch BAM Group
to build a major underground gas storage facility
Paris, 30 March 2009
Cegelec, an international group providing technological services to companies and public authorities, will provide the electrical systems, instrumentation and building installations (HVAC, security) for the first underground gas storage facility in salt caverns in the Netherlands. The contract, worth some €21 million out of a €90 million large project, was signed with the Dutch constructor BAM Group. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2010.
The natural gas storage facility, located in the Groningen province near one of Europe’s biggest gas fields, will consist of four salt caverns with a total storage capacity of 180 million cubic meters. In addition, above-ground installations will be built, including five compressors and the installations required to extract and dry the gas.
With its 750 employees, Cegelec is a well-established company in the Netherlands. It has already worked with BAM for the electrical, instrumentation and control systems of a compression station for the gas pipeline between the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in 2005.
Cegelec has built itself a strong reputation in automation and control systems for gas production and storage fields, as well as for transportation (pipelines). In France alone, the Group has been working for GDF Suez (including its subsidiaries GRTgaz, Storengy, Elengy) since 1999, upgrading or expanding twelve sites (compression stations and underground storage).
Thanks to the experience accumulated Cegelec is now considering offering a full turnkey compression station solution to the market.
