International engineering and project management companies AMEC, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Senergy have been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) for both the onshore and offshore elements of the Gateway offshore underground gas storage project, located 25 km southwest of Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom, in the Irish Sea.
The facility will be built in salt caverns approximately 750 m beneath the surface of the seabed and be connected to the national gas transmission scheme via a new pipeline, which will terminate at a compressor station adjacent to the existing Morecambe gas terminals at Barrow.
The Gateway storage project will provide 1.5 Bcm of storage capacity and is designed to add new capacity to meet Britain’s gas demand.
Gateway Storage Director Andrew Stacey said construction is scheduled to commence at the end of 2010, with first storage services to start during 2014.
Pictured is a schematic of the Gateway gas storage development showing the offshore monopods, underground salt cavern gas storage facilities, and the offshore gas pipeline ring main which connects to the onshore UK gas pipeline National Grid transmission system via the Gateway compressor station.
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