[WATCH] LNG plant on track, Mizzi insists

Updated timeline to be issued on completion of 200MW plant works

18 May 2016, 5:57pm
by Miriam Dalli

1 min read

Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic (Photo: Chris Mangion/MediaToday)

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LNG plant on track, Mizzi insists

Enemalta has halted 50% of the operation of the turbine at the Delimara power station extension, also known as the BWSC plant, which runs on heavy fuel oil.

The turbine will be soon converted to run on liquefied natural gas.

In comments to the media during a tour of the new Delimara gas plant works, with a delegation accompanying the Montenegrin prime minister, minister Konrad Mizzi – who is responsible for energy affairs within the Office of the Prime Minister – said specific dates would be announced when the conversion to gas is to take place.

The new 200MW gas plant is a central policy deliverable for the Labour government.

“Our second milestone will be the LNG carrier entering the port, and carrying out the studies that will delineate the new gas pipeline to Italy. That will mean the gas tanker will not remain in port for a long time, but eventually be substituted by the pipeline.

“A new update timeline will be provided but the project remains on course,” Mizzi said.