SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington D.C.
20549
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FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN
ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR
15d-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
Date: 5 April
2005
NATIONAL GRID TRANSCO
plc
(Registrant's
Name)
1-3
Strand
London
WC2N
5EH
(Registrant's
Address)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or
will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form
40-F.
Form 20-F
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Form 40-F
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by
furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the
information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3- 2(b) under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the
file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule
12g3-2(b):
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorised.
NATIONAL GRID TRANSCO plc
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By: s/ Andrew P.
Durrant_________
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Name: Andrew P. Durrant
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Title: Assistant Secretary
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Date: 6 April
2005
ANNEX 1 - SUMMARY
FORM
6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington D.C.
20549
Report of Foreign
Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
The Securities Exchange Act of
1934
Announcements sent to the London Stock
Exchange
for the month of March
2005.
National Grid Transco plc
('NGT') 1-3
Strand London, WC2N
5EH United Kingdom
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Recent Announcements to The
London Stock Exchange:
DATE
DETAILS
31.3.05
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Isle of Grain LNG importation terminal-
expansion
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24.3.05
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Directors technical interests (ESOP subscribes for
shares)
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24.3.05
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NGT Financial Timetable for year ending 31 March
2006
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16.3.05
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Quest Operation
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15.3.05 and 16.3.05
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Director's share interests (Maria Richter- spouse
purchases)
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11.3.05
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Director's share purchase (Sir John
Parker)
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10.3.05
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NGT Euro Medium Term Note Programme
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8.3.05
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Directors Interests - Share Incentive Plan - monthly
update
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4.3.05
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Director's share purchase (Ken Harvey)
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1.3.05
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Quest Operation
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Note:
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In addition, two 'same day' SEC filings on Form
6-K were made as follows
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- Announcements:
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4 March 2005: 'National
Grid Transco plc -International Financial Reporting
Standards'
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24 March 2005; 'National
Grid Transco close period trading update for the
year ended 31 March 2005'.
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ANNEX 2 - Copy
Announcements as sent
FORM
6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
Washington D.C.
20549
Report of Foreign
Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or
15d-16 of
The Securities Exchange Act of
1934
Announcements sent to the London Stock
Exchange
for the month of March
2005.
National Grid Transco plc
('NGT') 1-3
Strand London, WC2N
5EH United Kingdom
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National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
1 March
2005
QUALIFYING EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP TRUST
(Quest)
(Notification of Directors' Interests
pursuant to Section 324(2)
of the Companies Act
1985)
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Yesterday,
each of the following NGT Executive Directors: E M Astle, S J Holliday, N P
Winser and R J Urwin, technically ceased to be interested in 14,517 NGT Ordinary
shares, by virtue of the Quest transferring the shares to
employees.
(Note: For Companies Act purposes,
the Executive Directors named above are deemed to have a technical interest in
the shares held in NGT's Quest, together with all participating employees. The
interest ceases when shares are transferred to participants who exercise their
Sharesave scheme options.)
Contact: D C
Forward, Assistant Secretary (0207 004 3226).
4
March 2005
National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
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Directors'
Share Purchase
We have been notified that
Kenneth Harvey, Non-Executive Director of NGT, today purchased in his own name,
2,000 NGT ordinary shares, at 499.25 pence per share. This transaction
increases his total interest to 3,874 shares.
National Grid
Transco plc (NGT)
Tuesday 8 March
2005
NGT SHARE INCENTIVE PLAN (the
"SIP")
(Notification of Directors'
Interests, pursuant to Section 324(2)
of the
Companies Act
1985)
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Under
the SIP scheme, operated through Towers Perrin Share Plan Services Limited as
Trustee, employees may acquire NGT ordinary shares by regular monthly
contributions. The current monthly purchase of 65,844 NGT ordinary shares under
the scheme has been confirmed by the Trustee, the shares having been purchased
in the market yesterday (7 March 2005), at a price of 506 pence per share, on
behalf of some 3,800 participants.
The
following executive Directors of NGT are beneficiaries of the number of shares
purchased on their behalf:
Director
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Shares purchased in SIP
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Resulting total interest
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Steven Holliday
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25
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630,213
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Roger Urwin
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25
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1,375,801
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National Grid Transco
plc
EURO MEDIUM TERM NOTE
PROGRAMME
National Grid Transco plc announces that it has
today issued EUR 500,000,000 4.375% Fixed Rate Instruments due 10 March 2020
Series No 14, as part of the National Grid Transco plc and National Grid Company
plc EUR 6,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme.
10 March
2005
Contact: Andrew Kluth (Tel: 020 7004
3365)
11 March
2005
National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
Directors' Share
Purchase
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Sir
John Parker, Chairman of NGT, today purchased a further 12,000 NGT shares at
494.19p per share.
This takes his total holding
to 52,229 NGT shares.
15 March
2005
National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
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Directors'
Share
Purchase
We
were notified yesterday that Maria Richter, Non-Executive Director of NGT,
acquired an interest in 500 NGT ordinary shares, purchased by her husband at a
price of 487.43 pence per share on 14 March 2005.
This transaction increases her total interest
to 1,500 NGT ordinary
shares.
16
March 2005
National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
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Directors'
Share
Purchase
We
have been notified that Maria Richter, Non-Executive Director of NGT, today
acquired an interest in 500 NGT ordinary shares, purchased by her husband at a
price of 489.34 pence per share.
This
transaction increases her total interest to 2,000 NGT ordinary
shares.
National
Grid Transco plc (NGT)
16 March
2005
QUALIFYING EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP TRUST
(Quest)
(Notification of Directors' Interests
pursuant to Section 324(2)
of the Companies Act
1985)
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Yesterday,
each of the following NGT Executive Directors: E M Astle, S J Holliday, N P
Winser and R J Urwin, technically ceased to be interested in 8,582 NGT Ordinary
shares, by virtue of the Quest transferring the shares to
employees.
(Note: For Companies Act purposes,
the Executive Directors named above are deemed to have a technical interest in
the shares held in NGT's Quest, together with all participating employees. The
interest ceases when shares are transferred to participants who exercise their
Sharesave scheme options.)
Contact: D C
Forward, Assistant Secretary (0207 004
3226).
National Grid Transco plc
('NGT')
24 March 2005
National Grid Transco Financial
Timetable
for the year ending 31 March
2006.
On 10 January 2005, NGT notified its
investor diary dates for 2005. As anticipated, that information is now updated,
with the full financial timetable, scheduled as
follows:
19 May 2005
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2004/05 preliminary results *
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8 June 2005
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Ordinary shares go ex-dividend
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10 June 2005
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Record date for 2004/05 final dividend
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June
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Annual Report posted to shareholders*
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25 July 2005
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Annual General Meeting and
EGM -International Convention Centre,
Birmingham.
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24 August 2005
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2004/05 final dividend paid to qualifying
shareholders
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17 November 2005
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2005/06 interim results*
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30 November 2005
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Ordinary shares go ex-dividend
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2 December 2005
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Record date for 2005/06 interim
dividend
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25 January 2006
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2005/06 interim dividend paid to qualifying
shareholders
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Note: Further dates in connection with the return of
cash will be confirmed in due course.
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Documents available on NGT Group website
(www.ngtgroup.com)
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Contact:
D C Forward, Assistant Secretary, 0207 004
3226
24 March
2005
National Grid Transco plc
(NGT)
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The
National Grid Transco 1996 Employee Benefit Trust (the
"Trust")
(Notification of Directors'
Interests, Pursuant to Section 324(2) of the Companies Act
1985)
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NGT
today received a notification from Towers Perrin Share Plan Services (Guernsey)
Limited the Trustee of the Trust which operates in conjunction with the ESOP and
Sharematch plans, that certain Executive Directors of NGT (E Astle, S Holliday,
S Lucas, R Urwin and N Winser) became technically interested in a total of
100,000 NGT Ordinary shares, by virtue of the Trustee having acquired the shares
on 24 March 2005 by new issue at a price of 487.5p to satisfy future
exercises of options.
(Note: For Companies Act
purposes, these Executive Directors of NGT are deemed to have a technical
interest in all the shares held by the Trust, together with other beneficiaries.
The interest ceases when shares are transferred to participants by the exercise
of executive share options or Sharematch
options.)
Contact: H A Richardson, Company
Secretarial Assistant (0207 004 3228)
National Grid Transco announces
£355 million expansion of
Isle of Grain LNG
importation terminal
National Grid Transco plc (NGT) today announces a
new £355 million investment to triple the capacity of its Isle of Grain
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) importation terminal in Kent, owned and operated by
its subsidiary, Grain LNG Limited.
This
second phase of development will increase the facility's capacity to
import and process LNG from 3.3 million tonnes per year to 9.8 million tonnes
per year, representing around 12 per cent of the UK's annual gas demand,
and is expected to commence operations in late
2008.
The additional investment in Grain LNG is
underpinned by 20 year contracts signed with Centrica, Gaz de France (GdF) and
Sonatrach for the additional capacity. It also includes a lump-sum turnkey
contract with CB&I John Brown to construct three new LNG storage tanks and
associated works required for this expansion. This follows on from the first
phase of development at Grain, where 3.3 million tonnes capacity of LNG per year
was acquired in 2003 by BP/Sonatrach under a 20 year agreement.
Commenting, Edward Astle, Group Director of
NGT's Non-Regulated businesses,
said:
"As Britain moves progressively
from being an exporter to a significant importer of natural gas, it is vital
that the infrastructure is in place to meet the nation's gas requirements.
NGT has been a leader in enabling the import of liquefied natural gas. This
expansion of our Isle of Grain facility will bring our total investment in
liquefied natural gas infrastructure to some £500 million. It will triple
Grain's capacity and help ensure liquefied natural gas can play its full
part in meeting Britain's future energy needs, as well as diversifying the
source of gas supplies for the country."
The Isle of Grain facility has been associated
with LNG storage capacity since the early 1980s. In 2003 NGT announced an
investment of £130 million in the first phase of converting the site into a
LNG importation facility, to enable LNG tankers to berth, unload and store LNG,
prior to its regasification and nomination of gas for delivery into the
UK's National Transmission System. It will come on stream this spring,
representing around 4 per cent of the UK's annual gas demand.
Cautionary
statement
This announcement contains
certain statements that are neither reported financial results nor other
historical information. These statements are forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Because these
forward-looking statements are subject to assumptions, risks and uncertainties,
actual future results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied
by such statements. Many of these assumptions, risks and uncertainties relate to
factors that are beyond National Grid Transco's ability to control or estimate
precisely, such as delays in obtaining or adverse conditions contained in
regulatory approvals, competition and industry restructuring, changes in
economic conditions, currency fluctuations, changes in interest and tax rates,
changes in energy market prices, changes in historical weather patterns, changes
in laws, regulations or regulatory policies, developments in legal or public
policy doctrines, the impact of changes to accounting standards, technological
developments, the failure to retain key management, the availability of new
acquisition opportunities or the timing and success of future acquisition
opportunities. Other factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in this announcement include the ability to
continue to integrate the US and UK businesses acquired by or merged with the
Group, the failure for any reason to achieve reductions in costs or to achieve
operational efficiencies, unseasonable weather impacting on demand for
electricity and gas, the behaviour of UK electricity market participants on
system balancing, the timing of amendments in prices to shippers in the UK gas
market, the performance of National Grid Transco's pension schemes and the
regulatory treatment of pension costs, the impact of the proposed disposal by
National Grid Transco of four of its UK gas distribution networks and any
adverse consequences arising from outages on or otherwise affecting energy
networks owned and/or operated by National Grid Transco.
For a more detailed description of these
assumptions, risks and uncertainties, together with any other risk factors,
please see National Grid Transco's filings with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission (and in particular the "Risk Factors" and "Operating and
Financial Review" sections filed with its most recent annual report on Form
20F). Recipients are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this
announcement. National Grid Transco does not undertake any obligation to release
publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances after the date of this announcement.
Contacts
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National Grid Transco
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Investors
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Alexandra Lewis
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+44 (0)20 7004 3170
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+44 (0)7768 554879(m)
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David Campbell
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+44 (0)20 7004 3171
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+44 (0)7799 131783(m)
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Richard Smith
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+44 (0)20 7004 3172
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+44 (0)7747 006321(m)
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Bob Seega (US)
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+1 508 389 2598
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Media
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Clive Hawkins
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+44 (0) 20 7004 3147
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+44 (0) 7836 357173(m)
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Christine Riches
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+44 (0) 13067 48596
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+44 (0) 7785 508661(m)
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Chris Mostyn
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+44 (0) 1926 655275
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+44 (0) 7879 668025(m)
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Citigate Dewe Rogerson
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+44 (0)20 7638 9571
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Anthony Carlisle
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+44 (0)7973 611888(m)
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Photographs of the Isle of Grain facility
are available at www.newscast.co.uk
Notes to
Editors
1. Britain's Gas Import
Demand
Britain's annual gas demand is
projected to increase by at least 15 per cent over the next ten years. As
production from North Sea gas fields declines, dependence on gas imports is
forecast to approach 46 per cent by 2010.
Government and industry forecasts recognise the need
to secure long-term gas imports. LNG imports will also add to the diversity of
gas supply and enable gas to be released into the system quickly to meet demand
requirements.
LNG is natural gas liquefied by
refrigeration to a temperature of -160C. This process reduces its volume
to 1/600th of that at normal temperature, enabling bulk and economic
transportation by tanker.
2. Isle of
Grain Terminal
The Isle of Grain LNG site
was established in the early 1980s as an LNG storage facility, holding
approximately 200,000 cubic metres.
In 2003,
planning permission was granted by Medway Council to convert the site into an
LNG importation terminal. This resulted in the construction of a deep-water
jetty on the River Medway estuary, to enable purpose built LNG ships, with LNG
capacities of up to 205,000 cubic metres to dock. It also required the
installation of new boil-off gas compressors, high efficiency vaporisers and a
4.5km cryogenic pipeline to transport LNG from the ships to the tanks, as well
as converting the four existing LNG storage tanks for importation from LNG
ships.
The first contract for use of Grain
LNG's phase one capacity was signed in October 2003 with BP/Sonatrach, for
the import of up to 3.3 million tonnes of LNG per annum over 20 years.
Planning permission was granted by Medway
Council for the phase two development in September 2004. It will require the
construction of three additional total containment storage tanks of 190,000
cubic metres capacity each, bringing the total storage capacity of the terminal
to approximately 770,000 cubic metres, as well as associated vaporisation
equipment and tie-ins to the existing LNG unloading and gas export systems.
3. Grain LNG
Capacity
Phase one development of the Grain
LNG facility equates to an additional 12 million cubic metres of gas entering
the National Transmission System every day, or around 4.4 billion cubic metres
per annum, representing around 4 per cent of the UK's current annual gas
demand.
Phase two development equates to an
additional 23.5 million cubic metres of gas entering the National Transmission
System every day, or around 8.6 billion cubic metres per annum.
Phase one and phase two developments together
equate to an additional 35.5 million cubic metres of gas entering the National
Transmission System every day, or around 13 billion cubic metres per annum,
representing around 12 per cent of the UK's current annual gas
demand.