RE: O and w14 Aug 2018 07:05
Ask yourself this question. How much would it cost a company to start the entire process of developing storage at Islandmagee? The process being :
Formulation of the idea
Setting up a new company to develop the process from start through to pre-construction
Securing planning permission, permits, EU PCI status
Hiring staff
Securing funding
Securing the expertise and developing those important commercial, political (EU, UKG, NIREG, IREG) and financial relationships so important to developing a 'public' asset of this size
Developing inter-company relationships
Fixtures, fittings and premises
and all the other expenses required for such an enterprise
All the above takes TIME AND EXPENSE. Well, INFA has already been through this entire process.
I believe mgt is incurring minimal expenses to FEED and then maybe looking to sell to the highest bidder, assuming there is one of course
Over the long term LNG is going to become so important to the Irish economy (both Ire and N-Ire) and storage and security will become a priority. Islandmagee could become a US import LNG hub, transit,. trading and storage site into Europe and Ireland
I don't know what may happen though. We can only wait for news