Norway-based LNG design and engineering firm Fuelgarden Energy has commissioned a temporary LNG installation on the Isle of Skye in Scotland to supply the gas to Mowi´s newbuilt fish feed factory at Kyleakin.
The fish feed factory, with an estimated cost of £125m, will produce fish feed for Mowi´s salmon fish farms in Scotland, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. The process to produce the fish feed requires thermal energy, and for this purpose Fuelgarden Energy has designed and project managed the construction of a 2,000m3 LNG terminal.
“As an LNG designer with specialisation in off-grid energy solutions we are very pleased to have been assigned the task by Mowi to design and project manage both the permanent and the temporary LNG solution at their newbuilt fish feed factory at Kyleakin,” said Dag Lilletvedt, founder and chief executive of Fuelgarden Energy. “The temporary LNG installation has been designed with mobile LNG tanks and by using existing cryogenic equipment in the market”.
The LNG terminal is mechanically complete, with commissioning planned for Q3 2019. Whilst waiting for the LNG terminal to begin operation, Fuelgarden Energy has designed and commissioned a mobile LNG installation that is supplying natural gas to the fish feed factory on a temporary basis.
Mowi´s project director, Mick Watts, said, “We are very pleased that Fuelgarden managed to find a way to temporarily supply our newbuilt fish feed factory with natural gas on such short notice. From the time of project decision to the time of commissioning it only took them about 3 months.”
