In der Führungsebene der Fluxys in Deutschland findet eine Veränderung statt: Dr. Peter Drasdo verlässt die Gesellschaft zum 1.Juli 2017 in bestem beidseitigem Einvernehmen und wird sich neuen Aufgaben außerhalb der Fluxys-Gruppe zuwenden.
Die Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber GASCADE Gastransport GmbH, Fluxys Deutschland GmbH, Gasunie Deutschland Transport Services GmbH und ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH haben eine Bruchteilseigentümervereinbarung für das Pipelineprojekt Europäische Gas-Anbindungsleitung (EUGAL) unterzeichnet.
Natural gas transmission tariffs are set to drop for the third time in five years on 1 January 2018, which will have a positive impact on gas bills for individuals, SMEs as well as large companies. This decrease is triggered by the interim tariff revision mechanism provided for in CREG’s tariff decision.
- Net profit stable despite low interest rates: €61.1 million
- Dividend at same level as last year: €1.20 (gross) per share
- €188 million investments in infrastructure
- Belgian grid entirely bidirectional thanks to laying of Alveringem-Maldegem pipeline
- A first in Europe: integrated gas market for Luxembourg and Belgium
- 20-year contract for LNG transshipment services
- Regulated revenue in the new regulatory period down as a result of the decrease in a number of authorised costs: operating expenses, financial expenses, and the authorised return affected by the continuing very low level of interest rates
- Fluxys Belgium will propose to the Annual General Meeting to be held on 9 May 2017 paying out the same gross dividend as the previous year, namely €1.20 per share
- Investments: €139.2 million, mainly relating to the fifth tank and the second jetty at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal
- Belgian grid plays a key role in meeting flexibility needs for the Northwest European and UK markets
- Belgian gas trading place ZTP hits record highs (up 50%)
- Small-scale LNG enjoys continued success and natural gas as a transport fuel makes considerable progress
Pascal De Buck, CEO of Fluxys Belgium, and Thierry Trouvé, CEO of GRTgaz, inaugurated in Pitgam (Nord) the new gas transmission pipeline connecting France and Belgium. Initiated in 2010, this new link between the two countries is another step towards creating a more integrated gas market in Northwest Europe.
The Green Gas Initiative has launched its first report on how gas and gas infrastructure can help to achieve the European objectives for reducing carbon and other harmful emissions. The report focuses on three main topics: biomethane, power to gas and gas as a fuel in road and maritime transport.
The Green Gas Initiative (GGI) members saw 11 TWh of biomethane injected in gas networks of their home countries in 2016, a 50% increase over the past three years. This promising result is one of the outcomes detailed in GGI’s recent first report on the development of biomethane.
Information on key events in the first half of 2016 and their impact on the financial situation of Fluxys Belgium:
- Regulated turnover down – drop results from of a number of authorised costs in decrease: operating expenses, financial expenses and the authorised return
- Efficiency efforts in line with the regulated tariff model
- Increasingly lower interest rates affect the group's results
- Investments: €54.2 million, mainly for the fifth storage tank and the second jetty at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal
- Traded volumes on the ZTP gas trading place have risen by over 51%
- Success of small-scale LNG continues
14 September 2017 – As liquidity and market depth at the Belgian gas trading place ZTP continues to increase, pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS has launched a ZTP monthly price index. The monthly index offers end users and grid users in Belgium an attractive alternative for currently used price references in gas supply contracts.
9 December 2016 – RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has successfully delivered the first LNG cargo at the second jetty of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal. Unloading the vessel was part of the operational tests in view of commissioning the new facility.
Information on key events in the first half of 2017 and their impact on the financial situation of Fluxys Belgium
- Turnover up, mainly due to the start of contracts for gas transmission between Dunkirk and Zeebrugge
- Slight upturn in interest rates has positive impact on the Group’s results
- €36.0 million in investments, mainly in the fifth storage tank and second jetty at the LNG terminal in Zeebrugge
- Fluxys Belgium’s infrastructure: key role on the North-Western European market
- Offtake by gas-fired power stations increases by nearly one quarter
- Belgian gas trading places continue to thrive: ZTP up 46%
- Small-scale LNG remains successful and natural gas as a fuel for transport continues to rise
The world’s first top category ice class LNG carrier has docked at the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal for a series of scheduled operations. The vessel will be serving the Yamal LNG production terminal under construction in North Siberia.
Das gemeinsame deutsche Marktgebiet wird voraussichtlich zum 1. Oktober 2021 seine Arbeit aufnehmen. Auf diesen Zeitpunkt haben sich die deutschen Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber (FNB) mit der Bundesnetzagentur verständigt. Dieser Termin, der mit dem Start des Gaswirtschaftsjahres zusammenfällt, ist aus Sicht der FNB operativ am vorteilhaftesten für alle Marktteilnehmer.
In der Führungsebene der Fluxys in Deutschland findet eine Veränderung statt: Dr. Peter Drasdo verlässt die Gesellschaft zum 1.Juli 2017 in bestem beidseitigem Einvernehmen und wird sich neuen Aufgaben außerhalb der Fluxys-Gruppe zuwenden.
Das gemeinsame deutsche Marktgebiet wird voraussichtlich zum 1. Oktober 2021 seine Arbeit aufnehmen. Auf diesen Zeitpunkt haben sich die deutschen Fernleitungsnetzbetreiber (FNB) mit der Bundesnetzagentur verständigt. Dieser Termin, der mit dem Start des Gaswirtschaftsjahres zusammenfällt, ist aus Sicht der FNB operativ am vorteilhaftesten für alle Marktteilnehmer.
Die Plangenehmigung für die Deodorierungsanlage bei Schwörstadt (Landkreis Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg) wurde Ende Oktober vom zuständigen Regierungspräsidium in Freiburg erteilt. Mit den vorbereitenden Baumaßnahmen ist begonnen worden.
The climate target to reduce CO2 emissions in Belgium by 80% by 2050 compared to 2005 levels is a major challenge. Hydrogen has an important role to play in the mix of solutions to achieve results. That is why Deme, Engie, Exmar, Fluxys, Port of Antwerp, Port of Zeebrugge and WaterstofNet are joining forces. A joint study serves as a basis to coordinate delivery of concrete projects that shape the production, transport and storage of hydrogen.
Having embraced climate neutrality since its inception in 2017, Fluxys with the Gas for Climate consortium welcomes the increase in ambition level to fight climate change as reflected in the EU Green Deal.