Gasco files MEPA application for €25million LPG plant
A visualisation of the new Gasco gas bottling plant at Benghajsa.
Gasco Energy has submitted an application to MEPA for a full development permit for the building and operation of a €25m LPG bottling and storage facility at Benghajsa.
Gasco Energy last November took over the management of Enemalta's Gas Division.
The company, a joint venture between Multigas Limited and Liquigas S.p.A. of Italy, had committed itself to build and operate a new storage and bottling plant, fully respecting the stringent EU criteria as established in the Seveso II Directives. They investment will include a pipeline from the importation terminal to the facility, new LPG storage tanks, a cylinder filling plant, a cylinder testing plant, and an administration building.
Roberto Capelluto, Gasco Energy’s CEO, said: “In its submission to MEPA, Gasco Malta has also submitted a series of renderings portraying a visualisation of the new plant. Once MEPA approves the Benghajsa installation project, Gasco Energy will be building the installation over a span of nearly three years. Gasco Energy will then transfer operations from Qajjenza to Benghajsa thus eliminating any risk the Qajjenza plant currently has due to its present location."
He said Gasco Energy will significantly increase LPG storage facilities and therefore will be securing a continuous, adequate supply of liquefied petroleum gas to cater for present and future requirements of the Maltese market.
"The company will be maximizing the efficiency of gas bottling and storage operations through the application of modern technology and efficient work practices, while ensuring that appropriate quality, environmental and health standards are maintained at all times.”
On February 1, 2009, Liquigas Malta Ltd - a sister company to Gasco Energy - took over the gas distribution business from Enemalta.
Enemalta is still responsible for the gas cylinder filling operations at the Qajjenza plant.
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fabian muliet
Apr 2nd 2009, 20:30
Funny this place was once earmarked for a formula1 track, then it was supposed to become a land fill and now this!!!!
Anthony Roberts
Apr 2nd 2009, 13:14
What a shame no one thought of our coastline when the freeport was being built!!!!
J.pace
Apr 2nd 2009, 12:52
Giving a permet on a cliff - sea view area ?? are we maltese getting crazy or what ??
Also increase the LPG, when many households converted their water heater to gas ? .. When are we going to get some competition?? , not always the same monopole of - enemalta - LPG - ADT - etc ..
henry galea
Apr 2nd 2009, 12:31
The bad propaganda, our friends already know how much the plant will cost, but were unable to state beforehand how much a bottle of gas will cost.
R FERRIGGI
Apr 2nd 2009, 11:39
i agree with the below comment.
the maltese coastline and shore line should be considered SACROSANT.
why not utilize a used quarry. there are hundreds in the mqabba area.
SCassar
Apr 2nd 2009, 11:01
Is a quarry a prime site? This development will be done in a DISUSED quarry which served for land reclemation for the freeport terminal! what's wrong in it? There will be no visual impact on the area, the sea shore will still be available! only the trappers will not be happy with it!
or we prefer to use an agricultural land for Gas bottling facility? Or maybe we moan on everything that happens in malta like Mr.Pulis & Mr.camilleri?
Anthony Formosa
Apr 2nd 2009, 10:42
Another sustainable project, another piece of vergin land will be lost, and we talk about environment my foot. Where are the NGOs??
lgalea
Apr 2nd 2009, 10:19
Is it going to block access to the cliffs/seashore because it looks like it.
If it is let's start a protest against all this land grabbing by a foreign company.
We have become a land where foreigners do what they want and we have to obey whatever they say.
People, rise against all these impositions.
Lets get out of the eu.
d.pulis
Apr 2nd 2009, 09:53
I still can't get around my head why such a plant have to be located opposite the sea. i.e. a prime site!!!
a.camilleri
Apr 2nd 2009, 09:35
watch the price of gas going up through the roof.
and why all this kind of projects being all build in the south? i remember when i was a kid going to swim in that area and it used to be popular with people from this side of the island, now its all gone, mind you, people from the north can say the same, except that their beaches been taken by hotels.