CASTOR UNDERGROUND NATURAL GAS STORAGE (UGS) PROJECT

The Castor Underground Natural Gas Storage (UGS) facility is needed to help meet the urgent need for additional gas storage capacity in Spain. Castor UGS is ideally located on the highly industrialized eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, with onshore facilities to be constructed 15 kilometres (9 miles) inland from the coastal town of Vinaròs and additional facilities and wells to be located 21 kilometres (13 miles) offshore over a depleted underground oil reservoir. Through its strategic partnership Eurogas has an indirect ownership interest in the Castor Project.

The Castor UGS project will utilize the depleted Amposta oil reservoir. This offshore geological structure is 5 kilometres long, 2.5 kilometres wide and up to 250 metres thick, providing an estimated total of 1.9 billion cubic metres (67 billion cubic feet) of storage capacity. The underground reservoir’s size and porosity provide estimated storage volume equivalent to 14 liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation tankers.