InfraStrata 將Islandmagee Storage持股份額提高至 90%

UK-based InfraStrata has acquired an extra 25% equity stake in Islandmagee Storage, the developer of a planned gas storage facility in Northern Ireland, from local publicly-owned firm Mutual Energy.Mutual, which joined the project in May 2008, runs Northern Ireland’s gas and power network. InfraStrata now owns 90% of the Islandmagee storage venture, with Mutual 10%. InfraStrata said it is envisaged that the Islandmagee gas storage facility will play an important role in future gas supply to Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Great Britain, adding that its fast-acting salt cavern project there would provide fast supply of gas to meet short-term demand surges. The facility will have working gas storage capacity of 500mn m3. The project has already received €1.6mn ($1.8mn) from the EU.