Construction

This stage began with the following key stages:

• Opening of the construction site on May 5, 2014;

• Setting up the construction yard in April and June 2014;

• Signing the French Navigation Waterways Agreement in June 2014;

• Preparing the site underground from June to August 2014;

• Dynamic compaction of the ground in September 2014;

• Signing the civil engineering contracts and launching the construction works in October 2014.

 

The launch of the construction process will be characterized by:

• the delivery of the civil engineering documents and execution of site works;

• the construction of nine technology blocks (biomass management, gasification and washing of the synthesis gas, methanation, making the methane produced compliant with the specifications, laboratory and physical & chemical analysis, use of experimental data, utilities, electrical equipment, control equipments, management of the assets, and civil engineering).