Revythousa ( el, Ρεβυθούσα) is a small island in the

Saronic Gulf The Saronic Gulf (Greek: Σαρωνικός κόλπος, ''Saronikós kólpos'') or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Co ...

, uninhabited with an area of 0.18 square kilometers. It is located 500 meters south of the coast of Agia Triada, in the bay of and 900 meters west of Salamis. Revitousa administratively belongs to Salamis since 2001.

Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Station

Since 1999, Revythousa hosts one of the most important national infrastructures in Greece, the Revithoussa LNG Terminal. It is one of the three sources of supply of the National Gas Transmission System and one of the ten similar stations operating today throughout the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...

and

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. There, cargoes of natural gas in liquid form are unloaded and received, arriving in the country by tankers. The

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volu ...

is stored in two tanks with a total capacity of 130,000 cubic meters.https://www.desfa.gr/national-natural-gas-system/lng-facility Then, at the special facilities of the unit, it is converted into gas and powers the National Natural Gas System. In October 2007,

DESFA DESFA (National Natural Gas System Operator S.A.) is a natural gas transmission system operator in Greece. It was established on 30 March 2007 as a subsidiary of DEPA. In addition to the transmission system, the company also operates Greece's g ...

completed the upgrading work of the Revithousa Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal, accomplishing one of the most important investments in the country's energy infrastructure. With this upgrade, the station will now be able to receive and process up to triple the amount of natural gas and provide the National Transmission System with 5.2-5.3 billion cubic meters per year. In particular, the project included the expansion of infrastructure and enhancing the equipment to increase the gasification capacity of the plant to 1,000 cubic meters of gas per hour, from 271 cubic meters per hour.

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External links

Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Station

LNG Terminal Station of Revithousa - www.promitheas.org.gr
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