en bref 2015

en bref
2015
O f f e r i n g av a i l a b i l i ty
an d h i g h p e r f o rm a n ce,
o u r t r a ns p or t g ri d a n d
s to r a g e f a c i l i ti es a re s et to
be c o m e a r e a l l i n k i n th e
e n e r g y c ha i n o f th e f uture.
Monique Delamare
Managing Director TIGF SA
TIGF has expertise centred around two sectors : Gas Transport and
Storage. TIGF is a company with a staff of 582 based in South-West
France for the last 70 years, whose head office, "Espace Volta",
is located in Pau. At the heart of the interconnections between France
and Spain, half-way between the North Sea gas reserves and those in
Algeria, TIGF occupies a strategic position in Europe.
TIGF views its gas transport and storage activity from a perspective of
ongoing improvement of the services offered to its customers.
transport
The Transport activity allows shipper customers to
send volumes of natural gas from one point on the
grid to another. The gas can be used directly in the
area by the public distribution networks or by
industrial customers connected directly to the grid.
It can also simply transit through the local TIGF area
to be consumed elsewhere. As a gas transmission
operator, TIGF is bound to provide a public utility
service (OSP decree of 19 March 2004).
While transport consists schematically of collecting
natural gas at the grid source and routing it to a
designated user, flow control requires specific
methodology. Orchestrated from Pau, the gas
movements involved are based on a detailed daily
weather forecast, and also on consumption logs.
storage
TIGF operates two underground natural gas storage
facilities on the Lussagnet and Izaute sites. Both
underground storage sites hold almost one quarter
of the underground natural gas storage capacity in
France. They supply the entire TIGF grid along with
a portion of the other French grids. Due to their
geographic position, Lussagnet and Izaute are at the
junction of Southern European gas trade.
Injected into the storage facilities during the summer,
natural gas is then extracted during the wintertime to
supply consumers. Storage thus makes to possible to
ensure continuity of supply, while providing any extra
gas required to cover users’ needs at all times.
Highlights of
2015
February
a new shareholder for TIGF:
Predica (Crédit Agricole Assurances)
March
first biomethane connection and injection
contract
April
Trading Region South (TRS)
June
TIGF celebrates 10 years and 70 years
in the Transport sector
November
first injection of biomethane
December
gas connection of Artère de l’Adour pipeline
biomethane
Biomethane is a gas with similar characteristics to natural gas,
produced by recycling household, organic or agricultural waste
and sewage treatment plant sludge. In December 2015, TIGF, with
a key role in the development of this new sector, commissioned
the Biovilleneuvois injection station in Lot et Garonne, capable
of injecting 595 m3(n)/hr into its Transport grid, which is the
largest biomethane injection capacity in France to date.
In this way, TIGF is positioning itself as a major player in the
French biomethane sector, through its ability to mobilise
technical and commercial entities for the benefit of injection
project initiators. Moreover, six further projects are at the study
stage, and will come to fruition from 2017.
The gas sector is evolving and this change should
be used as an opportunity to progress in our
business lines.
Gas has an important role to play in this transition
as it is a non-toxic form of energy (...).
It is a natural partner in the development of
renewable energies which, by their very nature, are
intermittent, without pitting energies against each
other.
Monique Delamare
Managing Director TIGF SA
Employee headcount of
582
24%
14
1
Interns
Biomethane
injection station
nominal diameter
compression
stations
16
%
KM OF PIPELINES
450
326
124
OF FRANCE’S
GAS TRANSPORT
PIPELINE
NETWORK
50 to 900 mm
6
APPRENTICESHIP
CONTRACTS
(438 men/ 144 women)
OF FRENCH
CAPACITIES
%
30
27 5, 136
on fixed-term
and open-ended
contracts
Total installed power
(electricity/gas):
Grid pressure between
delivery stations
OF FRENCH
GAS TRANSITS
THROUGH
THE TIGF GRID
100%
10.5 and 85 bar
public
distribution
delivery
stations
industrial
delivery
stations
3
70 mwh
turnover
€441M
€151
M
investments
YEAR
rd CONSECUTIVE
REDUCED FOR
GREENHOUSE
GAS EMISSIONS
customer satisfaction
(satisfaction survey conducted in the autumn of 2015 on shipper clients
(37 companies represented) to measure the progression of their level
of satisfaction with respect to the service offering in the last 2 years).
Société des Gaz du Sud-Ouest (SNGSO)
Supply to Toulouse
gas well operation Commissioning of the
Lussagnet storage site Supply to Bayonne
Euskadour : Biriatou (64) – Arcangues (64)
Lacal reversibility
2 0 1 5 Artère de l’Adour : Lussagnet (40) Biriatou (64)
F e b . 2 0 1 5 The new shareholder PREDICA joins the consortium
by the SNAM-GIC-EDF consortium
J u l y 2 0 1 3 F inalisation of acquisition of TIGF
2 0 1 3 Girland : Lussagnet (40) Captieux (33)
TIGF becomes Transport Infrastructures Gaz France
of the Total Group Artère du Béarn : Lacq (64) - Lussagnet (40)
May 2012
2 0 1 2 The Third European Directive makes TIGF a specific sector
2010
2 0 0 8 Artère de Guyenne : Captieux (33) Castillon (33)
2 0 0 5 GSO becomes Total Infrastructures Gaz France (TIGF)
2 0 0 2 Lussagnet (40) Captieux (33) section
2 0 0 0 Total Fina & Elf groups merge to form TotalFinaElf
1 9 9 9 Lussan (30) Lias (32) section
1 9 9 8 Lussagnet (40) Coudures (32) section
1 9 9 7 Artère du midi : Fos (13) Cavaou Cruzy (34) Lias (32)
1 9 9 4 SNGSO becomes GSO
1 9 9 3 Lacal : Lacq (64) Port de Larrau (64)
1 9 8 1 Commissioning of the Izaute storage site
1 9 7 6 Creation of Elf Aquitaine
1 9 7 4 Narbonne (11) Perpignan (66) section
1 9 5 7 Commencement of operation of Lacq
1 9 4 8 Supply to Bordeaux
1 9 4 6 Tarbes (65) Pau (64) section
1945
1 9 3 9 Gas well in Saint-Marcet (31)
2015, TIGF marks
70 years in the sector
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