Industry and Nature Side-By-Side
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SOUTH HOOK LNG Issue 9 2018 Industry and Nature Read inside: Welcoming the Secretary of State for side-by-side Wales to the Terminal The South Hook LNG Staff Community Days The important role that South Hook LNG plays in supporting the UK’s energy needs Your Safety Moment: Cyber Security - helping to keep your personal information safe Rare species of butterfly recorded in our Nature Conservation Area Giving students an insight into working life Supporting our staff volunteers and fundraisers in the community Challenging schools to 'Discover History' for our annual calendar competition! ww w.southhooklng.com Issue 6Is sWuein t5e rS 2p0ri1n5g/ 20156 1 South Hook LNG in the community Our achievements Emergency response preparation and training COMAH Alarm Welcome... A special alarm, known as a to the 2018 edition of our Seasons Community Newsletter. COMAH Alarm, will be sounded in the unlikely event of an incident at Through the pages of this Newsletter, we share with you some of our achievements at site that may have implications for South Hook LNG Terminal, over the course of the past twelve months. Marking a those within our Public Information particularly important milestone for us in October 2018, was the arrival of our first cargo from Zone (PIZ). The COMAH alarm can the United States. be clearly heard outside the South Hook LNG site. Continuing our close working relationship with Pembrokeshire’s first line response Agencies, The COMAH Alarm sound has a we hosted a familiarisation visit earlier in the year, welcoming representatives of Dyfed Powys distinctive sound - Police, Pembrokeshire County Council, the Fire Service, the Welsh Ambulance Trust, Milford an intermittent tone. If you would Haven Port Authority and Natural Resources Wales (NRW). The visit was an important The All Clear Alarm is a single prefer to receive future opportunity to continue building relationships with local Agencies, and supported the full continuous tone and this tone South Hook LNG Seasons Emergency Preparedness Exercise that we held during November. will be sounded when the incident Newsletters electronically, is over. you can download a copy from our website We have also been pleased to welcome a number of guests to the Terminal, including the Rt. Hon COMAH Alarm Test Dates www.southhooklng.com Alun Cairns MP, Secretary of State for Wales, as well as representatives of our Shareholder Please contact us if you wish You can hear to be removed from our companies, who enjoyed a tour of the Terminal during a cold, but beautiful Autumn day. these alarms postal list. Care for the environment remains a strong focus for us at South Hook LNG and we work when they are tested on the closely with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority (PCNPA) to manage an area to first Tuesday of the west of our site, known as the Nature Conservation Area (NCA). Page 8 of this newsletter The COMAH (Control of Major and engagement with external Accident Hazard) Regulations 2015 set agencies, regarding their roles and every quarter at shares with you some of the species that a team of local expert ecologists recently discovered out by the Health & Safety Executive responsibilities in an emergency at site. 2.30pm and in the NCA; one of these being a particularly important find for Pembrokeshire. (HSE), aim to prevent major accidents again at In line with COMAH Regulations and 7.30pm: We have continued a busy programme of activities in our community over the past twelve from happening and in the unlikely integral to our regular testing, we • January months, helping local projects that focus on the South Hook LNG values of safety, event that one does occur, aim to limit recently completed a full-scale the consequences to our neighbours • April environment, wellbeing and education. As well as the direct financial assistance that we are exercise, which included the invaluable and to our environment. • July able to offer, we have supported many of our staff, as they dedicate their time to volunteering involvement of the emergency services Training staff who are involved in and other responding agencies such • October and fundraising activities. Much of this newsletter focusses on their personal stories. emergency planning and response is as NRW . The fridge fundamental to an organisation’s magnet, enclosed Instructions ability to handle any type of d Emergency Welcoming our first formation an one (PIZ) with this newsletter, informs you of Safety In c Information Z ook LNG Publi cargo from the US, emergency. South Hook LNG has an for the South H the quarterly test dates for 2019. marking an ongoing programme of emergency r Community Pop it on your fridge to remind u ston O brand r G Terminal, He important milestone exercises, forming a critical part of South Hook LN yourself of these dates. at the Terminal. our emergency preparedness. In Do you know what the 2018, a range of training has taken So uth Hook LNG Terminal COMAH Alarm sounds Emerg place, including desktop exercises ency Instructions Card This card is magnetic for u like? se on your fridge so you can it quickly, if nece find ssary. Please ensure this ca pro rd is left at the perty to which it has been posted if you move house. Telephone Freephone: Cont rols of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 0800 046 3470 to listen to Please read this inform ation carefully and share Community safety your family. it with the COMAH Alarm and Please co-operate with any instructions or req made by S uests outh Hook LNG or the loc the All Clear Alarm. S al Emergency ervices during an incident. information In the unlikely eve nt that an incident ha sit s an effect off- The Freephone message e, the South Hook LNG CO MAH Alarm will alert you. 8 The COMAH Alarm h as a distinctive sound - an also repeats the emergency COMAH Regulations also state that intermittent tone 8 The All Clear is a sin gle continuous tone wh you will hear wh ich instructions provided in the we must provide information to en the incident is over The Alarm is tested quarterly, on the first Tues January, A day in pril, July and October. The t Community Safety residents and businesses within a 2 est will sound at .30pm and again at 7.30pm Information booklet. specified area, known as the Public For further information: place. Call free on eep it in a safe 0800 046 3470 booklet and k it Information Zone (PIZ). Our community ase read this perty to which Ple left at the pro South Hook the booklet is LNG has set up a dedic Ensure ve house. ated sted if you mo community telephone booklet, shown here, provides details has been po line: 01437 782012 ter 2016. This specific COMAH Distributed Win Notification Arrangements have been m of the necessary actions to take in the ade with the local radio sta Alarm is only sounded if programmes and i tions to interrupt ssue emergency informatio in the un n to you in our local comm unlikely event of an emergency at our likely event of an incident. unity, there is a potential for an Local radio stations will be used to keep you fully situation throu briefed on any emergency gh regular bulletins on air. All information is correct site. As a courtesy, we also ensure that our closest event at site to have off- Please visit u s @SouthHookLNG in the inf event of an emergency for at the time of printing. neighbours, who live just outside the PIZ, receive the ormation or visit our website updated at www.southhooklng.com site effects. This newsletter is booklet too. You can also find this booklet and other printed using vegetable- emergency information, on our website: based inks, FSC paper Yari LNG at berth and is fully recyclable. www.southhooklng.com/community-and-environment/emergency-information/ 2 Issue 9 2018 Issue 9 2018 3 Our activities Our activities South Hook LNG has 43 members been receiving LNG since of staff have achieved commissioning in 2009 10 years’ Whilst we have the ability service with The LNG starts its 6,140 and plays a crucial role to provide around 20% of South Hook LNG. nautical mile voyage from Qatar UK natural gas needs, we Since the receipt of the through the Arabian Gulf, Red in contributing to the have also demonstrated the first cargo in March 2009, Sea, Suez Canal and the flexibility of the Terminal, the Terminal has Mediterranean to reach Milford UK’s energy needs. delivering just over 30% of processed around 61 Haven in West Wales. The voyage the country's gas during one million tonnes of LNG - takes around 18 days. Take the particular day, providing enough natural gas that, journey by clicking on the Supply security for homes, if supplying London alone, Chain animation on our website: businesses and industry would keep the city going www.southhooklng.com/ Liquefied Natural Gas across the UK. for approximately liquefied-natural-gas/ (LNG) is natural gas, mainly 10 years. the-supply-chain/ methane (CH4) that has During the first nine been condensed into a years of operation, Natural gas burns liquid by cooling it to South Hook LNG has more cleanly and approximate minus 160 ˚ C. received almost 600 efficiently than other LNG takes up about 1/600th vessels and regasified fossil fuels, with the volume of natural gas in around three quarters carbon emission its gaseous state, making it of the total LNG significantly lower easier to ship. imported into the UK. than coal. A view of the Al Mayeda at berth, taken on a misty morning from Angle.