Putin Commissions Kaliningrad LNG
Russia's president Vladimir Putin inaugurated the floating LNG import terminal offshore Kaliningrad and visited a connected salt-cavern gas storage site in the Russian enclave January 8, local media reported. The FLNG terminal is the first in Russia and it had a cool-down cargo delivered last month.
Gazprom is planning to commission the Vyborg LNG terminal north of St Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland to liquefy 660,00o metric tons/yr (about 1bn m3/yr) for Kaliningrad. Privately-owned Novatek operates Yamal LNG, so its vessels regularly sail past on the way to markets in Europe.
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Consumers in the Kaliningrad Region, which is sandwiched between EU members Lithuania and Poland, will be able to receive up to 2.7bn m3/yr of regasified LNG, and Putin said this would free them entirely from any transit risk. However there have not yet been any reported incidents involving interruption to transit to Kaliningrad. Lithuania and Poland also have LNG import terminals but in their case it is in order not to have to import Russian gas which comes by pipeline, and which has, in Poland's case, been interrupted.