Skangass Awards Linde Group Contract to Build Sweden's Second LNG Terminal

Skangass AS has commissioned technology company Linde Group to build a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the west coast of Sweden, in Lysekil, 100 kilometres north of Gothenburg, Sweden.

The corresponding engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract is worth around € 44 million.   Operations are planned to start spring 2014 and the LNG terminal will supply natural gas to the nearby Preem refinery as well as LNG for industrial and transportation applications.

Works include the integration of the cryogenic tank structures to be erected by a third party.

Linde built Sweden’s first LNG terminal in Nynashamn last year. The new terminal will have storage capacity of 30,000 cubic metres of LNG, compared with 20,000 cubic metres at Nynashamn, and will include a truck filling station.

Nearby Gothenburg is one of Sweden's key industrial areas and northern Europe's largest port of export. It is located in a so-called "Emission Control Area" (ECA), where stricter sulphur emission limits will become applicable in January 2015.