Yamal LNG Outperforms in H1 2019
The Yamal LNG plant in Russia's far north has overproduced this year compared with nameplate capacity, operator Novatek said July 2. It has produced 9mn metric tons, equivalent to 18mn mt/yr, while the nameplate capacity is 16.5mn mt/yr, implying 8.25mn mt output for the first six months. It also produced 600,000 mt of stable condensate, it said.
All three LNG trains, each of 5.5mn mt/yr were running above nameplate capacity in the first half of 2019. For the same period, 126 LNG tanker shipments were dispatched. Most of the LNG was transshipped from the ice-class LNG carriers to conventional vessels in Norway and delivered to the markets. From the start of transshipment in November 2018, 123 ship-to-ship transfer operations have been conducted.
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A fourth train is to be built, using Russian technology and to a smaller size, producing about 0.9mn mt/yr.