LNG Gorskaya set to have its floating storage unit built at shipyard Maris
LNG Gorskaya LLC involved in Saint-Petersburg based project on establishment of an LNG plant with an export terminal and a bunkering fleet is set to build a non-self-propelled barge with an onboard re-gasification plant for selling LNG Gorskaya product when deployed in a European port. The Company says the barge of 7,000 cbm in capacity will be built by Maris LLC which has already developed the conceptual design of the facility.
The barge of 125.8 m in length, 24 m in width and 8.6 m in depth will have on its deck 12 tanks of with capacity of 584 cbm each.
Maris LLC (Astrakhan) specializes in managing the construction of unique maritime facilities.
LNG-Gorskaya LLC is involved in the project on creation of an LNG company with its own fleet to deliver LNG to European consumers and to bunker vessels in the water area of the Gulf of Finland.
The project implies the construction of a floating LNG plant with annual capacity of 1.26 mln t of LNG, 9 bunkering tankers, pier, loading rack and gas pipeline, as well as the creation of several LNG terminals outside Russia: in Finland, Germany and Sweden.
Liquefied natural gas will be produced by a complex assembled on a non-self-propelled barge. The plant will be able to process 1.968 bln cbm of gas per year. LNG-Gorskaya LLC is going to put the complex into operation and to start selling LNG in late 2017. The project is to become fully operational in 2021.
