NOVATEK is constructing an LNG terminal in Bechevinskaya Bay in Kamchatka and its sister facility in the Murmansk region

January 22 2024 

The first shipments of LNG via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) to Kamchatka will begin in 2024. Mr. Vladimir Solodov, Governor of the Kamchatka Territory announced this following the results of a meeting chaired by Mr. Yuri Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and  Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

“Now a decision has been made to build LNG supply and distribution infrastructure in Kamchatka. This became possible thanks to the flagship strategic project to create a hub for LNG transshipment, which is transported by the NOVATEK company along the NSR. The first shipments under this project will begin in 2024,” Mr. Solodov is quoted as saying on the Kamchatka government website.

A local LNG supply & distrubution infrastructure is to be created on the peninsula; project documentation has now been developed; a regasification facility and shuttle vessels have been ordered through NOVATEK’s investments. Federal budget funds will provide 12 billion rubles for constructing land distrubution infrastructure.

As PortNews reported, NOVATEK is constructing an LNG terminal in Bechevinskaya Bay in Kamchatka and its analogue in the Murmansk region. The terminals are designed for transshipment of LNG from ice-class gas carriers traveling along the Northern Sea Route from the Ob’ Bay area, short-term storage of LNG in floating gas storage facilities and its shipment to gas carriers that do not have ice reinforcement. Part of the gas delivered to the offshore transshipment complex in Bechevinskaya Bay will be used to meet the municipal needs of the Kamchatka Territory. The first floating gas storage facility, UGS ‘Koryak’, was delivered to the construction site of NOVATEK’s Eastern offshore transshipment facility in July 2023.

Source: https://portnews.ru/news/358709/