The start of the production of liquefied natural gas in the port of Vysotsk was given in 2019 in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The capacity of the enterprise is 660 thousand tons per year. This is the first medium-scale LNG production in the Baltic region. The Glavgosexpertiza of Russia has issued a positive opinion on the complex modernization project in order to increase its capacity to 895,000 tons per year.
The Cryogas-Vysotsk LNG plant (the main shareholder is PAO NOVATEK) is located in the northern part of Vysotsky Island in the Vyborg Bay, 90 km from St. Petersburg. Its site includes an LNG storage tank with a capacity of 42 thousand cubic meters. m and an offloading berth for receiving tankers with a capacity of up to 30 thousand cubic meters. m.
The project, which was considered by Glavgosexpertiza of Russia, involves increasing the terminal’s capacity to 895,000 tons per year. This requires work on the construction and modernization of facilities for the production and transshipment of LNG.
“It is planned to increase the volume of natural gas liquefaction in the port of Vysotsk by commissioning a booster compressor unit. It is designed to increase the pressure at the inlet to the Vysotsk LNG-1 terminal and compress the feed gas coming through the main pipelines”, – Andrey Putrya, chief expert of the project of the GEP Service on production facilities of the Glavgosexpertiza of Russia, explained. The capacity of the booster compressor unit is 2.5 MW.
“Design solutions ensure safe operation and protection of LNG terminal facilities in the port of Vysotsk”, – stressed the chief expert of the project Andrei Putria.
The developer is Cryogas-Vysotsk LLC.
The general designer is OOO Institute YUZHNIIGIPROGAZ.
Photo: Yuri Belinsky / ITAR-TASS
