Russia’s Novatek announced recently that Cryogas-Vysotsk, a joint venture with Gazprombank, has produced its one million ton of liquefied natural gas (LNG) since the project commenced operations in 2019. (Photo quoted from Novatek’s official website)

Cyrogas-Vysotsk is a medium-tonnage LNG project located in the port of Vysotsk, Leningrad Region of Russia on the Baltic Sea. The project’s design capacity is 660 thousand tons of LNG per annum, and its infrastructure includes a 42 thousand cubic meters LNG storage tank and an offloading berth designed to handle LNG carriers with a capacity of up to 30 thousand cubic meters. Novatek acquired a 51% participation interest in Cryogas-Vysotsk project in July 2017.

During this period, Cryogas-Vysotsk has dispatched more than 200 LNG carriers and 1,200 trucks to a diverse geography including Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Estonia, Poland and Spain. The project supplied more than 80 trucks to the Russian domestic market as part of Novatek’s commercial activities to provide clean-burning LNG for the consumers in the Murmansk region and the company’s network of LNG fueling stations.

Novatk’s Chairman of the Management Board Leonid Mikhelson commented “Cryogas-Vysotsk has a broad and diverse geography of customers as this important project serves the entire Baltic region clean-burning natural gas needs amid tightening environmental requirements for marine and automotive fuels”.

(IRuniverse)

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