The Gazprom Board of Directors expressed its approval of the Company's ongoing projects for the production and supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
It was noted that the Company's work in this promising direction will make it possible to strengthen the position of Gazprom in foreign markets and address in a more flexible manner the tasks related to providing reliable gas supplies to domestic consumers.
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The project for the construction of the LNG production, storage and shipment complex near the Portovaya CS in the
Gazprom pays special attention to the development of small-scale LNG complexes, for instance, those designed to bring gas to localities that are situated far away from gas trunklines. The first of these projects was implemented in the Perm Territory: a small-scale LNG plant and three natural gas receiving, storage and regasification stations have been in operation here since 2014. Access to gas has been provided to over 2,200 households and 10 boiler houses in the Ilyinsky, Karagaisky, and Sivinsky Districts. Gazprom is now working to implement similar projects in the Tomsk and Sakhalin Regions.
The Company is actively working to expand the use of LNG in transport, namely in motor, water and railroad transport. For instance, thermally-insulated containers with liquid helium from the Amur Gas Processing Plant are being transported by special-purpose KAMAZ trucks powered by LNG. In addition, agreements on small-scale LNG complexes in the Amur and Volgograd Regions were signed at
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The Management Committee was tasked with continuing the implementation of the projects for the production and supply of LNG.
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