FSUOGM: Gazprom finishes tests at Kaliningrad FSRU

Gazprom has completed tests at its 174,000-cubic metre Marshal Vasilevskiy floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) off the coast of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.

In a statement last week, the company said it had completed scheduled maintenance checks at the FSRU’s systems and equipment, as well as at its offshore receiving terminal. The unit has been delivering regasified LNG to the Kaliningrad grid for about two weeks now, according to Gazprom.

The company noted that the FSRU and the LNG receiving terminal were “technically complex objects” and required periodic checks of their work in the climatic conditions of the Baltic Sea, partly during autumn and winter. The LNG that the FSRU receives comes from Gazprom’s Portovaya liquefaction terminal in the Leningrad region. Commercial operations at that facility were launched in September.

The Kaliningrad region, surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, currently receives gas via the 2.5bn cubic metre per year Minsk-Vilnius-Kaunas-Kaliningrad pipeline from Russia via Belarus and Lithuania. But Moscow is concerned that there could be an interruption in supplies amid political fallout from its invasion of Ukraine.

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