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Lithuanian, Polish gas Equinor awards Hammerfest the station further enables the transition to
Developed in cooperation with Volvo,
interconnection GIPL has LNG modification FEED deal cleaner energy sources in the road transport
sector, Gasum said in a statement on
almost reached halfway Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor Thursday.
The new station is located at a major
tagged Aibel for the Hammerfest LNG plant
point in Lithuania modification front-end engineering and heavy transport hub near the Volvo truck
plant and close to the Port of Gothenburg.
design (FEED) job.
Lithuania has completed almost 50% of The deal, awarded by Equinor on behalf “The Nordic gas ecosystem is developing
construction work on the Gas Interconnection of the Snohvit Unit partners, is connected to rapidly. We are investing in the gas filling
Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) pipeline, including the Snøhvit Future project. station network as well as in the entire gas value
the laying of pipes under the rivers Neris The FEED contract has an estimated value chain and biogas production. These all are
and Nemunas, the most complex part of the of NOK140mn ($15.mn), Equinor said in needed in order to secure a reliable supply and
project, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry said its statement. The FEED work will cover availability of gas to meet market demand,” says
on September 2. two sub-projects under the Snøhvit Future Johanna Lamminen, CEO, Gasum.
According to Lithuanian Energy Minister development: onshore compression and Gas is rapidly becoming a preferred fuel
Zygimantas Vaiciunas, the international Hammerfest LNG electrification. in the transport sector globally. LNG ships
GIPL gas pipeline will not only be a pipeline “Snohvit Future is a complex project that are becoming the first choice in the maritime
between Lithuania and Poland, but will also will require large modification work at the sector and several countries incentivize
become the main artery linking together the Hammerfest LNG plant. By awarding the the conversion from diesel to gas in the
gas markets of the entire EU and the Baltic FEED contract to Aibel we enable continuity road transport sector, Gasum noted in its
states and Finland. and experience transfer. Aibel knows the statement. This is why the demand for a
The new pipeline, expected to be plant well, having provided maintenance comprehensive filling station network is
operational by late 2021, will help and modification services there since the growing steadily.
diversify gas supply sources and will allow production start in 2007”, says Peggy Krantz- Located near the Port of Gothenburg, the
more efficient use of the Lithuanian gas Underland, Equinor chief procurement filling station creates further opportunities
transmission system and the Klaipeda LNG officer. for heavy-duty transport to switch to cleaner
terminal, according to the ministry. The first sub-project involves the energy. Today, there are already more than
construction of an onshore compression 170 LNG trucks in use in Sweden and the
station at the Hammerfest LNG plant. As number is rapidly increasing along with
Turkey’s Sasa, US-based the pressure in the wells on the Snøhvit field the gas filling station network and different
decreases, there will be a need for pressure
incentives for low emission solutions.
Koch to build $935mn support to maintain plateau production at
the plant.
petrochemical plant in be expected to contribute to an increase in Neptune Energy begins
The onshore compression station would
Turkey the recovery factor from the Snøhvit field. installing world’s longest
Equinor and partners plan a concept select
Turkish polyester producer Sasa Polyester decision for the compression scope during heated production pipeline
Sanayi and US-based Koch Industries have autumn 2020.
signed an agreement to build a $935mn The second sub-project is related Neptune Energy has announced installation is
purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant. PTA is to investigating electrification of the underway of the world’s longest heated subsea
a key component in polyester production in Hammerfest LNG plant to minimize the production pipeline in the Norwegian sector
eastern Turkey. Snøhvit carbon footprint. By replacing of the North Sea. Once completed, the 36 km
The plant, which will be constructed current gas turbines with power from shore, electrically trace-heated (ETH) pipe-in-pipe
in the province of Adana and completed it may be possible to reduce CO2 emissions solution will transport oil from the Neptune
in 2022, will have an annual production to near zero. Equinor and partners plan a Energy-operated Fenja field to the Njord A
capacity of 1.5mn tonnes, Sasa said in a concept select decision for the electrification platform, operated by Equinor. The first phase
statement. scope at the end of 2020, the statement of the installation saw a 9 km section safely
A company press release added that reads.. installed and successfully tested.
Turkey’s PTA imports stood at 629,000 Neptune Energy’s Director of Projects and
tonnes in 2019 and 410,000 tonnes in the Engineering in Norway, Erik Oppedal, said:
first half of 2020. Gasum opens LNG, LBG “The installation and testing of the ETH pipe
The plant will create 400 new jobs. is a great technical achievement, as well as
With this investment, Sasa will become station in Tuve a milestone in the development of the Fenja
the largest polyester producer in the world field. Norway is an important part of our
after plants in China and India, according The Nordic energy company Gasum has geographically-diverse portfolio and this is
to Ibrahim Erdemoglu, chairman of the expanded its infrastructure in Sweden with an excellent example of Neptune Energy’s
company. a new LNG, LBG fueling station in Tuve, commitment to investing in the region and
Negotiations for another petrochemical Gothenburg. adopting advanced technologies to overcome
facility in Adana’s Yumurtalik district are The new station serves heavy-duty challenges.
currently under way. vehicles by providing liquefied natural gas “The heated pipe-in-pipe solution
(LNG) and liquefied biogas (LBG) as low- permits us to tie the field back to existing
emission fuels. infrastructure, keeping costs low.”

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