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Sakhalin Energy delivers

first carbon-neutral LNG

ENERGY THE Gazprom-led Sakhalin Energy consortium Sakhalin Energy CEO Roman Dashkov said in
TRANSITION has delivered its first carbon-neutral/offset LNG a statement.
from its terminal on Sakhalin Island to Japan, the Sakhalin Energy previously entered into a
group announced on October 13. decarbonisation pact with Toho Gas. Besides
The cargo was put on board Russia’s Grand Gazprom, the consortium’s members are Royal
Aniva LNG carrier and transported to Japan’s Dutch Shell, and Japanese companies Mitsui and
Toho Gas` Chita terminal in Japan’s Aichi pre- Mitsubishi.
fecture. Its emissions were offset using carbon Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered
credits obtained by Gazprom. Gazprom to look into producing fuel from gas
Moving forward, Sakhalin Energy wants to condensate on Sakhalin Island, the Kremlin said
buy carbon credits from a pilot carbon trading on October 18.
system that is due to start up on Sakhalin next Gazprom will work with regional and federal
year to cover its future LNG supplies. The Far authorities to study the feasibility of producing
Eastern island is striving to become the first Rus- jet fuel, gasoline and diesel in the Far Eastern
sian region to reach carbon neutrality, as soon region, using condensate from its local gas fields
as 2025. as feedstock. Putin also ordered the government
Carbon neutral/offset LNG will be “a com- to submit proposals by December 1 on address-
petitive standard offer for many years ahead,” ing emissions on Sakhalin.™

McDermott set for EP contract

at Ust-Luga petchem complex

PROJECTS & US contractor McDermott International is in president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at
COMPANIES line for an engineering and procurement con- McDermott, commented. “The GCC project is a
tract at an ethane cracker at a large gas petro- game-changer for the Russian Federation mar-
chemicals project in north-west Russia. ket. It is the biggest single contract in the global
The Gas Chemicals Complex (GCC) at the petrochemical field and will be hugely impactful
Baltic port of Ust-Luga is set to be the largest in terms of job creation.”
polyethylene integration project in the world. It McDermott has worked with CC7 before in
is being developed by private Russian company Russia, at the Afipsky hydrocracker project and
Rusgazdobycha and is due online in 2024. the Lukoil delayed coker unit project. It will carry
McDermott has signed a letter of guarantee out work on the GCC ethane cracker from its
with Rusgazdobycha to provide engineering offices in The Hague in the Netherlands, Brno in
and procurement with Chinese partner China the Czech Republic and Gurgaon in India.
National Chemical Engineering and Construc- GCC will be served with feedstock sup-
tion Corporation Seven (CC7). The US company ply from a gas processing complex, also being
will supply the equipment and its other services developed in Ust-Luga by Rusgazdobycha and
for the two-train ethane cracker, which will state-owned partner Gazprom. That project will
produce 2.8mn tonnes per year (tpy) of ethyl- also include an LNG plant, and Gazprom and
ene. The unit will use technology licensed from Rusgazdobycha said earlier this month that they
McDermott’s Lummus subsidiary. were considering the construction of a third liq-
Earlier McDermott provided front-end engi- uefaction train at the planned complex.
neering design (FEED) work for the facility. Linde and Turkey’s Renaissance Heavy
“This additional award is testament to Industries secured an engineering procure-
McDermott’s exemplary performance during ment and construction (EPC) contract for the
the earlier project phases and our ability to pro- liquefaction complex in mid-September, with
vide integrated solutions throughout the entire analysts hailing the award as a sign of concrete
lifecycle of a project,” Tareq Kawesh, senior vice progress at the project.™

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