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back to around AUD4 this year. The price spike Daniel Toleman told NewsBase.
followed the start-up three world-class coal-bed However, Australia’s gas prices are anticipated
methane (CBM) liquefaction and export pro- to rise again in the future despite mounting
jects on the country’s east coast, with the decline pressure from the local manufacturing industry
attributed to tapering Asian demand and rising campaign for prices to remain low to help sup-
global supply. port economic growth.
“[C]urrent domestic prices have softened due “Fundamentally the Australian east coast
to low LNG prices. Queensland LNG operators gas market is short of gas from the early-to-mid
are now looking to divert cargoes that were des- 2020s. As a result, we do not expect east coast
tined for the LNG spot market to the east coast gas prices near AUD4 per GJ,” Toleman said.
domestic gas market. As a result, the eastern “LNG import projects are unlikely to bring the
seaboard gas spot prices have fallen and this will price down. Import terminals are likely to be
persist until the global LNG markets dynam- the marginal cost of supply, thus creating a price
ics rebalance,” Wood Mackenzie senior analyst floor.” ™

EUROPE

Russia picks contractors for

Utrenny LNG terminal

PROJECTS TWO contractors have been selected by the Rus- will enable it to handle the exports of a less-ad-
sian state to build the Utrenny terminal at the vanced LNG project Novatek is developing, Arc-
Arctic port of Sabetta, which will handle LNG tic LNG-1.
and condensate exports from Novatek’s Arctic Another Rosatom subsidiary, Atomener-
LNG-2 plant. gomash, is helping Novatek develop domes-
In a statement on July 3, Russian state nuclear tic high-tonnage gas liquefaction technology,
firm Rosatom said its subsidiary Hydrographic although the technology at Arctic LNG-2 is
Enterprise had won a contract for the project being supplied by Germany’s Linde. MRTS
jointly with Mezhregiontruboprovodstroi helped build the Sabetta port, and also worked
(MRTS), a Moscow-based pipelaying company. at the Portovaya LNG bunkering plant near St
The deal, worth RUB95.7bn ($1.33bn), will Petersburg, an LNG import terminal in the Rus-
see the pair dredge the sea floor around Sabetta, sian exclave of Kaliningrad and several other
build over 4.4 km of ice-resistant pipelines and Gazprom projects.
erect navigation and border checkpoint facilities. In related news, French LNG tech firm GTT
The work can only take place when the waters said on July 3 it had secured an order from the
around Sabetta are ice-free, which is only 60-70 Zvezda shipyard in the Russian Far East for the
days per year. It should be completed in 2022, a design of the tanks of five Arc7 ice-breaking
year ahead of Arctic LNG-2’s launch. LNG carriers (LNGCs) that will carry Arctic
Arctic LNG-2 will produce up to 19.8mn LNG-2’s gas.
tonnes per year (tpy) of LNG at full capacity. Zvezda, managed by a state consortium of
Novatek has a 60% share in the project, while Rosneftegaz, Rosneft and Gazprombank, is
the remaining interests are split between France’s the centrepiece in Moscow’s drive to expand
Total, China’s CNPC and CNOOC Ltd., and domestic shipbuilding and reducing reliance on
Japan’s Mitsui & Co and JOGMEC. imported vessels. GTT earlier signed a technical
Funding for the Utrenny terminal will come assistance and licence agreement with the ship-
from Russia’s state budget. Its cost was estimated yard, making the order of tank designs possible.
at RUB100bn ($1.6bn) last summer, but its GTT has also been picked to design and con-
export capacity has since been enlarged from struct the storage tanks of Arctic LNG-2’s three
21.6mn tpy to 43.2mn tpy of hydrocarbons. This gravity-based structures (GBSs).™

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