Linde Wins Baltic mini-LNG Contract

German technology company Linde Group has been selected by Gazprom and Russian SRDI Oil & Gas Peton to work on a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) production, storage and shipment complex in Portovaya, on Russia's Baltic Sea coast, it said February 7.

The plant will liquefy natural gas from the nearby compressor station which is part of Gazprom’s 55bn m³/yr Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Nord Stream 2, coming on stream in 2019, starts from a different point. Such plants may be used to supply LNG for the bunkering or trucking market, although Gazprom's Baltic LNG project has a similar aim.

“Gazprom’s Portovaya LNG Project, which was jointly developed with the Russian engineering holding Peton, is of utmost importance for us as it represents another milestone for the successful strategic co-operation between Gazprom and Linde in the area of cryogenic natural gas processing and liquefaction,” said Linde CEO Aldo Belloni. “With a yearly capacity of around 1.5mn metric tons of LNG, the plant fits very well into Linde’s LNG plant portfolio, bridging the gap between small and world-scale LNG projects.” No value was disclosed.

A small LNG plant, Stavanger

(Credit: Linde)

The plant will use Linde's multi-stage mixed refrigerant process and its proprietary coil-wound heat exchangers. Under the contract with Peton, Linde will perform basic engineering for the plant and supply equipment. The two are already co-operating on the Amur gas Gas Processing Plant (Amur GPP), in the far east of Russia. 

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