Świnoujście liquid gas terminal
The Świnoujście liquefied natural gas terminal is an LNG import terminal in the Polish city of Świnoujście (Swinoujscie). Since June 2016 it has officially been called the “ Lech-Kaczyński ” terminal.
Planning and construction
The construction was decided in 2009 with the "Law on a liquid gas terminal". The project was started by PGNiG and later continued by Polskie LNG . The construction costs were set at EUR 950 million.
The systems were designed by SNC Lavalin . Construction began in 2011 and the opening has been postponed several times. On December 11, 2015, the first LNG tanker docked in Swinoujscie.
Re-evaporation
The terminal is designed for re-evaporation of up to 5 billion m³ of natural gas per year, with the possibility of increasing the capacity up to 7.5 billion m³. Two tanks with 160,000 m³ are to be built. Due to the low temperature of the Baltic Sea, its water cannot be used to re-evaporate the liquefied gas. Instead, SCV evaporators (from English submerged combustion vaporisers ) are used, in which the liquefied gas is heated in the water bath by a gas burner that consumes around 1.4% of the gas.
Port expansion
For the new LNG terminal, a new outer port was built in the Baltic Sea northeast of the existing port facilities on the Świna in Swinoujscie , which is separated from it by a new pier . In order to enable ships of the Q-Flex class with a tank volume of 216,000 m³ and a length of 315 m to moor, the fairway and the new harbor basin (Port Zewnętrzny) were deepened to 14.5 m.
Gas deliveries and imports for third countries
A contract was signed with Qatargas from Qatar for the delivery of one million tons of liquefied natural gas at around 550 million US dollars annually from 2014 to 2034; the first delivery was originally supposed to take place between June and December 2014.
Excess capacity could accommodate imported gas for third countries, e.g. B. for Denmark via the so far only roughly planned gas pipeline Baltic Pipe or for Germany via a new pipeline towards Lubmin to OPAL or into the existing network towards Frankfurt to JAGAL .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terminal LNG w Świnoujściu nosi od dziś imię Lecha Kaczyńskiego . In: Polskie Radio . June 18, 2016 ( polskieradio.pl ).
- ↑ a b LNG Terminal Swinoujscie: Non-technical summary (NTS) November 2010
- ↑ Swinoujscie LNG Gas Terminal, Poland from January 8, 2013
- ↑ a b Construction of the natural gas terminal is delayed. 18 September 2013
- ↑ Opóźnienie w budowie terminalu LNG oficjalnie zatwierdzone ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 10, 2013
- ↑ First LNG tanker in Świnoujście ( Memento of the original dated November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 15, 2015
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 33 ″ N , 14 ° 17 ′ 41 ″ E