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Contract Awarded for Lithuanian LNG Bunker Station
Cleveland-based Chart Industries Inc. Friday announced that its wholly owned Czech subsidiary Chart Ferox (Chart) and consortium partner, PPS Pipeline Systems Germany, have been selected to provide an liquefied natural gas (LNG) reloading station for AB Klaipėdos nafta at the Port of Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Five Chart cryogenic storage tanks, each measuring over 50 meters in length with an external diameter of almost six meters, will provide 5,000 cubic meters of LNG storage at the station, which will be equipped with two loading areas for LNG trucks and jetty modules for ship bunkering.
"We are delighted with this prestigious award and excited to be working with our new partner, PPS Pipeline Systems. Both companies are experts in their respective fields with the experience and pedigree to deliver the project within an extremely aggressive timescale," said Miroslav Cerny, Business Director of Chart Ferox.
The LNG reloading station will be operational within 15 months with "full scope" delivery anticipated during the second half of 2017.
The consortium will deliver equipment engineering, production, installation, and commissioning, together with construction of the associated infrastructure for €27.7 million (US $30.3 million).
The contract needs to be approved by shareholders of AB Klaipėdos nafta; assuming that happens, Chart will supply nearly 50 percent of the total award value of the contract.
The LNG regasification facility will have the capacity to provide 6000 Nm3/hour of natural gas.
The plant design will incorporate a potential for a future doubling of capacity.
The main project aim is to develop Klaipeda as a Baltic hub and virtual pipeline to fuel ships and deliver LNG by truck to reduce the traditional dependence on imported pipeline gas.
In April 2012 Ship & Bunker reported that Chart Ferox had been awarded a contract to design, build and deliver an LNG fuel system for a turbine powered fast ferry to be built by Incat (Australia) and destined for service in Latin America.
