据11月30日FleetMon报道，俄罗斯主要液化天然气生产商诺瓦泰克(Novatek)的全资子公司Novatek- western Arctic在巴伦支海基尔丁海峡(Kildin Strait of Barents Sea)完成了俄罗斯首次船对船的液化天然气转运作业。
Arc7冰级液化天然气油轮Nikolay Yevgenov成功地将一艘从Yamal液化天然气设施装载的液化天然气货物重新转载到传统油轮Yamal Spirit上。
该船对船液化天然气加注作业是在摩尔曼斯克港口内的一个临时液化天然气海上转运综合设施进行的。该液化天然气转运设施将确保全年不间断地将冰级油轮上装载着的俄罗斯北极地区生产的液化天然气货物转移到普通的液化天然气油轮上。
诺瓦泰克公司在一份新闻稿中表示，摩尔曼斯克地区的船对船转运设施，是诺瓦泰克公司将液化天然气从俄罗斯北极地区的设施输送到全球天然气消费市场的液化天然气供应链中的又一个重要里程碑。
优化在北极地区的油轮船队以及建立转运基础设施，使诺瓦泰克能够发展其在俄罗斯进行液化天然气转运的内部能力。
Yamal的合资企业拥有4艘正在运营的、以及两艘新建造的、能够穿越北极冰层的Arc 7级液化天然气运输油轮，这些油轮是从诺瓦泰克位于俄罗斯北部Yamal液化天然气工厂运输液化天然气的关键。
王佳晶 摘译自 FleetMon
原文如下：
Russia’s First LNG ship to ship bunkering takes place near Murmansk
Novatek-Western Arctic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia’s major LNG producer Novatek, completed Russia’s first ship-to-ship LNG transshipment in the Kildin Strait of the Barents Sea.
The Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker Nikolay Yevgenov successfully reloaded an LNG cargo delivered from the Yamal LNG facility at Sabetta to the conventional tanker Yamal Spirit.
The ship-to-ship LNG transportation was conducted at a temporary LNG Offshore Transshipment Complex in the Murmansk region within the seaport of Murmansk. The LNG Transshipment Complex will see to the uninterrupted year-round LNG transferral from the ice-class tankers carrying LNG produced in the Russian Arctic to customary LNG tankers.
Novatek, in a press release, said that the ship-to-ship transshipment complex in the Murmansk Region represents another significant milestone in developing Novatek’s LNG supply chain from the LNG facilities located in the Russian Arctic to the global natural gas-consuming markets.
Optimizing the tanker fleet in the Arctic region as well as the creation of the transshipment infrastructure allows the company to develop its internal ability to perform LNG transshipment in Russia.
The Yamal venture owns four operational and two newly built Arc7-class LNG tankers capable of navigating through Arctic ice, making them key to transporting LNG from Novatek's Yamal LNG plant in northern Russia.
