“Yamal LNG” project news

The French company Technip, together with its Japanese partners JGC and Chiyoda, has signed a €4.5 billion contract with Yamal LNG to build a natural gas liquefaction plant with a capacity of 16.5 million tonnes per year, the company announced.

“The situation in Ukraine has in no way affected the project,” Technip CEO Thierry Pilenko told the newspaper Les Echos. “I believe the energy sector will not be affected by these events, given its importance both for Russia and for Europe.”

The LNG complex will consist of three trains of 5.5 million tonnes per year each. According to the French oilfield services company, “the plant being built in Russia will become one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world.”

According to Technip, preliminary work on the project had been under way for 14 months. Given the extremely harsh climate of the Yamal Peninsula, this included numerous feasibility studies, engineering calculations and expert assessments.

Because of the cold climate in the region, the French engineers concluded that pre-assembled modular units delivered to the construction site were the best approach. “Such large-scale pre-assembly allows us to plan the start-up of the first phase of the project in 2017,” the company said.