An Italian company will deliver equipment for “Arctic LNG 2”

A subsidiary of NOVATEK “Arctic LNG 2” and the Italian company Nuovo Pignone signed the contract on delivery of turbo-machinery equipment, including gas turbine compressor aggregates and gas turbine electro-generators for three lines on liquefying of natural gas on the project “Arctic LNG 2”. This information was given in the press service of NOVATEK.

“We have started cooperation with Nuovo Pignone since 2013. The company delivered turbo-compressors of three lines on liquefying for our project “Yamal LNG”, as the chairman of the board of NOVATEK Leonid Mikhelson informs. – “Nuovo Pignone is actively busy with localization of turbo-compressor equipment in Russia. Unique equipment that allows manufacturing 6 million 600 thousand tonnes of LNG per year is necessary for “Arctic LNG 2”. Our cooperation will make preconditions for localization of production of such equipment in our country.

As we should remind, the project “Arctic LNG 2” foresees building of three stages on production of liquefied natural gas with the capacity 6 million 600 thousand tonnes per year each on gravity based structures. The project is being fulfilled on resource base of Utrenneye field in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

On the 1^st of December of 2018 its reserves on Russian classification made 1978 milliard cubic meters of natural gas and 105 million tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons.