Regional Focus: Gazprom faces challenges for combined LNG/processing plant in Baltics

E. Gerden, Contributing Writer Russia’s largest natural gas producer, Gazprom, aims to build a giant project on the Russian Baltic seaport of Ust-Luga. The plans include the construction of a combined LNG and gas processing plant. The project would be jointly implemented by Gazprom with domestic oil and gas producer JSC Rusgazdobycha, after Shell dropped out of the project. Direct management of the new plant would be carried out through a JV, which would also serve as the official operator of the project. The complex is planned to process up to 45 Bm3y of wet natural gas and produce approximately 13 metric MMtpy of LNG, 4 metric MMtpy of ethane and more than 2.2 metric MMtpy of liquefied h