American Company interested in construction of LNG terminal in Ukraine

American oil and gas Company Frontera Resources Corporation is interested in building an LNG terminal the black sea coast of Ukraine for supplies of liquefied natural gas from Georgia, said the Director of business development of the NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine" Yuriy Vitrenko.
"The firm plans to use the LNG terminal to supply gas from its fields in Georgia is projected through its gasification terminal on the black sea coast of Georgia, ? wrote Vitrenko on his page on Fecebook.
He said that before the problems with implementation of the project of construction of LNG terminal in Ukraine were caused by the difficulties that could arise with obtaining permits for the passage of vessels with liquefied gas through the Bosporus Strait." The Frontera Resources project this problem is not, as the gas required to go from Georgia to the Black sea", - has specified Vitrenko." Frontera Resources has agreed its recoverable prospective resources at the level of 300 billion Cube. M.(which covers all the requirements of Ukraine's imports In a period of fifteen years based on the current volume of imports, and we plan significant reduction), we expressed readiness to seriously work on this Project, " ? emphasizes authorized Naftogaz. According to Vitrenko, together with this project will be studied the possibility and application of Naftogaz GTS for pumping gas transit to the European Union." On the financing of the project from the Ukrainian side not the issue at all. In the field of gas production in Ukraine we are interested not only investment opportunities Frontera Resources", - has noted the Director. Remember, the Ukrainian authorities are not 1st year involve the construction of an LNG terminal in the Odessa region. For example, in November 2011, a delegation of the state Agency for investment and national projects of Ukraine presented the leaders of the global oil and gas market in the U.S. Houston national Project LNG terminal. Then the participants of the presentation were American organization Halliburton, Cameron, Baker Hughes, Kvaerner. In September 2011 it was declared that the winner of the tender for the feasibility study of the national project LNG-terminal is defined by a Spanish Company Socoin Engineering construction Yard Industrial. Estimated Price of construction of LNG terminal infrastructure is about 1, 5 billion dollars. Jordi Sarda Bonvehi, November 26, on behalf of the Spanish Gas Natural Fenosa signed an agreement with Ukraine On the construction of a terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG terminal), was an entrepreneur from Barcelona, 20 years has worked as a ski instructor. However, later on, Gas Natural Fenosa said her Commissioners did not participate in the signing ceremony, the Firm has no plans to participate in the consortium for the construction of an LNG terminal and she did not know about this project.


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