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Ten-year plan tor of Engineering and Investment Department. “The
philosophy of Center draws largely on the GBS design
LNG Construction Center is a project owned by concept for the Arctic LNG 2’ LNG train. We expect
Novatek and is operated by Novatek’s daughter No- Center to become a manufacturer of all components
vatek-Murmansk. Being Russia’s core producer of of high-tonnage LNG trains on transportable GBS
LNG, Novatek has built Center to be its manufacturer platforms. An enterprise of this kind never existed in
of LNG trains. “A plant producing plants”, such is the Russia. Actually, there aren’t many of its kind in the
definition of this huge premise for the production and world, I mean facilities that can combine large-ton-
assembly of gravity-based substructures (GBS), LNG nage reinforced concrete production with the manu-
equipment, large-sized modules and LNG trains. Arc- facture of steel structures for further assembly into
tic LNG 2 is the first, and certainly not the last, proj- modules.”
ect Center manufactures for.
“LNG Construction Center isn’t a temporary proj- Last-minute construction
ect but a facility with long-term production plans. It
has a portfolio of LNG train orders with a timeline of Novatek-Murmansk, a company started for the
SOZVEZDYE #42 ten years,” says Dmitry Zagranichny, Novatek Direc- purposes Center under the name of Kola Shipyard,

Arctic LNG 2 is Novatek’s second major LNG The project has been built to serve the Utren-
проект project. Its design concept uses as foundation for neye oil and gas condensate field on the Gydan
project LNG trains a gravity-based substructure. Their man- Peninsula in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,
which lies around 70 kilometers away from Yamal
ufacture and assembly takes place in Murmansk.
The LNG trains are towed upon completion to site LNG (on the opposite shore of the Gulf of Ob). The
in the Gulf of Ob. Each train has a capacity of 6.6 Utrenneye field is estimated to contain 1.5 trillion
mtpa, while the designed capacity of the entire pro- cubic meters of gas. Once up and running, Arctic
ject stands at 19.8 million tons of LNG and around LNG 2 will increase the global production of liq-
14 1.6 million tons of stable gas condensate per annum. uefied natural gas by 5%.