he company "Arkticheskaya Perevalka" (founder - PAO "NOVATEK"), implementing the project of marine transshipment complexes (MTC) of liquefied natural gas in the Murmansk region and Kamchatka, received the status of a resident of the territory of advanced development (TOR) "Capital of the Arctic". Under the agreement with the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and Arctic (KRDV), the company plans to make capital investments of over 2.4 billion rubles and create new jobs in the region. 

The IPC project involves the delivery of LNG from the Arctic hydrocarbon deposits of the Russian Federation to marine transshipment complexes by ice-class gas tankers. The LNG will then be transshipped to floating gas storage facilities (UGS) for short-term storage or by the "ship-to-ship" method to conventional vessels.

Each complex (in the Murmansk region and Kamchatka) will have one floating gas storage facility and two roadstead anchorages for “ship-to-ship” operations, which will ensure annual transshipment at each of them in the amount of more than 20 million tons.

The Murmansk transshipment complex is located in the waters of the Ura Bay of the Barents Sea. The project also plans to place an auxiliary berth for mooring of port fleet vessels with coastal infrastructure, including an administrative building for housing state control bodies and a checkpoint across the state border of the Russian Federation. The facilities of the temporary offshore transshipment complex for transshipment of LNG "board to board" are located in the waters of the Kildin Strait.

"Our project will improve the efficiency of logistics and competitiveness in the global market of LNG projects implemented in the Russian Federation, as well as increase the potential for cargo turnover of the Northern Sea Route and reduce the distance of using ice-class LNG tankers with higher freight costs, reducing the cost of LNG delivery to consumers," said Yuri Safyanov, General Director of Arcticheskaya Perevalka LLC.

The implementation of the investment project for marine liquefied natural gas handling complexes, which will become an integral part of the logistics scheme of the existing and prospective LNG projects of PAO NOVATEK, is proceeding at an accelerated pace. To date, within the framework of the project in the Murmansk Region, design and survey work has been completed, design documentation has been developed, positive conclusions of state examinations have been received, the construction of hydraulic structures and the structural part of the administrative building, where interior finishing work is underway, has been completed. In the waters of the Kildin Strait, 2 roadstead places for LNG handling according to the "ship-to-ship" scheme have been built and put into operation, and equipment for such operations has been purchased.

Let us recall that, according to the Decree of the President of Russia, by 2024, cargo turnover along the Northern Sea Route should be increased to 80 million tons per year. In addition, the IPC LNG is included in the federal project "Sea Ports of Russia" of the Comprehensive Plan for the Modernization and Expansion of Trunk Infrastructure for the Period up to 2024, approved by the order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

"Today, on the territory of the only Arctic priority development area - "Arctic Capital" - with the help of government support measures, a modern technical base for LNG technologies in Russia is being created. Residents are implementing powerful investment projects aimed at ensuring the production, storage and shipment of LNG directly from the terminal to a tanker for further transportation of LNG along the Northern Sea Route to destinations. All of them will contribute to the development of the production potential of the Murmansk Region and strengthening the export positions of our country. The number of new jobs in the field of engineering development and production is growing in the region, and investors, in turn, receive tax benefits, including on profits and on insurance premiums," said Sergey Skaly, Deputy General Director for Investment Project Support at the Far East Development Corporation.

"The implementation of the project has a significant social effect for the Murmansk region. Within the framework of the concluded agreement, the volume of tax revenues will be at least 5,418 million rubles, of which 510 million rubles will go to the regional budget. Thanks to the implementation of the project, the infrastructure will improve. Thus, it is planned to build an automatic radio technical post on the territory of the region to provide radio relay communication, install navigation equipment. A section of the sea checkpoint across the state border of the Russian Federation will also be organized. In addition, the implementation of the project involves the creation of new jobs in the Murmansk region. It should be especially emphasized that the main part of the professions required for the operation of the transshipment complex are ship crews, mechanics, fitters, dispatchers, that is, those professions that are widely represented in the labor market of the Murmansk region," emphasized Deputy Governor of the Murmansk region Olga Kuznetsova.

According to the KRDV Murmansk, 9 residents are implementing projects worth more than 164 billion rubles, of which 91.8 billion rubles have already been invested in the region’s economy; 2.4 thousand people have found jobs at new enterprises.

/ Ministry of Information Policy of the Murmansk Region for information of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation /

https://gov-murman.ru/info/news/478134/