With President Vladimir Putin in attendance, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom commissioned an offshore gas receiving terminal and a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) called Marshal Vasilevsky on January 8 in the Kaliningrad Region.

Earlier, Gazprom set up the Kaliningradskoye underground gas storage (UGS) facility and increased the throughput capacity of the Minsk – Vilnius – Kaunas – Kaliningrad gas pipeline, the only route for gas deliveries to Russia’s westernmost constituent entity until now.

In order to further enhance energy security in Russia’s Baltic exclave Kaliningrad Region, taking into account the geographical setting, Gazprom carried out an alternative gas supply project focused on LNG deliveries by sea, Gazprom said, adding that gas receiving terminal based in the Baltic Sea and onshore was built in the Kaliningrad Region.

 

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