Gazprom rotates turbines

Sergey Kondratiev, Deputy Head of the Economic Department of the Institute for Energy and Finance, commented to the Kommersant newspaper about the construction of the Baltic LNG plant.

According to Kommersant, Russian GTD-110M turbines can be purchased for the Ruskhimalliance’s LNG plant in Ust-Luga (50% each from Gazprom and Rusgazdobycha). These machines will be installed instead of Japanese gas turbines by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which refused to fulfill the contract. Compressors for the project, which were also supposed to be supplied by the Japanese, can be ordered from Kazancompressormash.

Changing the pool of suppliers means making serious changes to the project documentation, it will take a lot of time and, of course, re-passing the state examination, Sergey Kondratiev says. This, according to him, could lead to a delay of 12-15 months. Based on the fact that initially the project assumed the construction of two lines of the LNG plant with the installation of two H100 GTU with a capacity of 115 MW for each stage, and now Ruskhimalliance replaces them with turbines of similar capacity, we can conclude that Gazprom orders equipment only for the first stage of the LNG plant, Kondratiev adds.