After more than three years of construction and a three-week towing operation supported by a dozen ships, the world’s largest floating platform ever constructed arrived at the Arctic LNG 2 facility in Russia. Here it will be integrated with land-based infrastructure and production is set to start before the end of the year.
Russian gas company Novatek achieved a major milestone this week with the arrival of the first production line of its flagship Arctic LNG 2 project at the Gydan peninsula in the Russian Arctic. […]
With a length of 332 m, a width of 154 m, and a weight of 640,000 tons the platform is the largest floating structure in the world.
Novatek says a further two platforms will follow in 2024 and 2026 bringing Arctic LNG 2’s capacity to 19.8m tons of LNG per annum. Arctic LNG 2 is located around 70 km across the Gulf of Ob from Novatek’s original LNG project in the Arctic, Yamal LNG. Läs artikel