LNG terminal to start operating in a year's time
The LNG terminal in Świnoujście will start commercial operations in late May or early June 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechociński told the Polish Press Agency on Monday. Test operations will be launched in autumn this year.
“It will not be a situation when politicians come in the autumn, cut the ribbon and announce that the terminal is operating. The process will take several months,” Piechociński.
The terminal, built by state-controlled SPV Polskie LNG, is expected to have an operating capacity of 5 billion cubic meters of LNG annually, which may be expanded to 7.5 billion cubic meters.
The deputy PM added that, according to US experts, some 500-600 ships operating on the Baltic Sea may run on LNG fuel, after the EU’s “sulfur directive” comes into force. “This is an opportunity,” Piechociński said.
