In a public meeting with the population of Aleksandrovsk, Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko underlined that the closed military town of Severomorsk, the Northern Fleet headquarter, will be supplied with LNG as heating source starting from 2012. Also several other coastal towns in the region will get the LNG supply, a press release from the regional administration reads.
-From next year on, Severomorsk will start to receive LNG, Dmitriyenko said. –If this experience will be successful, then also other coastal municipalities might get this fuel, he added.
The plans include the construction of a LNG plant in Karelia, as well as the establishment of the necessary gas infrastructure in Murmansk Oblast. The project is expected to cost 5,7 billion RUB, the regional administration informs.
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Murmansk Oblast is today one of the Russian regions most dependent on heavy oil as heating source. The introduction of LNG in the region is expected to help cut regional heavy oil consumption with 130.000 tons, Dmitriyenko said.
Murmansk Oblast now consumes an average of 1.2 million ton of heating oil. Also heating tariffs will drop with the introduction of LNG, the governor argues.
