SC “Klaipedos Nafta” (hereinafter, the Company) hereby informs that on 24th of April 2014 the Company has announced the annual liquefied natural gas (hereinafter, LNG) terminal capacities allocation procedure and an invitation for the potential users of the LNG Terminal to submit their requests for allocation of LNG terminal capacities for the upcoming Gas Year, lasting from the 1st of October, 2015 to the 1st of October, 2016. Text of the invitation (Annex No. 1) is provided along with this notification on material event and is also published on the website: www.sgd.lt.
The Company performs the allocation of capacities according to the publicly announced Regulations for Use of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal (hereinafter, the Regulations), which were verified and approved by the National Commission for Energy Control and Prices (hereinafter, the NCECP) and the Board of the Company. The Company notified about the pre-approval by NCECP of the Regulations currently in force as well as about the approval of the main provisions of these Regulations by the Board of the Company by publishing a notification of material event on the 30th of September, 2014. It should be noted, that at the moment a new edition of the Regulations has been prepared and announced for public consultation by NCECP and which can be found at the database of legal acts of Seimas.
During the allocation procedure of the LNG terminal capacities the foundation LNG regasification capacities, seasonal LNG regasification capacities and seasonal LNG reloading capacities shall be allocated which after coming into force of the new edition of the Regulations shall be accordingly treated as LNG regasification capacities and LNG reloading capacities. The total volume of the LNG terminal capacity being allocated is 1.45 bcm per annum, which is equivalent to 2.5 mln m3 of LNG per annum at the following reference conditions: temperature (combustion/measurement)- 25/0 oC, pressure – 1.01325 bar. After the launch of the new gas transmission pipeline connection Klaipeda- Kursenai, regasification restrictions for the LNG terminal will be abolished. The Company at its website shall constantly announce and update the information regarding free capacities of the LNG terminal, which shall be available for acquisition during the Gas Year as well.
The Company shall accept the requests of potential LNG terminal users until 25th of May, 2015, 4 p.m., while the agreements with the users shall be signed until 7th of June, 2015.
Annex No. 1 – Invitation to provide LNG terminal capacity allocation requests.
Marius Pulkauninkas, Director of the Finance and Administration Department, 8 46 391 763
