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Etki Liman LNG Facility is a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for
liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...
(LNG) in
Ä°zmir Province Ä°zmir Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in western Anatolia, situated along the Aegean coast. Its capital is the city of Ä°zmir, which is in itself composed of the province's central 11 districts out of 30 in to ...
, western Turkey. It is the country's first floating LNG storage facility.


History

The floating LNG storage facility is the vessel MT ''GDF Suez Neptune'', which sailed from France to Turkey and moored at a special pier of Terminal in
AliaÄŸa AliaÄŸa () is a municipality and district of Ä°zmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 379 km2, and its population is 104,828 (2022). The town is situated at about north of Ä°zmir. AliaÄŸa has a large port, mainly for oil and bulk cargo. Its e ...
district of Ä°zmir Province on 11 December 2016. The 2009-built Norway-flagged LNG carrier is long and has a beam of .


Capacity

The facility is capable of storing LNG. She can regasify LNG delivered from other ships. The floating storage facility went in service as Turkey's first one of its kind on 23 December 2016. It is planned that the annual storage capacity of the AliaÄŸa Terminal, operated by, will be 5.3 million tons. It will increase country's daily natural gas supply capacity from up to .


See also

* Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage, *
Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ra ...
, * Marmara EreÄŸlisi LNG Storage Facility. *
Botaş Dörtyol LNG Storage Facility Botaş Dörtyol LNG Storage Facility () is a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Hatay Province, southern Turkey. It is the country's second floating LNG storage facility after the Egegaz Aliağa LNG St ...


References

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