Etki Liman LNG Facility is a
floating production storage and offloading unit
A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons, and for the storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive h ...
(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 down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the vol ...
(LNG) in
İzmir Province
İzmir Province ( tr, İzmir ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in western Anatolia, situated along the Aegean coast. Its capital is the city of İzmir, which is in itself composed of the province's central 11 distri ...
, western Turkey. It is country's first floating LNG storage facility.
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
Aliağa
Aliağa is a town and a district of Izmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. The town is situated at about north of Izmir. Aliağa has a large port, mainly for oil and bulk cargo. Its economic activity is based on tourism, shipbreaking ...
district of İzmir Province on December 11, 2016.
The 2009-built Norway-flagged LNG carrier is long and has a beam of . She 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 December 23, 2016.
It is planned that the annual storage capacity of the Aliağa Terminal, operated by, will be 5.3 million tons. It will increase country's daily natural gas supply capacity from up to .
See also
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Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage,
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Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir,
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Marmara Ereğlisi LNG Storage Facility.
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Botaş Dörtyol LNG Storage Facility
References
Natural gas storage
Floating production storage and offloading vessels
Energy infrastructure in Turkey
Natural gas in Turkey
2016 establishments in Turkey
Energy infrastructure completed in 2016
Buildings and structures in İzmir Province
Aliağa District
21st-century architecture in Turkey
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