KN Energies (KN, Klaipėdos Nafta until 2024) is a liquid energy product and LNG terminals operator based in

Klaipėda Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capi ...

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. The company was founded in 1994. The company operates the Klaipėda, Subačius and Marijampolė liquid energy products terminals, Klaipėda LNG terminal, Klaipėda small-scale LNG reloading station, other LNG terminals in Brazil and Germany. Since 2015 company have been actively engaged in the development of numerous LNG projects worldwide providing LNG business development services.

Klaipėda Liquid Energy Products Terminal

The Klaipėda Liquid Energy Products Terminal was commissioned on 27 November 1959 and its exported fuel oil from Soviet oil refineries in Yaroslavl, Perm, and Ryazan. As of today, the main customer of the terminal is the

ORLEN Lietuva Orlen Lietuva (former Mažeikių Nafta) is a subsidiary of the Polish PKN Orlen and owns the Mažeikiai oil refinery as well as the oil-processing plant in Lithuania, the only oil refinery in the Baltic States. Refinery The Mažeikiai refinery ...

oil refinery in

Mažeikiai Mažeikiai (; Samogitian: ''Mažeikē''; ; ) is a city in northwestern Lithuania, on the Venta River. It has a population of around 32,000, making it the eighth largest city in Lithuania and eighteenth largest city in the Baltic States. Th ...

. The terminal served also crude oil shipments to

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

LNG terminal

KN Energies is an operator of the Lithuanian LNG terminal and owner of its floating storage and regasification unit FSRU Independence. The consultant of the project was

Fluor Corporation Fluor Corporation is an American engineering and construction firm, headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a holding company that provides services through its subsidiaries in three main areas: oil and gas, industrial and infrastructure, government ...

. The terminal was launched on December 3, 2014. The terminal is using a

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 ...

floating storage and regasification unit with a capacity up to https://www.kn.lt/en/our-activities/lng-terminals/klaipeda-lng-terminal/559#sbi823 of

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

per year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:KN Energies Oil companies of Lithuania Oil terminals Transport companies established in 1994 1994 establishments in Lithuania Companies based in Klaipėda