KN Energies explained

Type:State controlled
Location City:Klaipėda
Location Country:Lithuania
Key People:Darius Šilenskis (CEO)[1]
Industry:Oil and gas industry
Services:Oil and LNG terminals operator
Owner:Ministry of Energy (Lithuania) (72.5%), Achema (10.4%) [2]

KN Energies (KN) is an oil and LNG terminals operator based in Klaipėda, Lithuania. The company was founded in 1994. The company operates the Klaipėda Oil Terminal, Subačius oil terminal, Klaipėda LNG terminal, Açu LNG terminal (Brazil) and Klaipėda small-scale LNG reloading station.[3]

Klaipėda Oil Terminal

The Klaipėda Oil 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 oil refinery in Mažeikiai.[4] The terminal serves also crude oil shipments to Belarus.[5]

LNG terminal

See main article: Klaipėda LNG FSRU. KN Energies is an operator of the Lithuanian LNG terminal project. The consultant of the project was Fluor Corporation.[6] The terminal was launched on December 3, 2014.[7] The terminal is using a liquefied natural gas floating storage and regasification unit with a capacity up to 2e9m3 of natural gas per year.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regarding the election of CEO of AB Klaipedos Nafta.
  2. Web site: KN - Knowledge driven.
  3. Web site: KN - Knowledge driven.
  4. News: Klaipėda Oil terminal cuts scale of operations . The Baltic Times . 2006-10-18 . 2011-09-21.
  5. News: Klaipėda terminal could get trial shipment of oil for Belarus in autumn . . 2010-04-08 . 2011-09-21 . https://archive.today/20130128000720/http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/08/04/klaipeda-terminal-could-get-trial-shipment-of-oil-for-belarus-in-autumn/ . 2013-01-28 . dead .
  6. News: Klaipedos Nafta Hires Flour as Advisor to Build LNG Terminal . Milda . Seputyte . . 2011-07-01 . 2011-09-21.
  7. http://www.ve.lt/naujienos/ekonomika/sgd/pradeda-veikti-sgd-terminalas/ Pradeda veikti SGD terminalas. Vakarų ekspresas, 2014-12-03
  8. News: Lithuania to call tender on LNG FSRU in October . Nerijus . Adomaitis . . CNBC . 2011-08-30 . 2011-09-21.