Finland’s first LNG import terminal opens at the Port of Pori

Finland’s first LNG import terminal was opened in Pori on Monday September 12, 2016. Deliveries of LNG to customers also begin on the same day. The terminal enables LNG deliveries also to industrial, maritime and heavy-duty road transport customers outside the gas pipeline network and diversifies the Finnish energy market.

Access to LNG in Finland will improve considerably following the opening of the terminal. This is an important competitiveness factor for the M20 Industrial Park at the Port of Pori as well as current industrial operators in the area, of which the energy company Huntsman Pigments and Additives Oy, KemiraOyj, Norilsk Nickel HarjavaltaOy and PorinProsessivoima have already switched to LNG.

“The opening of the Pori LNG terminal will develop and diversify the Finnish energy market. The option of LNG deliveries outside the gas pipeline network lowers the threshold for the utilization of gas throughout the country. It’s great that the terminal is now opened on schedule and without any accidents resulting in absence from work,” said Johanna Lamminen, Chair of the Skangas Board of Directors and CEO of Gasum.

The project’s total investment exceeds over €80 million. In 2014 energy support at €23 million was granted for the terminal project by the Finnish Ministry for Employment and the Economy. When operational, the terminal provides direct employment to 10 and significant indirect employment to around 50 persons. The terminal project has provided 320 full-time equivalents of employment and at best the total number of people working on the construction site at the same time has been 230.

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