Yamal LNG in Arctic Russia awarded renewed safety certificates after British Standards Institution audit
JSC Yamal LNG, the operating company of the liquefaction and export plant in northern Siberia, has been awarded renewed safety certificates after an audit by the British Standards Institution (BSI) while the facility also completed scheduled maintenance of two Trains.
The certificates were renewed for compliance of the Integrated Management System on Occupational Health, Safety, Environmental and Social Protection (IMS) with requirements of the international standards ISO 45001:2018 “occupational health and safety” and ISO 14001:2015 “environmental management”.
“Based on the objective evidence collected during the audit between June 10 and June 17, 2020, the British Standards Institution), an international certification authority, confirmed Yamal LNG’s IMS compliance with these international standards,” said a statement.
The certificates are now valid until 24 December 2020.
JSC Yamal LNG has been officially certified for international standards since June 2014.
In July 2018 the scope of certification was expanded and in June 2020 a certification audit was completed for the new version of ISO 45001:20.
Yamal recently completed the scheduled maintenance of the second and third liquefaction Trains with consecutive shutdowns during May to mid-June 2020.
In addition to regular maintenance works, the plant upgraded its the absorbers at the mercury removal units as well as some other equipment.
Yamal also said that due to the successful implementation of a Risk Based Inspection (RBI) maintenance system, the scheduled maintenance of the first liquefaction Train is able to be postponed for one year from August 2020 to 2021.
The RBI methodology allows reliable operations of the plant while reducing the total number of service hours.
When the supplementary Train starts up in several months overall output at Yamal will be 17.4 million tonnes per annum.
The small-scale fourth Train will produce 900,000 tonnes of LNG compared with the three larger Trains, which each have capacity of 5.5 MTPA.
A total of 29 nations have received Yamal LNG since the plant came on stream at the end of 2017.
The Yamal LNG shareholders are Russian natural gas company Novatek (50.1 percent), French major Total (20 percent), China National Petroleum Corp. (20 percent) and China’s Silk Road equity fund (9.9 percent).
Yamal LNG for Asia
Oct 2 (LNGJ) - Novatek said that 15 LNG cargos from the Yamal plant in northern Siberia were shipped eastwards to the Asia-Pacific market directly from Sabetta port via the Northern Sea Route during the third quarter 2019. “The eastward shipments represented about 25 percent of all LNG sent out from the Yamal plant during the quarter,” added Novatek.
A current fleet of 13 Arc7 ice-class tankers along with lower ice-class designated carriers transports cargoes from the Yamal facility to customers. Novatek said that another two Arc7 ice-class carriers are expected to be in operation by the end of 2019. “The increase of LNG delivered eastbound via the NSR confirms the commercial priority of the Asia-Pacific region as a strategic direction for future deliveries of Novatek LNG,” noted Lev Feodosyev, deputy chairman of the Novatek board.
Norwegian ship-to-ship transfer haven for Yamal LNG off Honningsvag is formally shut
Novatek, the Russian natural company and owner of the Yamal LNG export plant in northern Siberia, has formally ended its re-loading activities offshore the Norwegian port of Honningsvag that saw several million tonnes of LNG transferred from Ice-class carriers to conventional vessels and shipped to European terminals and beyond.
