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Etki Liman LNG Facility

Etki Liman LNG Facility is a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in İzmir Province, western Turkey. It is the country's first floating LNG storage facility.

History

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 district of İzmir Province on 11 December 2016. The 2009-built Norway-flagged LNG carrier is long and has a beam of .

Capacity

The facility 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 23 December 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 .

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