LNG terminal in Klaipėda

President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with the Presidents of Latvia and Estonia met with the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, informs press service of the President.

Lithuania expects to sign this year new contracts with US liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said on Monday.

The price of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported by Lithuania could decline, if the United States and the European Union (EU) sign a free trade agreement and supplies of American LNG is ensured, says Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis.

Two terminals could operate on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea controlled by the three Baltic states – in Lithuania's Klaipėda and in Estonia, which could build a small terminal, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis stated on Friday. In his words, the two terminals would supplement each...

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is to meet with the heads of government of Latvia, Estonia and Poland in Tallinn next Monday.

Latvian Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister Arvils Aseradens is to meet with the Lithuanian energy and economy ministers to discuss the countries' key energy projects and efforts to restrict imports from the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction in Belarus, and to visit the Klai...

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is leaving for Sweden on Monday on a brief visit to discuss energy and investment matters with the country's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.

Gas consumption in Lithuania is decreasing, but in order to maintain expensive infrastructure the state will have to encourage energy production from gas, regardless of price.

A day after the Tesla Motors lithium accumulator factory opened in Nevada, government and business representatives met for a discussion of the potential to build such a gigafactory in Lithuania as well.

BNS Lithuania news agency lists the most important 2017 projected events on the political and public arena in Lithuania.

Lithuania's talks with the European Commission on EU funding for the acquisition of the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas ( LNG) terminal's vessel will depend on whether Latvia and Estonia recognize it as a regional facility, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said.

Opening of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) competence centre in the seaport is a significant event for the Lithuanian LNG cluster members in the outgoing year 2016. A modern training infrastructure, which was marshalled in business incubator of Klaipėda University (KU), will serve the LNG terminal e...

The new Minister of Energy Žygimantas Vaičiūnas does not deny the possibility that in negotiations to disconnect from the so-called BRELL ring there could be tensions, but states that Russia understands the goals of Lithuania and other Baltic States perfectly well.

Mantas Bartuška, the new chief executive officer of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG), is confident that he will manage to turn the country's largest state-owned enterprise, which has recently come on the radar screen of law-enforcement, into a transparent company.

A liberalised gas market will soon be operating in all three Baltic states which, along with the LNG terminal in Klaipeda, will reduce prices, increase competition and improve security of supply, said Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis.

Lithuania wants to purchase the Klaipėda LNG terminal's floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) from Norway's Hoegh LNG before the expiry of the 10-year lease period in an effort to reduce the terminal's costs and will seek support from the European Union for this purpose, Energy Minister Ro...

Achema, Lithuanian fertilizer producer and the biggest gas consumer in the country, concluded a gas supply deal with Norway's Statoil on Tuesday. Statoil will deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the company in tankers via the LNG terminal in Klaipėda.

The National Commission for Energy Control and Prices has approved a methodology which will be used to set liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices for heat and electricity producers who are obliged to buy a set share of their gas from the LNG terminal in Klaipėda.