Gazprom Helium Service first delivers LNG to China via cross-border bridge

VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 2 (Interfax) - Gazprom Helium Service LLC has for the first time delivered a batch of LNG to China via the Blagoveshchensk (Russia) - Heihe (PRC) international highway bridge crossing, the company said in a statement.

Commercial LNG was produced at a low-tonnage natural gas liquefaction unit at Gazprom's helium hub in the Primorye Territory.

Gazprom Export was the seller under an export contract with the Chinese partner.

Gazprom Helium Service delivered the cargo in its own container on an LNG-powered mainline freight truck.

The LNG shipment was delivered to the Chinese province of Heilongjiang and will be used in the utilities sector and as a gas motor fuel.

Gazprom Helium Service has set up Russia's largest LNG-powered trucking company for the transportation of liquefied gases. The LNG infrastructure we have created in the Far East allows us to ensure comprehensive logistics for export deliveries of commercial products as part of Gazprom's projects," Lubov Brish, CEO of Gazprom Helium Service, was cited as saying in the statement.

Gazprom Helium Service is a Gazprom operator for the implementation of investment projects using cryogenic technologies.

In the Far Eastern Federal District, the company is implementing projects to build small-capacity LNG plants in the Nadezhdinskaya (Primorye Territory) and Amurskaya (Amur Region) priority development area (PDAs).

Gazprom Helium Service has set up a motor company that uses domestic LNG-powered mainline freight trucks to transport liquefied gases, provides LNG production for refueling equipment and owns its own refueling complexes along LNG truck routes in the Far Eastern Federal District. The company operates in the status of an international highway freight operator.

In 2022, Gazprom Helium Service took part in the opening of traffic on a cross-border bridge between Russia and China. LNG trucks from the company's fleet transported cargo containers to China.