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1. Sakhalin II: The First LNG Storage Tanks in Russia INTHIS ISSUE
The authors describe how the planning, design and construction of the LNG
storage tanks in the Sakhalin II project have taken into account the Russian
approval process, the harsh weather conditions and other site characteristics.
O
n the remote island of
Sakhalin, construction of the
first LNG facility to be built in
Russia is underway (see Figure 1).
Sakhalin II, which has become known
as the project of many firsts, is paving
the way for additional Russian LNG
projects that will follow.
Contrary to the typical LNG story -
where natural gas is stranded due to
the absence of a pipeline network to
transport it to market - Russia has an
extensive pipeline grid that extends to
every part of the country and into
Europe. However, with more than
47.6 trillion m3(st), Russia has the
largest natural gas reserves in the
world and is also the largest exporter
of natural gas. Adding LNG export
facilities to pipeline transportation
provides Russia with more flexibility
in its export options and opens up
markets throughout Asia Pacific, Mex-
ico, and the United States.
Because of the remote location, the
harsh climate, the level of seismic
activity and the absence of national
codes for LNG structures, the con-
struction of LNG facilities on Sakhalin
presents a number of challenges. A
look at one of these projects - the con-
struction of two LNG storage tanks
with a capacity of 100,000 m3 each -
provides an opportunity to examine
how some of these challenges are
being met.
The Sakhalin Tanks
Over the past decade, LNG storage
tanks have been increasing in size to
capture economies of scale. Today's
LNG storage tank typically has 100,000
m3 or more of capacity and is designed
to facilitate a process that works with
the laws of physics to keep the temper-
ature inside the tank from warming.
The process, called autorefrigeration,
keeps the temperature of LNG constant
through LNG vapor release.
Because LNG storage tanks have
never before been built in Russia, codes
that regulate the design and construc-
tion of these facilities did not exist. For
this project to proceed smoothly, it was
important to combine experience in the
design and construction of LNG proj-
ects with experience in Russian con-
struction, climate and, especially, busi-
ness practices. Sakhalin Energy Invest-
ment Company Ltd., the owner of the
Sakhalin II project, took the lead in
developing the overall Project Specific
Technical Specification for the LNG
tanks, a document that provided the
specifics for what kind of tanks would
be built, what materials would be used,
etc. They then took this document to
the Russian Federal Government to
obtain the necessary approvals. Once
the Federal Government approved the
document, it was the responsibility of
the contractor awarded the job to
develop the detailed design and techni-
cal specifications that provided the in-
depth processes and procedures for
how the tanks would be constructed. It
was important in developing this
detailed documentation to ensure that
it conformed to the owner's require-
ments, the Project Specific Technical
Specification approved by the Federal
Authorities, and all applicable Russian
National Standards. It was also neces-
sary to obtain Federal Government
approval of this detailed technical doc-
umentation, since it was the first devel-
oped for LNG tanks in Russia.
Developing the technical documen-
tation for this work can be time inten-
sive and the approval process can be
long if not handled appropriately.
CB&I, an engineering, procurement
and construction (EPC) company that
had previously conducted EPC work
in Russia, also has extensive experi-
ence working with LNG facilities. The
company, along with the project's gen-
eral contractor - the consortium of
Chiyoda, Toyo Engineering, and NIPI-
gaspererabotka - was responsible for
the design and construction of the
LNG tanks.
The first step was to develop techni-
cal documentation for LNG tanks that
met all the criteria requested by the
owner as well as Russian requirements.
Next, Russian Design Institutes were
asked to review it for specific design
criteria to ensure that it complied with
Russian regulations and standards. It
incorporated worldwide knowledge
and best practices for LNG tanks while
also complying with all the standards
for steel and concrete structures that
have evolved within the Russian con-
struction industry.
Realizing that the approval process
was on the critical path for scheduling
this project, the activity required to
complete this process was planned and
coordinated as part of the overall proj-
ect schedule. The project received
approval from the Federal Government
to proceed with the tank construction
in February 2004, well within the time-
frame that had been planned for this
phase of the project. Once this federal
approval was given, it was then neces-
sary to prepare for the construction
phase that would follow, including the
need to obtain the permits required to
proceed with the project, as well as
visas and work permits for personnel
needed on site when specific skills sets
were not available locally.
Building Preparation
Because of the remote location, the lack
of infrastructure, and the cold winters,
the planning of this project was critical
to its success. Sakhalin Island is locat-
ed in the far eastern part of Russia,
where the land mass ends at the Pacific
LNG journalJanuary/February 2005
Martin Brockman and Brian Rooney, CB&I, USA
LNG Vessel Port Hazards 49
Robin Pitblado, Dennis Butts,
Det Norske Veritas (USA) Inc. , USA
The Importance of Shipping
in LNG 18
Christian Andersen and Rebekka Glasser,
Bergesen d.y. ASA, Norway
Tug Behaviour in Waves during
Offshore LNG operations 36
Bas Buchner, Maritime Research Institute
Netherlands (MARIN), The Netherlands
LNG satellite stations open
opportunities for the natural gas
market 28
Vaclav Chrz, Ferox a.s., Czech Republic; and
Scott Nason, Chart Ind., Inc., USA
Optimising the LNG Liquefaction
Process 40
Chris Spilsbury, Air Products plc (UK),
Sandy McLauchlin and Bill Kennington,
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (USA)
Sakhalin II: The First LNG Storage
Tanks in Russia 1
Martin Brockman and Brian Rooney, CB&I, USA
Latest news 6
Shipping Through the Ice 12
Herbie Battye , Sakhalin Energy Investment
Company Ltd., Russia
Innovative Gas Processing with
Various LNG Sources 23
Joseph Cho, Felix de la Vega, Heinz Kotzot, and
Charles Durr, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), USA
Figure 1: The initiation of steel construction on the first LNG tank in Sakhalin
Gas Turbines in the LNG World 45
Elena Lencioni and Alessio Mariani,
GE Energy- Nuovo Pignone, Italy
Start-up of Linde's First MCHE in
LNG Baseload Plant 59
Christiane Kerber, Manfred Steinbauer, and
Rudolf Stockmann, Linde LE, Germany
Brunei LNG's MCHE
Replacement Project 57
Chong Chen Fatt and Adimasyaton Omarali,
Brunei LNG, Brunei Darussalam
Diary of Events 6
Progress on the Darwin LNG
Export Project 64
Doug Yates, and David Lundeen,
Darwin LNG Project, Australia
Subsea Transportation of
Cryogenic Fluids 61
Raul Gaurisse, PlusPetrol (Peru), Vicki Niesen,
ITP, Inc (USA), Michael Offredi, ITP SA (France),
and M B (Skip) Mick, Paragon Engineering
Services (USA)
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2. STORAGE
Ocean (see Figure 2). In the southern portion
of the Sea of Okhotsk, approximately 40 km
north of Japan, Sakhalin Island is roughly 950
km long and peaks at 160 km wide. The cli-
mate on the island is harsh and the area is seis-
mically active.
Planning the project included a determina-
tion of how to successfully work around
inevitable weather delays so that the project
would be able to proceed on schedule through-
out the year. The nearest town, the Port of Kor-
sakov, is 17 km from the site, with only a gravel
road connecting the site to the port. The settle-
ment of Prigorodnoye is located a short distance
beyond Korsakov. With no infrastructure near-
by, all of the equipment had to be obtained from
other places and shipped to the site. And,
because of the long lead time to get materials
and equipment flown in and cleared through
customs, contingencies had to be developed for
potential malfunctions and urgently needed
replacement parts. A camp had to be built to
provide accommodation for the crew and
arrangements had to be made for obtaining and
preparing daily meals. Finally, the crew had to
be hired, transported to the site and settled
before the construction could commence.
Planning the project also included analyz-
ing the soil at the site. When the soil was test-
ed, it was discovered that competent soil exist-
ed beneath the ground surface. However, for
the soil to provide the necessary support to
hold the two tanks and their contents, it was
necessary to excavate up to 3 m of soil over the
entire site for both of the LNG tanks - each of
which is 70 m in diameter - and then fill in the
excavated sites with a lean concrete.
The first order of business for the construc-
tion activity was to address various infrastruc-
ture needs. Two 65 m3/hour concrete batch-
ing plants were erected to provide all of the
concrete needed for the tanks. While one plant
would have been sufficient during most of the
project, at times the volume needed would
exceed the capacity of a single plant. Not only
was it necessary to provide enough concrete
for the base slabs, the tank walls and the roofs,
but concrete was also needed to create the filler
material to reinforce the soil.
Additionally, building a second batch plant
provided a back-up facility, since concrete
could not be purchased in neighboring areas
and transported to the site in any way that was
cost-effective for the project. This was just one
of the many contingencies that was developed
to plan in advance for outages that might
occur. The concrete batching plants have been
winterized but still will not be able to be used
during the harshest part of the winter.
The civil work, including site preparation,
excavation, replacement of soil by lean concrete
filler material, and slab construction, was sub-
contracted to a local Russian company. This
crew had extensive experience not only working
within the Russian construction industry, but
also working in the weather conditions experi-
enced on Sakhalin. The partnership between
CB&I employees with LNG experience and the
Russian crew with local experience was deemed
to be a vital component in developing the syner-
gies necessary to make this project successful.
Tank Design
LNG tanks are generally built as either single
containment tanks or full containment tanks.
Both types are required to provide a secondary
containment area that will hold all of the LNG
in the event of a leak or failure in the primary
containment system. The difference between a
single and a full containment tank is that, for a
single containment tank, the secondary con-
tainment is provided by an earthen dike and
therefore requires more available land.
The Sakhalin tanks are full containment
LNG tanks, which are built with an inner and
an outer tank that are both capable of inde-
pendently containing the stored LNG, separat-
ed by a meter or two of space (see Figure 3). In
addition to providing a secondary liquid con-
tainment, the outer tank also provides con-
trolled release of the vapor, making it the pri-
mary vapor containment system. This is
important for the autorefrigeration process to
work effectively. Relief valves are provided to
release gas in the event that pressure builds up
inside the tank. The inner tanks are construct-
ed from 9% nickel steel, which is a highly
resilient material for storing cryogenic fluids.
The outer tank is a concrete structure, consist-
ing of a reinforced concrete floor slab (see Fig-
ure 4), a pre-stressed concrete wall, and a rein-
forced concrete roof. The LNG storage design
temperature is -165°C.
On most LNG tank projects, the concrete
work is on the critical path. However, since
Sakhalin's climate is so harsh, an innovative
technique was developed to actually take the
concrete work off the critical path and avoid
the difficulties associated with curing concrete
in wet or extremely cold conditions. In this
way, the project will be able to stay on sched-
ule because the number of weather delays
associated with large amounts of concrete
work will be significantly reduced. Also as a
result of this plan, the construction work will
be able to move forward throughout the year,
while the concrete work can be performed in
the warmer months, as conditions permit.
An important design consideration for the
Sakhalin tanks is the level of seismic activity in
the area. Because of the high level of seismic
activity, which once resulted in an earthquake
that reached 7.5 on the Richter scale, the
Sakhalin storage tanks were required to be
designed to withstand a horizontal peak
ground acceleration SSE (Safe Shutdown
Earthquake) of 0.47g. The inner tank is config-
ured to provide a nominal operating height
margin of 1.27 m at the top of the inner tank to
avoid spillage of LNG into the annular space in
the event of an earthquake. The carbon steel
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Figure 4: Pouring the slab for an LNG tank on SakhalinFigure 3: Schematic of a Full Containment LNG Tank
Figure 2: Map of Sakhalin
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liner plates will be in direct contact with
the concrete slab, wall and roof, providing
a gas tight barrier. The bottom slab and
lower portion of the wall will be protected
from direct exposure to product tempera-
ture, in case of a spill, by the secondary
bottom and thermal corner protection
(TCP) system (see Figure 5).
Insulation also plays a prominent role
in the storage of LNG. On the Sakhalin
project, the tanks will be insulated with
rigid foamglas® beneath the inner tank, a
layer of fiberglass insulation placed on a
deck suspended over the inner open top
steel tank, and expanded perlite together
with resilient fiberglass blanket in the
annular space between inner and outer
tank walls. Even though the tanks are
being built below the frost line due to the
excavation, it was also necessary to
include in the design a means to prevent
the LNG in the tanks from freezing the
earth beneath, expanding the soil mixture
and compromising the tank foundations.
To prevent this, foundation heaters are
placed below the tanks to provide a con-
stant source of heat to the earth beneath.
Construction Activity
The Sakhalin II LNG tanks are currently
under construction (see Figure 1). In Rus-
sia, the owner and the state and local gov-
ernments provide oversight for construc-
tion activities. Russian Design Institutes
have been engaged to ensure compliance
with all local and state regulations through-
out the construction of the tanks. Construc-
tion will take place year round and is sched-
uled to continue for more than three years.
Work on the tanks alternates from one
tank to the other, so that specific skills sets
on the part of various crew members can
be used most effectively. This technique
allows the resources to be used where they
are most needed, optimizing production
time, and it also reduces equipment needs
and allows for efficient use of supervisory
personnel. Each tank has two stationary
tower cranes in place, and five additional
cranes are available to support the con-
struction activities.
One of the most significant challenges
faced in the construction effort is dealing
with the harsh winter conditions on
Sakhalin. Construction crews face winters
on the southern portion of Sakhalin that
have an average low temperature in Janu-
ary of -14°C. Although precipitation is
generally moderate, 3 m of snow is not
uncommon and winds are persistent. The
wind chill effect combined with the cold
temperatures contributes to the challeng-
ing construction environment. A steady
wind of 15 miles per hour combined with
a temperature of -15 °C produces a wind
chill factor of -39 °C, a temperature that
can freeze exposed skin in 10 minutes. To
deal with these challenges, the team for
this project is led by individuals from Rus-
sia, Canada, the United States, and the
United Kingdom who have experience
working in similar conditions on projects
located in Canada, the upper Midwest of
the United States, Norway, Poland, Rus-
sia, and Kazakhstan.
Safety will be at the forefront of the
construction effort, as always. In this case,
in addition to the usual construction safe-
ty safeguards and training, the crew will
be trained to work safely in extremely cold
weather. Most of the crew has experience
working in Russia or in other regions in
the world with a similar climate, which
will greatly aid this effort. Work areas will
be enclosed as much as possible, and tar-
paulins/galvanized sheeting will be used
to serve as a barrier, providing protection
from the wind. Procedures to prevent ice
build up on tanks and equipment along
with keeping walking surfaces free of ice
will also be implemented. As the steel lin-
er is erected, it will provide a weather bar-
ricade to protect the crew from the ele-
ments. Winter weather gear specifically
designed for this type of activity has been
purchased. With the appropriate clothing,
training, and supervision - as well as a
construction technique that takes the con-
crete work off the critical path - the climate
conditions on Sakhalin should not unduly
hinder the construction progress, allowing
construction activities to continue safely
throughout the winter.
Paving the Way
The key to a successful engineering, pro-
curement and construction project in Rus-
sia is the ability for a contrac-
tor to be global and local at
the same time. Global expe-
rience with projects such as
LNG facilities that have not
been previously built in Rus-
sia provides valuable knowl-
edge and expertise not avail-
able in the country. Local
resources, such as construc-
tion subcontractors and
Russian Design Institutes,
provide essential expertise
and skill sets needed for
doing business in Russia.
Together, these elements cre-
ate the framework for devel-
oping designs that combine
the best practices of the LNG
industry worldwide with the
best practices of the Russian
construction industry.
The slab construction for
the LNG tanks started in May
2004, and the project is on
schedule to complete the tank
construction by the spring of
2007. LNG cargo is sched-
uled to be loaded in Novem-
ber 2007, as Russia for the
first time produces LNG and
begins to export some of its
vast natural gas resources to
the Asia Pacific, North Amer-
ica, and Mexico.
Martin Brockman is a Project Director with CB&I and has more than 18
years of project management experience in various countries worldwide,
including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Russia. He is current-
ly Project Director of CB&I's LNG project on Sakhalin Island. He received a
Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and completed a mini-MBA
program at Purdue University. He is a licensed professional engineer.
Brian Rooney is the CB&I Project Engineering Manager for the Sakhalin
Project and has more than 20 years experience designing low temperature and
cryogenic storage tanks, including full containment cryogenic tanks, spheres,
and insulation systems. In his current position, he is responsible for work asso-
ciated with all aspects of the engineering effort on the project. He received a
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University.
Figure 5: Inner Tank and Insulation Geometry
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