Estonia’s Balti Gaas is in the final stages of front-end engineering and design for the nation’s first LNG terminal.



Regulatory approval of the proposal at Paldiski could come by late summer, according to a source with knowledge of the project.



That would set the stage for an engineering, procurement and construction tender shortly thereafter.



The terminal is planned to have first-phase capacity of 1 billion cubic metres per annum under the FEED study being carried out by TGE Gas Engineering and Sweden’s Sweco for Balti Gaas, an affiliate of Estonian businessman Heiti Haal’s Alexela Group.



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