Lithuania intends to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, the country's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said on Friday during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Russia is the main gas supplier to the Baltic countries. Russian energy giant Gazprom owns a 37% stake in Lithuania's gas transport system Lietuvos dujos.
Lithuania, which strives to cooperate with its neighbors to secure its energy system by diversifying energy supply sources, is planning to implement the project on its own or together with the other Baltic states, Kubilius said.
In February, during a meeting with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on the sidelines of the Baltic Sea Action Summit (BSAS) in Helsinki, Putin proposed increasing natural gas deliveries to Lithuania "on good terms."
He said Lithuania's natural gas demands might at least double following the shutdown of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in late 2009 as part of an agreement on the Baltic state's accession to the EU, which took place in May 2004.
NOVO-OGARYOVO, March 26 (RIA Novosti)
