KIEV, May 17 – Engineers from U.S. company Excelerate Energy and Poland's ILF will arrive next week at Odessa region's Yuzhny port to study the placement of a floating liquefied natural gas terminal, Head of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects Management head Vladyslav Kaskiv said.

"According to an agreement signed in Houston on April 16, 2013, next week a technical group of specialists of U.S. company Excelerate Energy and Poland's ILF will arrive at the Yuzhny port, and on July 10, 2013 we'll be able to publish a technical report on the placement of the floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the water area of the port," he said.

The agency and Excelerate Energy on November 26, 2012, signed a framework cooperation agreement. Excelerate Energy L.P. has the world's largest fleet of floating LNG terminals - nine in all.