Sept 28 (LNGJ) - As Asian and European natural gas prices and LNG values recover for the impending winter season, scores of October cargoes were en route to a variety of destinations. Among them, the 216,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Al Thumama” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on October 3 to the Dahej terminal in India from Ras Laffan in Qatar. The 217,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Shamal” will unload a Qatargas shipment on October 5 at the Map Ta Phut terminal in Thailand. Asian spot LNG cargo prices were last quoted for November at $4.975 per million British thermal units.
In European deliveries, the 160,000 cubic metres capacity “Arctic Aurora” will berth on October 7 at the Klaipeda facility on the Baltic Coast of Lithuania with a shipment from the US Freeport plant in Texas. The 155,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “British Sapphire” is scheduled to discharge a cargo on October 7 at the UK Isle of Grain terminal in Kent from the Trinidad plant at Point Fortin in the Caribbean. The UK National Balancing Point price was last at the equivalent of $4.10 per MMBtu.
