LNG

Nov 2 (LNGJ) - French utility and energy company Engie confirmed the renewal of a charter on the floating storage and regasification unit “GDF Suez Cape Ann” at the port of Tianjin in northern China to help meet peak Chinese natural gas demand for the capital Beijing and other cities. Engie said the FSRU had arrived in Tianjin fully loaded with LNG and had started operations. The FSRU will remain in the Chinese port until around the end of the first quarter of 2018. It had previously provided similar services to CNOOC from November 2013 to January 2017. The FSRU will also transfer LNG into smaller onshore tanks used by CNOOC for LNG truck-loading. “We are especially pleased to continue this relationship with CNOOC, a long-standing partner of Engie in the field of LNG,” said Philip Olivier, Head of Global LNG at the French company.