LNG carrier in collision with bulk carrier off Gibraltar with damaged cargo ship now beached at Catalan Bay
An LNG carrier, the 162,000 cubic metres “Adam LNG”, was hit by a bulk carrier while at anchor off Gibraltar’s Europa Point, and there were no injuries to either crew, though the cargo ship suffered the most damage and had to be beached off Catalan Bay, a main tourist area on the Rock.
US LNG exports rise
April 20 (LNGJ) - US LNG exports increased in the week from the Sabine Pass liquefaction plant in Louisiana, owned by Cheniere Energy, with six vessels carrying a combined 21.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas departing the facility through April 18 and a seventh vessel with 3.8 Bcf lifting a cargo, according to the weekly report of the US Energy Information Administration. The second US export plant now on stream, Dominion Energy’s Cove Point plant in Maryland, entered commercial service last week and exported its first contractual cargo on the carrier “Adam LNG” with carrying capacity 3.5 Bcf. The EIA said the vessel left the Chesapeake Bay facility on April 16. It was scheduled to be in the East Mediterranean at the start of May after an Atlantic crossing, according to shipping data.
