LNG

Turkey, Europe’s second-largest liquefied natural gas importer, has deployed a new floating storage and regasification unit at the port of Aliaga, near Izmir.

Jan 3 (LNGJ) – Seven cargoes will be unloaded at European terminals in the next week. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity “Methane Rita Andrea” is delivering a shipment on January 3 to the Aliaga facility near the port of Izmir in Turkey from the Trinidad plant in the Caribbean, according to shipping data. The 75,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Cheik Bouamama” is unloading a cargo on January 4 at the Italian Panigaglia terminal near Genoa from the Skikda plant in Algeria. The 141,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Cross River” will deliver a cargo on January 4 to the Sines terminal in Portugal from the Nigerian plant on Bonny Island.
   The 147,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Princess” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on January 5 to the Dunkirk import terminal on the Channel coast of France from the Equinor plant at Hammerfest in Norway. The 216,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Hamla” is scheduled to deliver a Qatargas shipment on January 5 to the Swinoujscie terminal in Poland. The 150,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Seri Camar” will deliver a cargo on January 9 to the Aliaga facility in Turkey from the US Cove Point plant in Maryland. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Milaha Qatar” will unload a Qatargas shipment on January 11 at the Adriatic LNG import facility in Italy.

Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corp. (Botas) said one of the world's biggest ship-to-ship liquified natural gas transfers and regasfication operations was taking place in the Mediterranean port of Dortyol.

The operation involves the 210,100 cubic metres capacity Qatari Q-Flex carrier “Al Sadd” and the Japanese-owned “MOL FSRU Challenger”, the world’s largest floating storage and regasification unit with capacity of 263,000 cubic metres.

Turkey currently has four import facilities, two FSRUs and two onshore terminals.

The regional director of Botas utilities, Mehmet Tecimen, said that the two ships would take two days to conduct the transfer operation in which LNG will be regasified and injected into Turkey's natural gas pipeline system.

“This Botas chartered FSRU anchored in Dortyol is the largest FSRU in the world at 345 meters in length,” said Tecimen.

He noted that the vessel was commissioned at Dortyol port in February 2018 and this was its largest transfer to date.

The “MOL FSRU Challenger” has a regasification discharge capacity of 540 million cubic metres per day.

Botas signed a deal in September 2017 to receive 1.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG from Qatargas over a period of three years.

Turkey's first FSRU operations began in December 2016 in Aliaga port near Izmir to boost the nation’s LNG supplies.

Botas also operates Turkey’s oldest onshore import terminal, the Marmara Ereglisi facility, that has been on line since 1994.

There is a second onshore terminal owned by Turkish company EgeGaz and on line since 2006, also near Izmir, and a second FSRU, the “Neptune”, operating since December 2016 in the Aliaga industrial zone.

The Turkish government has said it was considering a fifth LNG import facility near Saros Bay on the Gallipoli peninsula.

TurkStream, the natural gas export pipeline from Russia to Turkey, has completed its first offshore phase across the Black Sea, while the second onshore phase will deliver gas to the Turkish market and southern and southeastern Europe in competition to LNG.

The American Bureau of Shipping, the US maritime classification society, said it was chosen by Petroleum Pipeline Corp. of Turkey to class a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) ordered in South Korea.

June 5 (LNGJ) - The 154,900 cubic metres capacity carrier “Trinity Arrow” will deliver a shipment on June 5 to the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium from the Ras Laffan plant in Qatar. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Fraiha” will deliver a Qatargas shipment on June 7 to the Aliaga facility near Izmir in Turkey. The 155,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “British Ruby” will deliver a cargo on June 9 to the Pakistani Port Qasim import facilities near Karachi from the Trinidad plant at Point Fortin in the Caribbean. The 147,200 cubic metres capacity carrier “Arctic Princess” will unload a shipment on June 10 at the Baltic port of Klaipeda in Lithuania from the Hammerfest plant in Norway, operated by Equinor. The 160,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Soyo” will unload a shipment on June 12 at the Indian Hazira terminal, operated by Shell India, from the Angola plant in southwest Africa. The 176,800 cubic metres vessel “LNG Lagos II” is scheduled to unload a shipment on June 25 at the Map Ta Phut terminal in Thailand from the Nigerian export plant on Bonny Island.

July 19 (LNGJ) - Two Norwegian cargoes are being shipped to terminals in Turkey and France. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Arctic Aurora”, operated by Dynagas, is scheduled to unload a shipment on July 20 at the Turkish import facility at Aliaga, near the port of Izmir, from the Statoil-operated Norwegian plant at Hammerfest. The 147,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Lady” will deliver a cargo on July 28 to the French Fos Cavaou terminal near Marseille from the Hammerfest export plant.

July 10 (LNGJ) - The 151,700 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Marrouna” is scheduled to unload a cargo on July 10 at the Adriatic LNG import facility offshore northeast Italy from Qatargas in Ras Laffan, according to shipping data. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex carrier “Al Ghariya” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on July 15 to the French Fos Cavaou import terminal near the Mediterranean port of Marseilles. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity “Arctic Aurora” will deliver a cargo on July 20 at Turkey’s Aliaga import facility near Izmir. The volumes were lifted from the Hammerfest plant in northern Norway, operated by Statoil.

May 16 (LNGJ) – The 75,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Cheikh El Mokrani” will deliver a shipment on May 19 to the Revithoussa import terminal in Greece from the Skikda liquefaction plant in Algeria, operated by Sonatrach, according to shipping data. The 138,088 cubic metres capacity carrier “Berge Arzew” will unload a shipment from Algeria on May 20 at the Turkish import terminal at Alianga, near Izmir.

Dec 16 (LNGJ) - The 75,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Cheikh Bouamama” will deliver a cargo on December 17 to the Revithoussa import terminal in Greece after earlier calling at the Spanish Huelva terminal from its previous port of Arzew in Algeria, according to shipping data. The 145,700 cubic metres capacity “LNG Benue” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on December 27 to the Turkish Aliaga import terminal, near Izmir, operated by EgeGaz. The shipment for Turkey was lifted at Nigeria’s Bonny Island plant on December 13. The 210,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex carrier “Al Nuaman” is scheduled to deliver a cargo from Qatar on December 22 to the Polish import terminal, located at Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast.