LNG

July 28 (LNGJ) - UK major BP and Austrian energy company OMV have signed a long-term sale and purchase agreement covering supply of up to 1 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per annum to the land-locked Austrians for 10 years from 2026.

   “Under the terms of the agreement, BP will provide OMV with LNG from its diverse and global portfolio of LNG, which will be received and regasified through the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where OMV holds regasification capacity, or other terminals in Europe,” BP said.

OMV Gas Marketing of Austria has signed an LNG supply agreement with Qatargas, the world’s largest production company, with shipments to be delivered over a period of five years to the Dutch import terminal at the Port of Rotterdam.

Oct 12 (LNGJ) - The Austrian river port of Vienna is one of the largest on the Danube River and will be the subject of growing LNG fuel use for barges, even as Austria remains dependent on Russian pipeline natural gas. Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller has visited Austria for talks with Chancellor Christian Kern in Vienna and it was noted that Austrian gas imports from Russia rose 11.5 percent in 2015 and from January through October 2016, Russian gas supplies to Austria totalled 4.18 billion cubic metres, 23.8 percent higher than in the same period of 2015.