Philippines starts to increase tender activities for LNG cargoes with Trafigura to supply First Gen FSRU
The Philippines is gradually increasing its activities in the liquefied natural gas trading and tender market with the Singapore-based unit of commodities firm Trafigura winning the latest Filipino cargo tender.
Filipino LNG advance
June 23 (LNGJ) - The “BW Batangas”, the second floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) chartered for a company in the Philippines for an LNG import terminal, has arrived at Batangas Bay, according to shipping data, for an LNG import project with commercial start-up before September.
The vessel with 162,500 cubic metres of capacity, the renamed “BW Paris”, has been chartered from BW LNG of Singapore by a venture led by Filipino power company First Gen Corp., which has also tendered for a commissioning cargo. The first Philippines floating LNG project started earlier in 2023 and is suppling another local power company SMC Global Power Holdings. This project involves the LNG floating storage unit “Ish” as part of a venture developed by Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company near Batangas Bay.
US cargo for UK Dec 5
Nov 28 (LNGJ) - The 162,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “BW Paris” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on December 5 to the UK Dragon LNG terminal in Milford Haven, owned by Royal Dutch Shell and Petronas of Malaysia, from the US Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, according to the port authority. The delivery was heading for the UK as the nation’s National Balancing Point benchmark natural gas price was at the equivalent of $8.30 per million British thermal units, while one of the main continental European prices, the Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF), was slightly higher at the equivalent of $8.35 per MMBtu.
