Bangladesh is scheduled to receive its first cargo of the month on November 21 after two earlier November shipments were cancelled at the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) at Moheshkhali Island on the Bay of Bengal because of a technical fault.
Bangladesh, the world’s newest liquefied natural gas importer with a floating regasification and storage unit provided by Excelerate Energy of the US at Moheshkhali Island on the Bay of Bengal, has signed an LNG supply agreement with the Sultanate of Oman.
Nov 22 (LNGJ) - Finland’s Cargotec Corp., a maker of cargo-handling machinery for ships and ports, has received an equipment order through its MacGregor subsidiary from an LNG import terminal planned for the Moheskhali Island area of Bangladesh. MacGregor has signed an order for the fabrication, engineering and project management of a complete subsea mooring and riser system from Summit LNG Terminal Co. The MacGregor system will serve Summit's floating storage and regasification unit. The Bangladesh LNG terminal end-user is Summit Power, an independent electricity producer, and the facility is one of several under development in the Asian nation.
Qatar has signed a 15-year liquefied natural gas supply agreement with Bangladesh to supply the Asian nation with 2.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG at its planned floating storage and regasification unit in the Bay of Bengal.
Bangladesh has signed its first initial LNG supply agreement with Qatar after recent progress on establishing the Asian nation’s first import facility at an island in the Bay of Bengal.
Bangladesh is making progress to become a liquefied natural gas importer by early 2018 after key tests were successfully carried out proving the viability of the plan to provide a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and related infrastructure to operate at Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal.
Petronet LNG, the Indian import terminal owner and cargo importer, said it is on the short list for setting up an import facility in Bangladesh to be located on Moheshkhali Island offshore the port of Cox's Bazar in the Bay of Bengal and has other LNG plans for the country.