LNG

Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French technology firm and designer of liquefied natural gas storage tanks, is increasing its China business as it secured another contract for an onshore storage system in northeast Hebei province.

Yantai Port Group, the Chinese cargo transportation, warehousing and harbour management company in the northeast province of Shandong just south of Beijing, plans to take part in up to three liquefied natural gas storage and terminal projects to be completed between 2022 and 2025.

Hoegh LNG Holdings, the Norwegian fleet operator, said its floating storage and regasification unit, the 170,000 cubic metres capacity “Hoegh Esperanza” had arrived at Tianjin port in northeast China and has started commissioning for FSRU import operations to serve the capital Beijing.

NextDecade Corp, the developer of the Rio Grande export plant in Texas and with plans for other pipeline and liquefaction facilities, has opened offices in Singapore and Beijing to serve future customers in Asia.

Nov 2 (LNGJ) - French utility and energy company Engie confirmed the renewal of a charter on the floating storage and regasification unit “GDF Suez Cape Ann” at the port of Tianjin in northern China to help meet peak Chinese natural gas demand for the capital Beijing and other cities. Engie said the FSRU had arrived in Tianjin fully loaded with LNG and had started operations. The FSRU will remain in the Chinese port until around the end of the first quarter of 2018. It had previously provided similar services to CNOOC from November 2013 to January 2017. The FSRU will also transfer LNG into smaller onshore tanks used by CNOOC for LNG truck-loading. “We are especially pleased to continue this relationship with CNOOC, a long-standing partner of Engie in the field of LNG,” said Philip Olivier, Head of Global LNG at the French company.