LNG

Nov 22 (LNGJ) - LNG cargoes are heading for Belgium and the Netherlands over the next week. The vessel “Maran Gas Troy” with 159,800 of capacity is scheduled to berth with a US cargo on November 23 at the Belgian import terminal at Zeebrugge. The shipment was lifted on November 10 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, according to shipping data. A Russian delivery is then scheduled at Zeebrugge on November 26 onboard the carrier “Boris Davydov” with 172,000 cubic metres capacity. The cargo was loaded on November 20 at the Sabetta terminal on the Yamal Peninsula of northern Siberia.

   A third cargo is then due at Zeebrugge on November 29 from Angola on the vessel “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 metres of capacity. The volumes were lifted on November 13 from the Soyo export plant in the southwest African nation. Two cargoes are heading for the Netherlands from Texas. The “Adamastos” with 174,100 cubic metres of capacity is scheduled to arrive at November 25 at the Eemshaven facility in Groningen with a cargo from the Corpus Christi plant in Texas lifted on November 10. The carrier “WilPride” with 156,000 cubic metres capacity will discharge a Texas cargo on November 29 at the Gate terminal in Rotterdam. The volumes were loaded at Corpus Christi on November 13.

March 7 (LNGJ) - The 180,000 cubic metre capacity LNG carrier “Gaslog Westminster” is scheduled to arrive in the UK on March 13 with a shipment to discharge at the South Hook terminal at Milford Haven, the port authorities said. The cargo was lifted on February 27 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana owned by Cheniere Energy.

   In another European berthing, the laden and Cyprus-flagged 172,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Boris Davydov” arrived on March 7 at the French LNG terminal at the Channel port of Dunkirk, according to shipping data. The vessel lifted a cargo on February 28 from the Yamal plant located at Sabetta in northern Siberia in Russia.

Two liquefied natural gas LNG carriers, the “Boris Davydov” and the “Rudolf Samoilovich” after safely completing the final leg of their East-West voyages on the Northern Sea Route which has become ice-bound earlier in the 2021-2022 winter season.

“Two LNG carriers Boris Davydov (in the Laptev Sea) and Rudolf Samoilovich (in the East Siberian Sea) continue their voyages to the port of Sabetta without ice-breaker support,” said the NSR information office.

The 172,000 cubic metres capacity “Boris Davydov” was due to berth on November 25 at the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG export plant at Sabetta in northern Siberia.

The vessel had previously delivered an LNG shipment to the Chinese port of Jiangsu, according to the Russian NSR data.

The “Rudolf Samoilovich” was also heading for Sabetta and is scheduled to arrive on November 27. The ship had last visited the Russian Far East port of Nakhodka, though had delivered a shipment of LNG to the Tangshan terminal in the Caofeidian Industrial Zone of Hebei province.

Speed

“At the time of the report, their speed was 16-18 knots,” added the NSR body.

However, another vessel, the “Mechanic Pustoshnyy”, is drifting in the Laptev Sea, and a second ship, the “Mikhail Somov”, is adrift in the western part of the Vilkitskiy Strait.

The report concluded that in the western part of the NSR, the icebreaker “Yamal” finished the escorting of the ships “Yurii Arshenevskiy” and “Vitus Bering” at Cape Zhelaniya.

The Yamal plant is the focus of NSR energy shipping activity. It has three liquefaction Trains on stream, each with nameplate capacity of 5.5 million tonnes per annum, as well as a smaller fourth Train with 900,000 tonnes of output, taking overall production to 17.4 MTPA.

All the LNG vessels serving Yamal LNG are around 172,000 cubic metres capacity and have ice-class Arc7 notation.

The Arc7 design allows ice-class LNG carriers to break through ice that is up to 2 metres thick.

The Russian shipbuilding company, Zvezda Shipbuilding, is building a series of 15 next-generation Arc7 ice-class LNG vessels for Russian natural gas company Novatek’s Arctic LNG II project under construction on the Gydan Peninsula in the same region as the Yamal facility.

These newbuild Arc7 LNG vessels have increased ice-breaking and manoeuvring characteristics compared with the existing fleet used by the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG project.

The 15 carriers will be registered and flagged under the Russian Federation and operated by the Russian crew when delivered. 

UK natural gas prices hit a record level as system operator National Grid issued warnings on supply deficits and more coal-fired power was required in the absence of LNG shipments mostly drawn to North Asia by higher spot prices.