LNG

May 19 (LNGJ) - Chinese LNG imports in April 2023 rose by 10 percent to 4.77 million tonnes compared with 4.34MT in April 2022, according to China’s General Administration of Customs.

   Analysts noted that the increase was from an already low base as the April 2022 deliveries took place during Covid-19 lockdowns in large cities like Shanghai when economic and industrial activity were curbed along with fuel demand. The Chinese LNG deliveries in April 2022 had also been the lowest total for more than two years.

Chinese liquefied natural gas imports rose by 38 percent in 2018 as winter shipments surged in the final two months as more natural gas supplies were brought to the northern cities such as Beijing to help reduce coal use and improve air quality.

Ten liquefied natural gas carriers from Australia, the Middle East and Africa are heading for Chinese import terminals and another dozen are waiting offshore for orders and destinations in the nation’s network of 20 regasification facilities as winter shipments to China gather pace.

Chinese LNG imports for the first six months of 2018 were led by nations such as Australia and Qatar as they increased by just over 50 percent to 23.90 million tonnes compared with 15.89MT in the same first six months of 2017.

Chinese LNG imports rose by almost 43 percent last month, led by Australian and Qatari shipments, as the natural gas needs of China continued to keep pace with its economic growth and amid a future expected surge in US volumes and of pipeline gas supplies from Russia.

Chinese liquefied natural gas imports rose 4.3 percent in April as the demand momentum remained high because of new supply contracts and import facilities to underpin increased economic development activity.

China imported a record amount of LNG in January, breaking the previous record set in December, as cold winter weather set in and natural gas replaced coal and coke in northern cities under a state campaign to reduce air pollution.

Chinese LNG imports in December rose by 34.8 percent to a monthly record of 5.03 million tonnes compared with the 3.73MT logged in December 2016, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.

China’s natural gas pipeline and LNG imports amounted to 7.89 million tonnes last month, about 20 percent above November’s previous record of 6.55MT as cold weather persisted and gas replaced some coal use as part of government measures to reduce air pollution in Beijing and surrounding cities.

Aug 31 (LNGJ) - The 160,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Cool Runner” is unloading a cargo on August 31 at the Brazilian import facility at Salvador in the northeast state of Bahia from the Point Fortin plant in Trinidad, according to shipping data. The 147,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Dapeng Moon” will deliver a shipment on September 3 to the Chinese Shenzhen Diefu import facility, owned by China National Offshore Oil Corp., from the Woodside Petroleum export plant at Dampier in Western Australia. The 174,000 cubic metres capacity “Gaslog Greece” will unload a cargo on September 4 at the Zhuhai import terminal in China’s southeast Guangdong province from the Queensland Curtis export plant in Australia, owned by Royal Dutch Shell. The 160,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Cubal” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on September 20 to Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi import facility from the Soya export plant of Angola LNG in southwest Africa.