LNG

Indian LNG imports rose for a fifth straight month as volumes increased from new long-term supply contracts in Australia and the US while the costs of the cargoes also surged for the Asian nation.

Nov 1 (LNGJ) - The 155,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Solaris” arrived on November 1 at the Dabhol terminal in India with a cargo from the Equatorial Guinea onshore LNG export plant on Bioko Island, operated by Marathon Oil of the US, according to shipping data. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Deebel” will unload a shipment on November 2 at the Egyptian port of Ain Sokhna in the Gulf of Suez from Qatargas in Ras Laffan. The 216,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Gattara” will arrive on November 7 in Singapore with a cargo from Ras Laffan. The 138,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Methane Kari Elin”, owned by Shell, has just lifted a cargo from the Equatorial Guinea plant in West Africa and is awaiting orders. The 140,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Methane Rita Andrea”, operated by GasLog for Shell, has arrived at the Peru LNG loading terminal at Pampa Melchorita to lift a cargo.

March 3 (LNGJ) - The 155,000 cubic metres capacity “Gaslog Saratoga” has just delivered a shipment for Gas Authority of India to the Dabhol terminal near Mumbai from the Bonny Island export plant in Nigeria, according to shipping data. The 170,000 cubic metres capacity “Methane Julia Louise” is unloading a cargo at the Dahej import facility, operated by Petronet north of Mumbai, from the Queensland Curtis plant in the Australian port of Gladstone. The 155,900 cubic metres capacity vessel “Maran Gas Mystras” has unloaded a cargo from Qatar at a floating import facility at the Egyptian port of Ain Sokhna in the Gulf of Suez. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Al Saad” is unloading a cargo from Qatar at the Pakistani Port Qasim floating import facility, located east of Karachi. The 155,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Solaris” has unloaded a shipment from Gladstone in Australia at the Ningbo import terminal in the eastern Chinese province of Zheijang, operated by China National Offshore Oil Corp.

India’s liquefied natural gas imports for the month of July dropped 3.8 percent, though the nation remained on course for record annual shipments to the four regasification terminals of around 18 million tonnes.

India’s liquefied natural gas imports surged more than 43 percent in May, maintaining the level of the previous month’s jump in supplies delivered to the country’s four import terminals.

India’s monthly liquefied natural gas imports have surged more than 45 percent, boosted by its first LNG shipment from the United States, and putting the nation on target to break the 20 million tonnes import level for the year.