LNG

Zeebrugge LNG Terminal, owned by Belgian company Fluxys, has begun the first loading operations for the small-scale carrier “Coral EnergICE”, an Ice-Class vessel designed to make year-round deliveries of break-bulk cargoes to Scandinavian ports.

Feb 8 (LNGJ) - The 147,200 cubic metres capacity carrier “Arctic Princess” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on February 9 to the Dutch Gate terminal in Rotterdam from the Hammerfest plant in Norway, operated by Statoil. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Asia Endeavour”, owned by Chevron Corp., is scheduled to lift a cargo on February 12 from the Ashburton port of Wheatstone LNG in Western Australia for delivery to Asia. The 155,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “British Diamond”, owned by BP Shipping, will unload a cargo on February 26 at the Japanese Futtsu terminal from the Atlantic LNG plant in Trinidad. The 155,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “British Merchant” is scheduled to deliver a cargo from Trinidad on March 11 to Thailand’s Map Ta Phut terminal.

Sept 19 (LNG) - The 173,400 cubic metres capacity vessel “Ribera Ddel Duero Knutsen” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on October 5 to the Dutch Gate import terminal in Rotterdam from the US Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, operated by Cheniere Energy. The carrier lifted the cargo on September 14, according to shipping data. The 159,924 cubic metres capacity carrier “Energy Atlantic” is scheduled to arrive at the US Sabine Pass plant on October 7 to lift a cargo after previously delivering a shipment to Argentina.

July 12 (LNGJ) - The Dutch Gate LNG import terminal, a joint venture facility owned by the utility Gasunie and global storage giant Royal Vopak, has started commercial operations at two new truck-loading bays. “By adding two new truck-loading bays to the existing bay, the Gate terminal is prepared to efficiently cater for future growth in the demand for LNG distribution via road or containers. This will support the efforts of Gate terminal customers to deliver LNG to retail stations, industry and ships,” Gate said. The Dutch terminal started the truck service in 2014 with one bay and has experienced a year-by-year surge in the business leading to 750 trucks being loaded in the first half of 2017.

Elengy, the liquefied natural gas terminal operator of French energy company Engie, has signed an accord with the Dutch Gate import terminal in Rotterdam to cooperate on truck-loading and bunkering.