Three cargoes for UK
Jan 16 (LNGJ) – While the UK will face some delay in receiving more LNG supplies from Qatar the two import terminals at the port of Milford Haven, South Hook LNG and Dragon LNG, are scheduled to receive cargoes in the days ahead from Angola, Egypt and Cove Point in the US state of Maryland. The carrier “Lobita” with 154,950 cubic metres capacity is due to berth on January 18 at the Dragon facility at the Welsh port, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on January 6 from Angola’s Soyo export plant.
The “Huleva Knutsen” with 170,250 cubic metres capacity is then due to discharge a shipment on January 20 at the Dragon facility. The cargo was loaded on Janaury 7 at the Egyptian Idku plant located east of Alexandria. The third delivery will be on January 22 to the South Hook terminal from the US plant at Cove Point. The “Global Sea Spirit” with capacity of 170,800 cubic metres capacity lifted the cargo on January 7.
Egypt and US cargoes
March 2 (LNGJ) - The UK is scheduled to receive three more LNG cargoes in the next week at the port of Milford Haven. The 155,900 cubic metres capacity vessel “Wilforce” is due to discharge a US cargo at the South Hook terminal on March 3 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana.
The carrier “Kool Boreas” with 170,200 cubic metres capacity is scheduled to deliver an Egyptian shipment on March 7 to the Dragon terminal at the Welsh port, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on February 26 from the Idku plant located east of the Egyptian port Alexandria. A third Milford Haven cargo will arrive at South Hook on March 9 from Sabine Pass on board the 170,800 cubic metres capacity carrier “Global Sea Spirit”.
US cargoes for UK
Feb 6 (LNGJ) - Two LNG deliveries are scheduled this week for the UK South Hook LNG import terminal at Milford Haven in Wales. Both deliveries are from the Sabine Pass export facility in Louisiana operated by Cheniere Energy.
The first cargo will be discharged on February 8 from the 170,800 cubic meters capacity vessel “Global Sea Spirit”, which departed Sabine Pass on January 25, according to shipping data. The second delivery will be on February 10 from the carrier “GasLog Hong Kong” with capacity of 174,000 cubic metres.
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Qatari LNG fleet owner and manager Nakilat takes delivery of newbuild to be chartered by Cheniere unit
Qatari liquefied natural gas fleet owner and operator, Nakilat, has taken delivery of a newbuild carrier called “Global Sea Spirit”, its 22nd conventional-sized vessel and taking Qatar’s overall LNG fleet size to 74 ships.
The 174,000 cubic metres capacity “Global Sea Spirit” will be commercially and technically managed by Nakilat affiliate Nakilat Shipping Qatar Ltd (NSQL).
The latest LNG carrier was built by South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) and is the third of four LNG newbuild carriers to be delivered to Global Shipping Co. Ltd., a joint venture owned 60 percent by Nakilat and 40 percent by Greek company Maran Ventures Inc.
The first two LNG carriers newbuilds of the series have high-pressure M-Type Electronically Controlled-Gas Injection (ME-GI) engines.
They were delivered in May 2020 and January 2021 respectively and are currently in service.
The “Global Sea Spirit” is the first Nakilat vessel with X-DF propulsion, a slow-speed diesel engine with a direct drive to the propellers, enabling a substantial reduction in the vessel’s fuel consumption.
The fourth in the current DSME series will also have X-DF engines and delivery is scheduled for early 2022.
Advantages
“Like the ME-GI system, vessels running with X-DF engines propulsion are proven to be more fuel efficient, reduce greenhouse emissions and are more environmentally friendly due to their lower carbon emissions,” said Nakilat.
The “Global Sea Spirit” is chartered to Cheniere Marketing, a unit of Houston, Texas-based Cheniere Energy, owner of the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana and the Corpus Christi facility in Texas.
The newbuild is the optimum size preferred for sending US Gulf Coast cargoes via the Panama Canal to North Asia.
The delivery of all four newbuild LNG carriers by 2022 will bring Nakilat’s fleet to 74 vessels, which is just under 12 percent of the current global LNG fleet based on carrying capacity.
Of these, there are 24 LNG carriers, four liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier and one floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) vessel being managed in-house by NSQL.
