LNG

GTT has received an order from China Chengda Engineering Co. to design three very large onshore LNG storage tanks for PipeChina’s Yuedong LNG terminal in Jieyang, Guangdong province.

China took its liquefied natural gas terminal network to 19 as two more facilities were formally brought into service in August at Zhoushan in the eastern Zhejiang province and at Dapeng New District in the southern province of Guangdong.

British Columbia Premier John Horgan leaves on January 20 for a 10-day tour of China, South Korea and Japan with a trade delegation amid a coalition partner threat to bring down his government if liquefied natural gas proposals are put to Asian nations.

Chinese liquefied natural gas imports increased in March as volumes arrived from new projects in Australia, though the pace of deliveries was still less than what is needed to reach the 2017 forecast total of 33 million tonnes or more.

Nov 3 (LNGJ) - The 147,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Dapeng Star” is lifting a cargo from the Woodside operated North West Shelf plant after docking at the Withnell Bay jetty at the Western Australian port of Dampier. The shipment is headed on the Hong Kong-flagged vessel for the Chinese Guangdong terminal on the Pearl River delta. The 152,300 cubic metres capacity “Seri Begawan”, operated by Malaysia International Shipping Corp., has docked at the Santos-operated Gladstone LNG plant in Queensland, Australia, to lift a cargo for Asia.

Since the expanded Panama Canal started operating a total of 13 LNG carriers had transited the waterway by the end of September 2016. Of these there were eight ships carrying cargoes.

A potentially vast export market for the United States opened last week when the first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the US sailed into China and was unloaded at a terminal in the southeast province of Guangdong.