LNG

Golar LNG Partners, the US affiliate of the Bermuda-based fleet owner, swung to a first-quarter loss as it commissioned the “Golar Freeze” offshore Jamaica to serve as an import facility amid a drop of day-rate prices because of high volumes and low season demand.

Oct 13 (LNGJ) - The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Al Ghariya” will deliver a cargo on October 15 to the Mina Al Ahamdi import terminal in Kuwait from Ras Laffan in Qatar, according to shipping data. The 147,200 cubic metres “Arctic Lady” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on October 19 to the Jebel Ali import facility in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from the Hammerfest plant in Norway. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity “Cool Voyager” will unload a shipment on October 20 at the Egyptian port of Ain Sokhna in the Gulf of Suez from Qatargas in Ras Laffan.

July 13 (LNGJ) - Golar LNG Partners, the Nasdaq-listed US unit of the Norwegian fleet owner, said it had agreed certain amendments with the Dubai Supply Authority for the charter of the “Golar Freeze” floating storage and regasification unit deployed at Jebel Ali Port in the United Arab Emirates until May 2020. Dubai has two FSRUs on contract and does not currently fully use the “Golar Freeze”. Consequently, the charter has been shortened by a year until April 2019. “The operating cost element of the charter will be reduced to a nominal amount from November 2017 and Golar will similarly save operating costs from putting the vessel into lay-up pending new employment,” said Golar.

July 4 (LNGJ) - The 170,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Methane Micki Harper” is unloading a cargo at the import facility at Jebel Ali port in Dubai that was lifted on June 22 from the Woodside Petroleum terminal at Dampier in Western Australia, according to shipping data. In other shipping movements, the 127,700 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Flora” will deliver a shipment on July 12 to the Japanese Himeji import terminal, operated by Kansai Electric, from the Western Australia terminal at Dampier. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Dream” departed the Withnell Bay LNG 2 Jetty in Western Australian to deliver a cargo from Woodside on July 13 to the Japanese Senboku terminal, operated by Osaka Gas in the Kansai region.

June 16 (LNGJ) - The United Arab Emirates has turned to the southwest African LNG plant in Angola for supplies to help replace volumes normally shipped from Qatar. The 160,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Malanje” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on June 29 to the UAE import facility at the port of Jebel Ali in Dubai, according to shipping data. The UAE imported 3.10 million tonnes of LNG in 2016. Among the largest volumes, 950,000 tonnes came from Qatar, 750,000 tonnes came from Nigeria and there were no deliveries from Angola.

March 2 (LNGJ) – The 266,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Max carrier “Al Bahiya” is unloading a cargo from Qatar at the Map Ta Phut import terminal in Thailand, according to shipping data. The 150,900 cubic metres capacity FSRU “Explorer”, owned by the Excelerate-Exmar joint venture, has docked at the Dubai Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates. The 174,000 cubic metres capacity “Gaslog Greece” has departed from the Queensland Curtis LNG plant at the port of Gladstone and is scheduled to arrive on March 16 at the Chinese Dongguan terminal in the southeast province of Guangdong. The 147,200 cubic metres capacity “Arctic Princess” has left the Hammerfest plant in Northern Norway, operated by Statoil, to deliver a cargo on March 12 to the Aliaga terminal in Turkey.

Sept 15 (LNGJ) - Excelerate Energy of the US and Dubai Supply Authority have completed the first commercial gas-up operation at the Jebel Ali LNG import facility in the United Arab Emirates via Excelerate's floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) “Explorer”. The FSRU gassed-up all five tanks of a 173,000 cubic metres capacity LNG Carrier in a 17-hour period. “Dubai Supply Authority’s ability to utilize the FSRU for these operations will allow LNG vessels departing regional dry docks to avoid having to travel significant distances to perform this required step in the LNG cargo cycle, making Dubai a full-service LNG hub,” Excelerate said.