LNG

Sept 4 (LNG) – Three cargoes are heading for Northwest European LNG import terminals in the days ahead. The “Berge Arzew” with 138,100 of capacity is due to deliver a cargo from Algeria on September 6 to the UK Isle of Grain terminal on the Medway River in Kent, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on August 29 from the Algerian plant at Arzew.

   The carrier “BW Lilac” with 174,300 cubic metres capacity is scheduled to discharge a US cargo on September 6 at the Dutch Gate terminal in Rotterdam. The cargo was lifted on August 24 from the Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana. Belgium will receive a shipment from Qatar on September 7 at the Zeebrugge terminal onboard the “Al Marrouna” with 149,540 cubic metres capacity. The cargo was loaded on August 20 at the Ras Laffan plant in the Arabian Gulf.

Jan 11 (LNGJ) - The UK is scheduled to receive its third LNG shipment from Angola in the past two weeks when the “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 cubic metres capacity berths on January 12 at the Isle of Grain LNG import terminal on the Medway River southeast of London, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on December 29 from the Soyo LNG export plant near the Congo River delta in southwest Africa.

Nov 24 (LNGJ) - The 154,800 cubic metres capacity “BW Pavilion Leeara” is scheduled to discharge a cargo on November 24 at the National Grid-owned Isle of Grain import terminal on the Medway River in the county of Kent, southeast of London, after three days at anchor nearby. The vessel lifted a cargo on November 2 from the Corpus Christi plant in Texas, according to shipping data. The vessel's arrival coincided with a surge in natural gas prices in the UK and Continental Europe because of colder weather.

Sept 28 (LNGJ) – LNG cargoes are heading for ports in the UK and the Netherlands. The 174,000 cubic metres vessel “LNG Enterprise” is scheduled to unload a US shipment on September 29 at the UK Isle of Grain terminal, operated by National Grid, and located southeast of London on the Medway River estuary. The cargo was lifted from Cameron LNG in Louisiana on September 15, according to shipping data.

   An LNG cargo from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, lifted on September 13, is scheduled for delivery on September 29 to the Dutch Gate terminal in Rotterdam onboard the 177,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG Rosenrot”.

Sept 22 (LNGJ) - The UK Isle of Grain import terminal on the Medway River estuary in the County of Kent, southeast of London, is scheduled to discharge a US cargo on September 23 being delivered by the 174,000 cubic metres capacity “GasLog Hong Kong”, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on September 10 from the Cameron LNG plant at Calcasieu Pass in Louisiana.

April 20 (LNGJ) - The 180,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Rias Baixas Knutsen” is scheduled to deliver a US cargo to the UK Isle of Grain terminal in Kent by the weekend, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on April 7 from America’s newest export plant, Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass facility located south of Lake Charles in Louisiana. The delivery is scheduled as the UK National Balancing Point benchmark wholesale natural gas price has dropped to the equivalent of $22.50 per million British thermal units.

April 12 (LNGJ) - The 73,990 Med-Class LNG carrier “Cheikh El Mokrani” is scheduled to deliver an Algerian cargo on April 12 to the UK Isle of Grain import terminal operated by National Grid plc on the Medway River, about 45 miles (72km) southeast of London. The cargo was lifted on April 6 from the Skikda plant on the North African nation’s Mediterranean Coast.

March 8 (LNGJ) - The 154,880 cubic metres capacity LNG carrier “BW Pavilion Vanda” was discharging a cargo on April 8 at the Isle of Grain terminal, operated by National Grid plc on the Medway River in Kent. The cargo was lifted on March 23 from the Corpus Christi export plant in Texas, according to shipping data.

Calor, the UK's leading retail supplier of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) with 350,000 commercial customers located off the main gas grid, is building up its loading volumes from National Grid Plc’s import terminal on the Isle of Grain in Kent.

Calor has just announced the loading of its 1,200th LNG truck, which equates to more than 24,000 tonnes of LNG, supplied across the length and breadth of the UK.

“The truck-loading facility on the Isle of Grain, which is located 43 miles east of London, opened in 2015, and Calor was the first LNG supplier to load and deliver to its extensive UK LNG customer base, which ranges from large off-grid industrial applications (including food & beverage and pharmaceutical) to vehicle refuelling, to name a few,” said Calor.

Grain LNG also offers reloads, trans-shipments and other services such as reloading road tankers and ISO containers.

The National Grid subsidiary additionally has plans for a marine breakbulk facility.

Mark Gilks, Calor LNG National Account Manager, said his company was committed to delivering fuel to its customers, especially throughout the current crisis as the UK uses cleaner and greener fuel sources.

“By using LNG instead of more polluting fuels such as oil and diesel derivatives, we have helped UK businesses cut their CO2 emissions by up to 25 percent over the past five years, based on the loadings from the Isle of Grain alone,” said Gilks.

“LNG-powered trucks have comparable performance to diesel vehicles in terms of power, acceleration and cruising speed, but can cut CO2 by between 10 percent and 20 percent, dependeing on duty cycle and vehicle type,” he added.

“LNG also takes up 600 times less space than conventional natural gas making it easy to transport and store compactly in its liquid form,” stated Gilks.

The Calor executive said that the company was grateful to its operational team who have kept on going, particularly over the last few months.

“We’re incredibly proud of what we have achieved and keen to see where the next five years will take us, as we do our bit to promote the use of cleaner energy sources nationwide,” explained Gilks.

The Isle of Grain facility is the largest import terminal in Europe. It has also just launched the second phase of an on-going open season during which the market is invited to make bids with less than a month before the deadline.

Grain LNG is offering up to 300 gigawatt hours per day (7.2 million tonnes per annum of LNG) of redelivery capacity and 380,000 cubic metres of associated storage, to be made available from mid-2025.

An expansion will increase the size of the terminal, situated on the Thames-Medway estuary, to about 1.2 million cubic metres.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have rejected the Northeast Supply Enhancement project of pipeline company Williams, one of whose customers would be UK LNG importer terminal owner National Grid.