LNG

May 4 (LNGJ) - The Klaipeda LNG import terminal in the Baltic state of Lithuania, operated by energy company AB Klaipedos Nafta, said it expected to receive its first cargo from Egypt to help replace some Norwegian shipments halted by the Hammerfest plant shutdown. The cargo was lifted from the Royal Dutch Shell-operated Idku export plant, located east of the port of Alexandria. It is scheduled to arrive on May 7 in Lithuania from the East Mediterranean on board the 164,700 cubic metres capacity LNG carrier, the “LNG Fukurokuju”.

Chinese LNG imports for the first six months of 2018 were led by nations such as Australia and Qatar as they increased by just over 50 percent to 23.90 million tonnes compared with 15.89MT in the same first six months of 2017.

Oct 12 (LNGJ) - The 141,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG Akwa Ibom” will deliver a shipment on October 14 to the Huelva import terminal in southwest Spain from the Bonny Island plant in Nigeria, according to shipping data. The 145,700 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG Benue” will unload a cargo on October 23 at the Bilbao terminal in northwest Spain from Nigeria LNG.  The 165,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Fukurokuju” will deliver a cargo on October 18 to Japan’s Himeji terminal from the Australia Pacific LNG plant at Curtis Island in Queensland. The 177,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Energy Horizon” is scheduled to unload a shipment on October 19 at the Japanese Sodegaura import terminal, operated by Tokyo Gas, from Australian company Woodside’s export terminal at Dampier in Western Australia.