LNG

July 4 (LNGJ) - At last three LNG cargoes are headed for the Netherlands in the next two week. The “Asia Integrity” carrier with 160,000 cubic metres of capacity is scheduled to deliver a cargo on July 6 from Equatorial Guinea in West Africa to the Eemshaven terminal in Groningen. Shipping data shows that the cargo was lifted on June 15 from the Punta Europa plant on the African nation’s Bioko Island.

   The “Maran Gas Ulysses” with 174,000 cubic metres of capacity is due to deliver a US shipment to Eemshaven on July 10. The cargo was loaded on June 25 at Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana. A second US delivery to the Netherlands will be made on July 18 to the Gate terminal in Rotterdam by the “LNG Sakura” carrier with 177,000 cubic metres of capacity. The cargo was lifted on June 29 from the Cove Point plant in Maryland.

Dec 26 (LNG) - The US Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, operated by the largest US LNG exporter Cheniere Energy, is scheduled to deliver two LNG cargoes to the UK, including the first shipment of 2023, according to shipping data.

   The LNG carrier “Nohshu Maru” with capacity 177,300 cubic metres is scheduled to discharge a cargo on December 30 from Sabine Pass plant at the UK South Hook terminal in the Welsh port of Milford Haven. Then on January 1, the “LNG Sakura”, with 177,000 cubic metres of capacity, will deliver a shipment to South Hook lifted on December 19 from the Louisiana facility.

Nov 28 (LNGJ) - UK natural gas prices have steadily risen this month to above the level of last year’s elevated prices. As LNG demand remains at record levels in the UK and Continental Europe, the 177,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Sakura” is scheduled to discharge a cargo on November 30 at the UK South Hook import terminal at Milford Haven in Wales.

   The vessel lifted the cargo on November 5 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, according to shipping data. The vessel's arrival coincides with a surge in UK wholesale natural gas prices for December to $34.85 million British thermal units compared with $31.65 per MMBtu exactly a year ago.

Tokyo Gas, the largest Japanese LNG importer after Jera Co. Inc., has received its first cargo from the Cove Point export plant in Maryland where Japanese and Indian utilities have 20-year tolling agreement.