LNG

June 26 (LNGJ) - The 171,800 cubic metres capacity carrier “Stena Clear Sky” will lift a cargo on July 1 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, owned by Cheniere Energy, according to shipping data. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Aurora” will deliver a shipment on July 3 to the import facility in the Mediterranean island state of Malta from the Hammerfest plant in Norway, operated by Equinor. The 210,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Al Khattiya” is scheduled to unload a shipment on July 8 at the Portuguese import terminal at Sines from the Ras Laffan plant in Qatar. The 261,700 cubic metres capacity Q-Max carrier “Lijmiliya” will unload a Qatargas shipment on July 8 at the South Korean Incheon terminal. The 165,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Marib Spirit” will deliver a cargo on July 12 to the Kuwaiti Mina Al Ahmadi import facility from the Nigerian export plant at Bonny Island. The 165,500 cubic metres capacity vessel “Meridian Spirit” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on July 21 to the Dahej terminal in India, owned by Petronet, from the US Sabine Pass plant.

Jan 16 (LNGJ) - Reganosa, owner of the Mugardos import terminal at El Ferrol in northwest Spain, is the company with the contract to operate and maintain the first LNG regasification project of the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. The facility has just been brought on line with the recent delivery of the first cargo to the 125,000 cubic metres capacity LNG storage unit, the “LNG Armada Mediterrana”, to supply a combined-cycle gas power plant with capacity of 215 megawatts. Electrogas is a joint venture involving German power group Siemens, Azerbaijan energy company SOCAR and Maltese firm Gem Holdings Ltd.

Malta, the Mediterranean island nation and the smallest member of the European Union, has received a liquefied natural gas cargo from Spain at its floating storage unit in Marsaxlokk Bay to help complete its transformation into an LNG importer.

The Mediterranean island of Malta has seen the arrival offshore of a floating storage unit that will serve as a liquefied natural gas import facility moored next to a gas-fired power station.

Malta will soon become the smallest European nation with liquefied natural gas import capability when a Floating Storage Unit leaves Singapore on September 11 bound for a Maltese port where it will be permanently moored next to a gas-fired power station.

Aug 5 (LNGJ) - A floating gas storage unit (FSU), headed for Malta from Singapore, will enable Maltese citizens to “start breathing cleaner air,” prime minister Joseph Muscat suggested. Due to arrive by September, the vessel will store LNG which will then be regasified onshore for use in new gas-fired power plants.