LNG

One of the main pipelines planned to ship US natural gas to Mexico, whose route is from South Texas to the Mexican state of Veracruz, is scheduled to enter service in the weeks ahead after some hold-ups caused by bad weather and will lessen LNG requirements.

The US Corpus Christi liquefied natural gas export plant in Texas has an LNG carrier at a mooring near the facility as it prepares to ship its first cargo and become the third large-scale LNG export facility to enter commercial production in the US.

Mexico is continuing to import growing volumes of pipeline natural gas and LNG as monthly shipments increased by more than 13 percent from the US cross-border pipelines and in the form of cargoes from the Sabine Pass liquefaction plant in the US state of Louisiana and other LNG exporting countries such as Nigeria and Peru.

June 27 (LNGJ) - The 266,000 cubic meters capacity Q-Max vessel “Rasheeda” will deliver a cargo on June 28 to the Chinese Tangshan terminal at Caofeidian Port in northeast Hebei province from Ras Laffan plant in Qatar, according to shipping data. The carrier 177,000 cubic metres capacity “Spirit of Hela” will deliver a shipment on June 29 to the Higashi Oghishima terminal in Japan from Papua New Guinea. The 151,700 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Areesh” will deliver a Qatargas cargo on June 29 to the Adriatic LNG facility offshore Italy. The 161,880 cubic metres capacity vessel “BW Pavilion Leeara” will deliver a shipment on July 1 to the Manzanillo terminal on the Pacific Coast of Mexico from the Cove Point export plant in Maryland. The 152,300 cubic metres capacity carrier “Seri Begawan” will deliver a cargo on July 3 to the Pengerang regasification terminal in Malaysia from the Gladstone plant in Queensland, Australia. The 148,300 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Ondo” will unload a cargo on July 7 at the Huelva facility in southwest Spain from the Nigerian plant at Bonny Island. The 173,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Flex Endeavour” will deliver a shipment from Qatar on July 7 to the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium.

Mexico, the largest customer for US LNG with 65 cargoes received since 2016 and other shipments brought in from nations such as Nigeria, is planning a tender for strategic storage of natural gas at four depleted oil and gas reservoirs.

The Mexican liquefied natural gas import terminal at Manzanillo on the Pacific Coast has been attracting its most cargoes ever with shipments arriving recently from the US Sabine Pass plant as well as from Peru and Trinidad.

While the Sabine Pass liquefaction and export plant in Louisiana has recently shipped LNG to the Mexican Pacific Coast import terminal at Manzanillo, US pipeline exports of natural gas continued to grow and have doubled since 2009.

Nov 17 (LNGJ) - The 161,870 cubic metres capacity “Maran Gas Alexandria” has lifted a cargo from the US Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana and is headed for the Panama Canal, according to shipping data. The previous cargo lifted from Sabine Pass by the vessel 155,900 “Clean Ocean”, was delivered to the Manzanillo import facility on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The “Clean Ocean” is owned by Greek shipping line Dynagas and chartered to Sabine Pass owner Cheniere Energy under a five-year contract ending in the second quarter of 2020.

Australian liquefied natural gas export values climbed to a 22-month high as more cargoes were shipped at higher prices to nations such as Mexico in the backyard of the US, one of Australia’s LNG market rivals.