June 14 (LNGJ) - The Netherlands can expect to receive at least three more LNG deliveries for the remainder of June amid rising natural gas prices with the day-ahead Dutch Title Transfer Facility spot price on the European Energy Exchange hitting the equivalent of $11.240 per million British thermal units. The “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 cubic metres of capacity is scheduled to discharge a cargo from Angola on June 19 at the Dutch Gate terminal in Rotterdam, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on June 4 from the southwest African nation’s plant at Soyo.
The “Maran Gas Pericles” carrier, with 174,000 cubic metres capacity, was due to deliver a shipment on June 21 to the newest Dutch facility at Eemshaven in Groningen from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana and lifted on June 6. The Rotterdam terminal is due to receive a US cargo on June 24 on board the 176,300 cubic metres capacity “Rioja Knutsen” and lifted on June 9 from the Corpus Christi plant in Texas.
May 18 (LNGJ) - The Netherlands is scheduled to receive two US cargoes over the next few days, one at Groningen’s Eemshaven port and one at the Gate terminal in Rotterdam as gas price dropped to two-year lows. The Dutch Title Transfer Facility benchmark natural gas price was last at the equivalent of $9.975 per million British thermal units.
The “Maran Gas Pericles” carrier, with 174,000 cubic metres capacity, was scheduled to deliver a shipment on May 19 to Eemshaven from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana and lifted on May 4. The “LNG Rosenrot”, with capacity of 177,000 cubic metres, will berth at the Gate facility on May 21 with a delivery from Freeport LNG in Texas.
May 30 (LNGJ) – Two LNG cargoes are heading for Spain as European Union gas prices remain high at around the equivalent of $27.35 per million British thermal units for the Dutch Title Transfer Facility price. The 174,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Maran Gas Pericles” is scheduled to discharge a cargo on June 1 at the Barcelona LNG import terminal in northeast Spain, according to shipping data. A second Nigerian shipment is then due at the Barcelona facility on June 6 on board the 143,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG River Orashi”, which lifted the cargo from the Nigeria LNG plant on May 18.
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, the world's second-largest shipbuilder by construction contracts, said it received an order from a Greek shipping company to construct a liquefied natural gas floating storage and regasification unit.
US LNG exports data showed that in the latest month of shipments a total of 26 cargoes were delivered to 12 different nations, including six in Central America, the Caribbean and South America, four in Asia and one in the Middle East and one in Europe.
The newest LNG carrier of Maran Gas Maritime, the LNG shipping company of the John Angelicoussis shipping group, Greece’s largest shipowner, has been chartered to Shell and is headed for Australia to lift its first cargo, according to shipping data.