LNG

EU member states spent more than €7.2 billion ($8.4 billion) on Yamal LNG last year – despite a full ban on LNG imports coming into force on January 1, 2027.  “Russia has no adequate alternative to the EU market,” Urgewalt analysts commented, noting more than three-quarters of all Yamal LNG exports currently go to Europe.

French utility Engie, the parent company of France's network operator and LNG terminals owner, said its US$8.6 billion joint bid with a Canadian fund won the competitive tender conducted by Brazilian energy company Petrobras for the sale of the South American nation’s largest gas transmission network.

French pipeline company GRTgaz has inaugurated its Val de Saone project in eastern France that will fully amalgamate LNG and pipeline supplies and boost capacity on the North-South axis, creating a single natural gas market in France from November.

Fluxys of Belgium, the operator of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal as well as the Belgian natural gas network and gas trading operations, has carried out its first trans-shipment operation before it starts its business of handling cargoes from the Yamal liquefaction plant in the Russian Arctic region from 2019.

Elengy of France, owner of three of the nation’s liquefied natural gas import terminals, said it planned to build a truck-loading station at the Fos Cavaou facility near the Mediterranean port of Marseilles to boost distribution in the region.

March 21 (LNGJ) - The 172,600 cubic metres capacity carrier “Christophe de Margerie”, is scheduled to deliver a shipment on March 24 to the French Montoir de Bretagne import terminal on the Atlantic coast from the Russian Yamal plant in Siberia, according to shipping data. The 138,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “British Innovator”, operated by BP Shipping, is scheduled to deliver a cargo on March 31 to the Tai-Chung import terminal in Taiwan from the Trinidad export plant in the Caribbean. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Al Ruwais” will unload a Qatargas shipment on April 1 at the Japanese Futtsu import facility, operated by Tokyo Electric Power.

Feb 15 (LNGJ) - The 148,300 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Ondo” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on February 18 to the French Montoir-de-Bretagne import terminal on the West Coast from the Nigeria LNG plant at Bonny Island, according to shipping data. The 141,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG River Niger” will deliver a second shipment on February 24 to France’s Montoir terminal. The 165,500 cubic metres capacity carrier “Magellan Spirit”, operated by Teekay LNG, was expected to lift a cargo on February 17 from the US Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana. The 174,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Maran Gas Achilles” will be lifting a shipment on February 21 from the Bontang export plant in Indonesia for delivery to an Asian terminal. The 170,000 cubic metres capacity “Methane Julia Louise” will deliver a cargo on February 22 to the Tianjin import facility in northeast China from the Queensland Curtis plant in Gladstone, Eastern Australia.

Dec 19 (LNGJ) - The 160,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Soyo” will deliver a shipment on December 20 to the Indian Dahej terminal, located north of Mumbai, from the Angola plant in southwest Africa, according to shipping data. The 138,088 cubic metres capacity carrier “Berge Arzew” is scheduled to deliver an Algerian cargo on December 23 to the Turkish Aliaga facility near the port of Izmir. The 137,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Rivers” will unload a shipment on December 26 at the Montoir-de-Bretagne import terminal in Western France from the Bonny Island plant in Nigeria.

July 25 (LNGJ) - The 141,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “LNG Cross River” is scheduled to deliver a cargo to the Montoir-de-Bretagne terminal in Western France on July 28 from the Bonny Island plant in Nigeria, according to shipping data. The 154,900 cubic metres capacity vessel “Trinity Arrow” will unload a Nigerian cargo on August 1 at the Klaipeda terminal in the Baltic state of Lithuania.

May 31 (LNGJ) -  The 160,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Asia Vision” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on June 9 to the Dahej import terminal, located north of Mumbai and operated by Petronet. The cargo was lifted from the Gorgon export terminal in Western Australia, according to shipping data. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Al Deebel” will deliver a Qatari cargo on June 9 to the Tai-chung import terminal in Taiwan. The 177,000 cubic metres capacity ship “LNG Lagos II” will unload a shipment on June 17 at the Montoir-de-Bretagne terminal in Western France from the Bonny Island plant of Nigeria LNG.