LNG

Belgian and Spanish LNG terminals and gas network owners Fluxys and Enagas have signed an agreement to jointly sell their total stakes in Swedegas, the owner and operator of the high-pressure gas grid in Sweden and a growing participant in the LNG fuel market.

LNG importer Argentina will advance its plans to halt shipments within a couple of years as it expects development of its own resources in the Vaca Muerta shale-gas region will lead to the restart of pipeline gas exports to Chile as early as October.

Sept 28 (LNGJ) - The 137,500 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Bayelsa” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on September 30 to the Quintero import terminal in Chile, according to shipping data. The shipment was re-loaded onto the carrier on September 13 at the Huelva terminal in southwest Spain. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Milaha Qatar” will unload a shipment on October 2 at the Tai-Chung import terminal in Taiwan from Ras Laffan in Qatar. The 136,000 cubic metres capacity “Raahi” will deliver a Qatari cargo on October 2 to the Dahej terminal in India, operated by Petronet.

Spanish liquefied natural gas terminal operator and transmission company Enagas reported a 25.6 percent rise in first-half net profit to 269.1 million euros ($310M), including a gain from the Chilean Quintero LNG business and more revenue from higher gas demand in Spain.

July 6 (LNGJ) – The 174,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Gaslog Geneva” is unloading a shipment on July 6 at the Aqaba import facility in the Kingdom of Jordan from the Bonny Island plant in Nigeria, according to shipping data. The 138,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “British Innovator”, operated by BP Shipping, will deliver a cargo on July 9 to the Quintero import terminal in Chile from the Trinidad export plant at Point Fortin in the Caribbean.

State-owned Chilean energy company Empresa Nacional del Petroleo (ENAP) and power utility Colbun have signed a 12-year deal worth up to US$400 million for natural gas supplies and regasification services from the Quintero LNG import terminal in Chile.

May 26 (LNGJ) - The 137,230 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Rivers” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on June 2 to the Hazira import terminal near Mumbai in India from the Bonny Island plant in Nigeria. The 161,870 cubic metres capacity “Maran Gas Alexandria” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on June 14 to the Quintero terminal in Chile from the US Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana.

Spanish liquefied natural gas terminal operator and transmission company Enagas reported a 1.6 percent increase in net profit to 102.8 million euros ($110M) as domestic demand grew. There was also an additional one-off gain of 52.4M euros linked to selling part of its stake in the Quintero LNG import terminal in Chile.

Enagas, the Spanish natural gas transmission company with stakes in six of the nation’s seven LNG import terminals, said demand for natural gas in the domestic market increased by 2 percent in the first half of the year compared with 2015 as it maintained its net profit levels.

Novatek, the second-largest Russian natural gas company after Gazprom and developer of the Yamal LNG project in the Arctic region of Russia, has supplied its first spot cargo as a marketing exercise sourced from the Trinidad liquefaction plant in the Caribbean and shipped to a customer in Chile.