LNG

Nov 22 (LNGJ) - LNG cargoes are heading for Belgium and the Netherlands over the next week. The vessel “Maran Gas Troy” with 159,800 of capacity is scheduled to berth with a US cargo on November 23 at the Belgian import terminal at Zeebrugge. The shipment was lifted on November 10 from the Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana, according to shipping data. A Russian delivery is then scheduled at Zeebrugge on November 26 onboard the carrier “Boris Davydov” with 172,000 cubic metres capacity. The cargo was loaded on November 20 at the Sabetta terminal on the Yamal Peninsula of northern Siberia.

   A third cargo is then due at Zeebrugge on November 29 from Angola on the vessel “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 metres of capacity. The volumes were lifted on November 13 from the Soyo export plant in the southwest African nation. Two cargoes are heading for the Netherlands from Texas. The “Adamastos” with 174,100 cubic metres of capacity is scheduled to arrive at November 25 at the Eemshaven facility in Groningen with a cargo from the Corpus Christi plant in Texas lifted on November 10. The carrier “WilPride” with 156,000 cubic metres capacity will discharge a Texas cargo on November 29 at the Gate terminal in Rotterdam. The volumes were loaded at Corpus Christi on November 13.

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.

Feb 21 (LNGJ) - Three LNG cargoes are due in Europe in the next few days, heading for the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. The UK is scheduled to receive a shipment from Angola at the Isle of Grain terminal southeast of London on February 23 from the “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 cubic metres of capacity. The cargo was lifted on February 7 from the southwest African nation’s Soyo plant, operated by Chevron.

   The 179,980 cubic metres capacity “Adriano Knutsen” is due to deliver a US shipment on February 24 to the Gate terminal in Rotterdam. The cargo was lifted on February 11 from the Corpus Christi plant in Texas operated by Cheniere Energy. The delivery for Belgium at Zeebrugge will come on February 24 from Qatar onboard the 147,800 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Deebel”, which departed on February 6 from the Qatari plant at Ras Laffan.

Jan 11 (LNGJ) - The UK is scheduled to receive its third LNG shipment from Angola in the past two weeks when the “Sonangol Benguela” with 160,500 cubic metres capacity berths on January 12 at the Isle of Grain LNG import terminal on the Medway River southeast of London, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on December 29 from the Soyo LNG export plant near the Congo River delta in southwest Africa.

The southwest African nation of Angola, a liquefied natural gas exporter to nations such as India and China, has signed an accord with an American company to set up LNG import facilities as part of a gas-to-power project.

Indian LNG imports soared last month by almost 39 percent as shipment came from nations such as Qatar, Australia, the US and Angola as India prepared to bring a fifth regasification terminal on line on the West Coast as it awaits its first facility on the East Coast.

May 26 (LNGJ) - The 160,500 cubic metres capacity carrier “Sonangol Benguela” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on May 31 to the Mugardos terminal at El Ferrol port in northwest Spain from the Soyo export plant in Angola, southwest Africa, according to shipping data. The 160,500 cubic metres capacity “Sonangol Etosha” will unload a shipment on June 10 at the Tong-Yeong terminal in South Korea, operated by Korea Gas Corp., from the Angola LNG plant.

Nov 29 (LNGJ) - The 160,500 cubic metres capacity vessel “Sonangol Benguela” will deliver a cargo on December 1 to the Sagunto import terminal in eastern Spain from the Soyo export plant in the southwest African nation of Angola, according to shipping data. The 147,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Lady” will deliver a cargo to the Spanish port of Barcelona on December 7 from the Hammerfest plant in Northern Norway.