LNG

The European Commission is paying Poland €3.85 billion ($4.04Bln) to support the initial aftermath of the shutdown of coal mines in five Polish regions as the nation increases LNG and pipeline natural gas imports as well as developming renewable energy sources.

Oct 13 (LNGJ) - The 173,400 cubic metres capacity vessel “Flex Constellation” is scheduled to deliver a US LNG cargo on October 19 to the UK South Hook import terminal at Milford Haven, according to shipping data. The cargo was lifted on October 4 from Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi export plant in Texas.

   In other shipping movements, the 211,980 cubic metres capacity Qatari Q-Flex carrier “Al Rekayyat” was traversing the English Channel on October 13 enroute to deliver a cargo on October 17 to the Polish Swinoujscie import terminal on the Baltic Sea coast. The cargo was loaded at Ras Laffan in the Arabian Gulf on September 26.

Polish Oil and Gas Company has signed a charter contract for four more LNG carriers and they will be placed into service to operate for the company’s trading unit as the Poles increase their marketing activities.

Equinor, the Norwegian supplier of pipeline natural gas and LNG to Europe, has made its sixth discovery on the Norwegian shelf so far in 2021 and the success was shared by Polish Oil and Gas Company.

June 25 (LNGJ) - Poland signed contracts worth $483 million to expand the LNG import terminal at Swinoujscie on the Baltic Sea coast to 6 million tonnes per annum of capacity from the current 3.7 MTPA by 2023. The contract was signed on the Polish side by network operator Gaz-System and the ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie and on the engineering side by the two contractors, Porr AG of Germany and Bonn-based European LNG specialists TGE Gas Engineering.

   State-run Poland Oil and Gas Company has said it does not intend to extend its long-term pipeline gas supply contract with Russia’s Gazprom beyond 2022 when it expires.

Polish Oil and Gas Company has signed an agreement with US liquefied natural gas development company Venture Global to buy 1.5 million tonnes per annum of additional supplies as it aims to reduce its dependence on Russian pipeline gas.

Jan 24 (LNGJ) - Polskie LNG, the operator of the Polish import terminal at the Baltic port of Swinoujscie, said it had received environmental permits for its planned expansion of regasification capacity, storage and loading, allowing it to complete contract tenders. The Polish terminal began operations in 2009 and can currently receive almost 4 million tonnes per annum of LNG. Two tender procedures are currently in progress for the terminal. “The objective of the first is the selection of the contractor for three key components, construction of the third storage tank, process installations to increase regasification capacity and the LNG-to-rail transhipment installation along with a dedicated railway siding,” said the company. The deadline for the first tender has been extended to February 19. A second tender with a February 26 deadline is for the building of an additional jetty in cooperation with the Szczecin and Swinoujscie Seaports Authority.

The Russian port and enclave of Kaliningrad is now self-sufficient in LNG after a delivery via the floating storage and regasification unit, the “Marshal Vasilevskiy”, to the small area separated from Russia and bordering Lithuania and Poland.

Jan 3 (LNGJ) – Seven cargoes will be unloaded at European terminals in the next week. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity “Methane Rita Andrea” is delivering a shipment on January 3 to the Aliaga facility near the port of Izmir in Turkey from the Trinidad plant in the Caribbean, according to shipping data. The 75,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Cheik Bouamama” is unloading a cargo on January 4 at the Italian Panigaglia terminal near Genoa from the Skikda plant in Algeria. The 141,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Cross River” will deliver a cargo on January 4 to the Sines terminal in Portugal from the Nigerian plant on Bonny Island.
   The 147,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Princess” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on January 5 to the Dunkirk import terminal on the Channel coast of France from the Equinor plant at Hammerfest in Norway. The 216,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Hamla” is scheduled to deliver a Qatargas shipment on January 5 to the Swinoujscie terminal in Poland. The 150,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Seri Camar” will deliver a cargo on January 9 to the Aliaga facility in Turkey from the US Cove Point plant in Maryland. The 145,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Milaha Qatar” will unload a Qatargas shipment on January 11 at the Adriatic LNG import facility in Italy.

Poland is on track to receive additional volumes of liquefied natural gas imports from the US under purchase contracts signed by commercial companies, though the Poles would have to boost their regasification and import capacity to enjoy the economic advantages of the Transatlantic shipments.