LNG

China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. has been awarded a contract to build a second LNG import terminal at Tangshan in northeast Hebei province and the cost of the project is estimated at 8 billion Chinese yuan ($1.1Bln) for the first and second phases.

Chinese LNG imports surged by 33 percent last month with cargoes from nations such as Australia, Angola, Cuba, Russia and Qatar and were also up in the January-July period by 47 percent as the Asian nation maintained its growing levels of natural gas demand amid the commercial start-ups of more import infrastructure.

July 23 (LNGJ) – Russia and Qatar are delivering cargoes in the next week to Europe, the Middle East and China. The 170,200 cubic metres capacity carrier “Pskov” will unload a shipment on July 28 at the French Dunkirk terminal from the Yamal Peninsula plant at Sabetta in Siberia, according to shipping data. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex carrier “Um Al Amad” will unload a shipment on July 29 at the Mina Al Ahmadi facility in Kuwait from Ras Laffan in Qatar. The 210,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex vessel “Al Oraiq” will unload a Qatargas shipment on July 30 at the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium. The 172,600 cubic metres capacity carrier “Christophe de Margerie” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on July 31 to the Tangshan terminal in the northeast Hebei province of China from the Russian Yamal plant.

June 27 (LNGJ) - The 266,000 cubic meters capacity Q-Max vessel “Rasheeda” will deliver a cargo on June 28 to the Chinese Tangshan terminal at Caofeidian Port in northeast Hebei province from Ras Laffan plant in Qatar, according to shipping data. The carrier 177,000 cubic metres capacity “Spirit of Hela” will deliver a shipment on June 29 to the Higashi Oghishima terminal in Japan from Papua New Guinea. The 151,700 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Areesh” will deliver a Qatargas cargo on June 29 to the Adriatic LNG facility offshore Italy. The 161,880 cubic metres capacity vessel “BW Pavilion Leeara” will deliver a shipment on July 1 to the Manzanillo terminal on the Pacific Coast of Mexico from the Cove Point export plant in Maryland. The 152,300 cubic metres capacity carrier “Seri Begawan” will deliver a cargo on July 3 to the Pengerang regasification terminal in Malaysia from the Gladstone plant in Queensland, Australia. The 148,300 cubic metres capacity vessel “LNG Ondo” will unload a cargo on July 7 at the Huelva facility in southwest Spain from the Nigerian plant at Bonny Island. The 173,400 cubic metres capacity carrier “Flex Endeavour” will deliver a shipment from Qatar on July 7 to the Zeebrugge terminal in Belgium.

PetroChina plans to expand the Tangshan LNG import terminal that supplies the capital Beijing to become the largest of the nation’s network of 18 terminals, while the company will also start building work soon on its fourth regasfication facility.

The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission has urged natural gas supply companies to “standardize price behaviour” amid a surge in demand for pipeline natural gas and LNG for delivery to import facilities such as Tangshan and Tianjin as colder weather hits Northern China.