LNG

Jan 3 (LNGJ) - The Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez has held talks with Bulgarian Energy Minister Rossen Hristov on the European Union nation receiving regasified LNG supplies from Turkey.

   The talks covered negotiating to reserve a capacity of 1 billion cubic metres per annum from one or more of Turkey’s four LNG import facilities and for the volumes to be transferred by pipeline to the Bulgarian border by the Turkish Petroleum Pipeline Corp. (BOTAS) network.

The American Bureau of Shipping, the US maritime classification society, said it was chosen by Petroleum Pipeline Corp. of Turkey to class a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) ordered in South Korea.

Nov 14 (LNGJ) - The 266,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Max vessel “Al Bahiya” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on November 21 to the Turkish Aliaga LNG import terminal near the port of Izmir from Qatargas in Ras Laffan, according to shipping data. The 140,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Discoverer” will unload a shipment on November 23 at Turkey’s Aliaga facility from the Hammerfest plant in Norway, operated by Statoil.

Qatargas is set to become the key liquefied natural gas supplier to Turkey after Algeria under a medium-term sales and purchase agreement signed with Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corp. of Turkey, the fourth-largest net importing nation in Europe.

July 19 (LNGJ) - Two Norwegian cargoes are being shipped to terminals in Turkey and France. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Arctic Aurora”, operated by Dynagas, is scheduled to unload a shipment on July 20 at the Turkish import facility at Aliaga, near the port of Izmir, from the Statoil-operated Norwegian plant at Hammerfest. The 147,200 cubic metres capacity vessel “Arctic Lady” will deliver a cargo on July 28 to the French Fos Cavaou terminal near Marseille from the Hammerfest export plant.

July 10 (LNGJ) - The 151,700 cubic metres capacity vessel “Al Marrouna” is scheduled to unload a cargo on July 10 at the Adriatic LNG import facility offshore northeast Italy from Qatargas in Ras Laffan, according to shipping data. The 210,100 cubic metres capacity Q-Flex carrier “Al Ghariya” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on July 15 to the French Fos Cavaou import terminal near the Mediterranean port of Marseilles. The 160,000 cubic metres capacity “Arctic Aurora” will deliver a cargo on July 20 at Turkey’s Aliaga import facility near Izmir. The volumes were lifted from the Hammerfest plant in northern Norway, operated by Statoil.

French energy company Engie has inaugurated and commissioned the first floating LNG import facility in Turkey, located close to the port of Izmir, at a ceremony attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials.