LNG

July 5 (LNGJ) - Three LNG cargoes are headed for Belgium as deliveries to other European ports start to decline. The LNG carrier “Lusail” with 142,800 cubic metres capacity is scheduled to discharge a shipment from Qatar on July 6 at the Belgian terminal at Zeebrugge. The cargo was lifted on June 17 from Ras Laffan in the Gulf. A second Qatari cargo is due at the Belgian port on July 14 on board the “Simaisma”, a vessel with capacity of 143,000 cubic metres.

   In between the Qatari deliveries will be the arrival on July 12 of the carrier “Vladimir Rusanov” with a trans-shipment from the Yamal export plant in Arctic Russia lifted on July 2 from the port of Sabetta.

Feb 28 (LNGJ) – The Belgian Zeebrugge LNG import terminal is scheduled to receive three Russian trans-shipment cargoes in the next week. The first is due to arrive on March 1 from the Yamal export plant in Arctic Russia onboard the “Vladimir Voronin”, according to shipping data. The ship with 172,000 cubic metres of capacity lifted the cargo from the Russian Sabetta export terminal on February 22.

   The 177,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Eduard Toll” is expected at Zeebrugge with a second cargo on March 2 while the “Vladimir Rusanov” with 172,000 cubic metres capacity will berth on March 5 at the Belgian facility with a third shipment lifted on February 26, data showed.

May 17 (LNGJ) - The LNG carrier “Vladimir Rusanov”, with 172,000 metres capacity, was berthing on May 17 with a cargo to discharge at the Isle of Grain LNG import terminal, operated by National Grid Plc on the Medway-Thames estuary 45 miles southeast of London. The shipment, lifted on May 10 from the Yamal plant in the Arctic region of northern Siberia, is arriving in the UK as the National Balancing Point (NBP) natural gas price rose on May 17 to a record 2021 level of $9.70 per million British thermal units.

July 24 (LNGJ) - Novatek, the Russian natural gas company and operator of the Yamal LNG plant in northern Siberia, said its power and gas subsidiary shipped the first cargo of LNG from the Yamal facility to Japan eastbound via the Northern Sea Route.

   Novatek said the cargo was delivered by the 172,000 cubic metres capacity LNG carrier “Vladimir Rusanov” under a spot contract and unloaded at the Ohgishima import terminal at Tokyo Bay in Japan. “This LNG cargo is the company’s first successful experience of unloading an Arc-7 ice-class LNG tanker at a Japanese port,” said the Russian company.

Shipments of LNG are continuing unabated on a small fleet of Arc-7 ice-class carriers from the Russian Yamal export plant in northern Siberia along the Northern Sea Route to North Asian destinations such as China and Taiwan.

April 27 (LNGJ) - The first May shipments are heading for the UK from Qatar and Russia. The 266,000 cubic metres capacity Q-Max carrier “Shagra” will discharge a cargo on May 1 at the South Hook terminal in Milford Haven from Ras Laffan, while the 172,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Vladimir Rusanov” is scheduled to arrive on May 3 at the Dragon import facility at Milford Haven from Yamal LNG at Sabetta in Arctic Russia.

   The cargoes were heading for the UK even amid more European natural gas price drops. The UK National Balancing Point natural gas price fell again from last week to a low of $1.60 per million British thermal units while Continental Europe’s Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) price was slightly higher than the NBP price at $1.85 per MMBtu, though also lower than last week.

Mitsui OSK Lines, the Japanese shipping company and LNG fleet owner, has held a naming ceremony in South Korea for an ice-breaking LNG carrier to deliver shipments to Asia from the Russian Yamal LNG export plant in Siberia.