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3rd cargo of US LNG on its way to Lithuania's Klaipeda

BC, Vilnius, 23.12.2019.Print version
A new LNG cargo from the United States, a 3rd in the five years of operation of the LNG terminal in Klaipeda, is on its way to Lithuania. Sources have told BNS the cargo is meant for the Jonava-based fertilizer producer Achema, informed LETA/BNS.

"Arriving to Klaipeda for the first time, the Maran Gas Apollonia is brining 155,000 cubic meters of LNG from a LNG facility in Texas, US (the port of Corpus Christi)," Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of the LNG terminal in Lithuania, told.


The vessel is scheduled to dock at the FSRU Independence on Dec 26.

US energy company Cheniere Energy's subsidiary Corpus Christi Liquefaction has an export terminal in the port of Corpus Christi.


The past LNG cargo from the United States arrived in Lithuania in September, 2017 when Spain's Gas Natural Fenosa delivered it from the Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana, operated by Cheniere Energy, to the then Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas (now Ignitis).


The first cargo of LNG from the US came in August, 2017 when Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas court it from Cheniere Energy's subsidiary Cheniere Marketing International. It also came from the Sabine Pass terminal.


LNG mostly comes from the Norwegian port of Melkoya, where Equinor has a LNG production facility, with six large LNG bunker vessels having arrived in Klaipeda since October, brining 138,000 cubic meters of LNG each.


Small vessels (6,500-9,500 cubic meters) also deliver LNG from Russian gas company Novatek, with 12 such vessels having arrived since October.






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