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Peru LNG sends three
cargoes to UK in August
TERMINALS PERU LNG, the operator of a natural gas liq- delivered its load to the Dragon LNG termi-
uefaction plant and export terminal in Pampa nal. A second vessel – the Barcelona Knutsen,
Melchorita, resumed exports in August follow- a 173,400-cubic metre tanker that left port on
ing a planned shutdown for maintenance in July. August 2 – was expected to arrive at Dragon
According to Peru’s national oil company LNG on September 11. The third vessel – the
(NOC) Perupetro, the Peru LNG consortium Methane Mickie Harper, a 173,000-cubic metre
loaded a total of 174,497 tonnes of LNG in the tanker that left port on August 13 – was report-
month of August. This represented a fall of edly still at sea as of press time.
around 47.9% on the figure reported for June, the The Peru LNG consortium has loaded and
last month before the shutdown, when the group delivered a total of 681 cargoes of LNG since its
loaded five vessels with 335,203 tonnes of LNG. launch in June 2010.
It is, however, higher than the August 2021 The group operates a complex that includes
figure of zero. Peru LNG did not process any gas a 4.45mn tonne per year (tpy) gas liquefaction
in that month, as it spent much of the interval plant built by Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CBI)
between May and September last year offline due and a marine terminal constructed by a consor-
to technical problems. tium known as CDB. (This group includes Ita-
In any event, the Peru LNG plant appears to ly’s Saipem, Luxemburg’s Jan de Nul and Brazil’s
have received less gas than expected last month Odebrecht.)
because Peru’s Energy and Mines Ministry The complex also incorporates a storage
issued an emergency order on August 11 that depot with two 130,000-cubic metre tanks and a
called for making domestic gas supplies a higher 34-inch (860-mm) natural gas pipeline. This pipe
priority than LNG exports, LNG Prime reported. handles gas from fields in the Cusco region that
The ministry took this step after Pluspetrol are being developed by YPF, the NOC of Argen-
(Argentina) took its gas-processing facility in tina, and Repsol of Spain. The link runs for 408
Las Malvinas offline for repairs, it said. This shut- km from Chiquintirca, a town in the Ayacucho
down, which lasted from August 11 to August 24, region, to the LNG plant.
reduced the volume of feedstock flowing to Peru Peru LNG was established by US-based Hunt
LNG, it explained. Oil along with three other companies. Equity in
Meanwhile, shipping data show that all three the project is split between Hunt Oil, with 50%;
cargoes dispatched in August 2022 were destined SK Energy (South Korea), 20%; Shell (UK),
for the UK. One of the vessels – the LNGShips 20%, and Marubeni (Japan), 10%. The partners
Athena, a 174,000-cubic metre tanker that left spent $3.8bn to build the Pampa Melchorita
Pampa Melchorita on August 9 – has already complex.
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