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being responsive to the needs of our business partners,” said Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero. “Allying with groups like SEA-LNG is part of being ready for the market’s growing demand for LNG fuel.
It also meshes with our strategic goals to strengthen competitiveness while improving environmental sustainability.”
SEA-LNG, May 05, 2020
EUROPE
MET books capacities in Croatian LNG terminal
On April 22, 2020, MET Croatia Energy Trade submitted a binding offer to LNG Croatia
to book capacities in the Krk LNG terminal for a three-year period, amounting to 1.3bn cubic meters overall as earlier reported by the terminal.
MET Croatia has been present in Croatia since 2013 and is one of the leading gas suppliers on the domestic market. MET Croatia is a member of MET Group, a European energy company headquartered
in Zug, Switzerland. The group employs 1,700 people in 15 countries, operates in 26 gas markets and is active in 22 international trading hubs. MET Group has been operating for 13 years and is the leading independent integrated energy company in the CEE region and other European markets including Spain and Italy.
Significant changes on the international energy markets are spearheaded by the rapid growth of global LNG trade, a development that MET Group welcomes. The Croatian LNG project will help Central and Eastern Europe to become an integral part of this global market. Furthermore, Croatian LNG imports will help MET Group link most of its downstream markets both from pipeline gas and from an LNG perspective as well.
MET International, the supply and trading arm of MET Group opened and has been successfully operating its LNG desk since 2016, delivering LNG cargos primarily into its natural gas supply markets in Spain and Italy. The LNG terminal in Krk represents a new supply point for the CEE region, bringing with it greater source diversification opportunities and, as a consequence, greater security of supply.
“MET Group is actively monitoring the global growth for liquefied natural gas and increasing the volume of LNG delivered day by day. To succeed on the LNG market, apart from the specific knowledge with a global LNG desk,
it is necessary to have a local presence, i.e.
a market access for gas placement. We are
the only player in the region that has both. Therefore, we have no doubt that booking the capacity in the LNG terminal in Krk will highly contribute to our long-term business strategy,” said Mario Matkovi?, CEO of MET Croatia Energy Trade.
MET CROATIA ENERGY TRADE, May 04, 2020
Gasum’s subsidiary
Nauticor conducts first
ship-to-ship LNG bunkering
operation for a product
tanker in Germany
On May 6, Hamburg based LNG supplier Nauticor, a subsidiary of the Nordic energy company Gasum, has conducted the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation for a product tanker in Germany. The bunkering operation for the product tanker “Ramelia” was conducted in the port of Brunsbüttel at the river Elbe. The operation also marked another milestone with it being the first bunkering operation since the company became a part of Gasum at April 30, 2020. The receiving vessel “Ramelia” is owned
by Donsö based shipowner Älvtank and is managed by the tanker pool of the Gothia Tanker Alliance. Like several LNG bunkering operations before, the operation was conducted under the LNG supply agreement, which was signed by Furetank Rederi, a member of the Gothia Tanker Alliance, and
Nauticor in 2018.
“By using LNG as fuel we are working on reducing the environmental impact through lower emissions and less noise. Having access to a comprehensive LNG supply network is
a prerequisite to do so and we are glad that thanks to the efforts of Nauticor and Gasum the availability of LNG is secured in a growing number of place in Northwest Europe,” says Christian Nilsson, Managing Director of Älvtank.
Together with the Linde AG’s LNG and biogas business in Scandinavia, the marine bunkering business of Nauticor has been acquired by Gasum on April 30, 2020. NAUTICOR, May 06, 2020
Equinor to shut Hammerfest
LNG for two-week
maintenance work
Norway’s Equinor has said it will shut its Hammerfest LNG facility, which liquefies gas from the company’s Snoehvit field in the Arctic, for two weeks of maintenance in the second half of May.
The shutdown of the plant will reduce production by 18mn cubic metres per day. Equinor said the maintenance was previously planned, but it will nonetheless be welcome when global LNG demand is depressed as
a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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