China’s CNOOC delivers its first LNG cargo to Senegal

CNOOC’s gas and power unit announced its first delivery of LNG to the West African nation in a statement on Tuesday.

This delivery represents a new breakthrough in CNOOC’s global trade strategy, CNOOC Gas and Power said.

The firm did not provide further details.

The image below, published by CNOOC Gas and Power, shows the 174,000-vbm Flex Viglant at the 125,000-cbm FSRU Karmol LNGT Powership Africa, owned by the joint venture consisting of Turkiye’s Karpowership and Japan’s MOl.

Flex Viglant’s AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows that the vessel delivered a partial US LNG cargo to the FSRU in Senegal in December.

After this, the LNG carrier headed to DESFA’s Revithoussa terminal in Greece.

In 2021, KARMOL’s FSRU arrived in Dakar to start serving the country’s first LNG-to-power project, following the completion of conversion works in Singapore.

However, Karpowership announced in July last year that the FSRU received its first LNG cargo from the US.

The FSRU supplies regasified LNG to Karpowership’s 235 MW Karadeniz Powership Aysegul Sultan located alongside the shores of Dakar.

In 2019, Senegal’s power utility Senelec signed an LNG-to-power contract with Karpowership.

The African country has ambitions to shift primarily to natural gas for its power production in order to slash emissions and costs.