Golden Pass LNG to ship second export cargo

According to AIS data from VeselsValue, the 174,000-cbm HL Sea Eagle, owned by H-Line Shipping and chartered by ExxonMobil, was located at the facility on Thursday morning.

The LNG carrier is expected to load the second cargo and depart the facility in the coming days.

LNG Prime invited Golden Pass LNG to comment on the second export shipment.

Last month, the JV shipped the first export cargo on board the 174,000-cbm LNG carrier Al Qaiyyah, chartered by QatarEnergy.

Al Qaiyyah was on Thursday morning anchored at a location offshore the Fluxys-operated Zeebruge LNG terminal in Belgium, its AIS data shows.

The vessel is expected to deliver the shipment to the LNG import facility on Friday, port data shows.

QatarEnergy has previously booked long-term regasification capacity at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal.

The Golden Pass LNG export terminal is the 10th such facility in the US.

It has three liquefaction trains with a total capacity of 18.1 million tons per year, five 155,000 cbm LNG storage tanks, and two marine berths to accommodate the world’s largest LNG carriers.

State-owned QatarEnergy, whose LNG and other facilities in Ras Laffan were attacked last in March, owns a 70 percent stake in the Golden Pass project and will offtake 70 percent of the capacity, while US energy firm ExxonMobil has a 30 percent share.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods recently said that the company expects the second liquefaction train at the Golden Pass LNG export terminal to be mechanically complete by the end of this year.

“Train 2 we expect to be mechanically complete by the end of this year, and Train 3 should be mechanically complete as we head into the second quarter of next year,” Woods said.