Eni’s Nguya FLNG ships first LPG cargo

“Eni confirms the first shipment of LPG – approximately 24,000 tonnes – to GasChem Europe from the Nguya FLNG terminal,” the company told LNG Prime in an emailed statement.

Italy’s Eni did not provide further details.

GasChem Services, part of German shipping group Hartmann, said in a socila media post that its 40,000-cbm LPG carrier GasChem Europe completed the first-ever LPG lifting from Nguya FLNG, loaded offshore Pointe-Noire, Congo, via ship-to-ship transfer.

Following the commissioning of Nguya FLNG by Eni earlier this year, GasChem Europe had “the privilege of performing this inaugural LPG export,” it said.

According to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue, the LPG carrier was sailing in the Mozambique Channel, offshore Mozambique, on Wednesday.

The data shows that the vessel is heading to India’s port of Mangalore.

In February this year, Eni’s Nguya FLNG shipped its first LNG cargo, marking the start of exports of the second phase of the Congo LNG project.

Spain received the first LNG shipment.

With Phase 2, the Congo LNG project reaches a total liquefaction capacity of 3 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG, equivalent to 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year, leveraging gas resources from the Nene and Litchendjili fields in the offshore Marine XII license.

Congo LNG Phase 2 features three production platforms as well as the Scarabeo 5 unit dedicated to gas treatment and compression, and the Nguya FLNG for liquefaction and export.

The 380-meter-long 2.4 mtpa Nguya FLNG joined Tango FLNG, the first unit with a capacity of 0.6 mtpa, which began production in December 2023.