Egypt’s Damietta FSRU gets first LNG cargo

The 174,000-cbm Hellas Diana, owned by Latsco and chartered by Trafigura, delivered the shipment to the FSRU from the US last week, data by VesselsValue and Kpler shows.

The shipment of some 67,722 tonnes came from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana.

Kpler said the LNG carrier had been waiting offshore since late September due to “interface work delays of the Energos Winter.”

The Global Sea Spirit tanker is expected to discharge next as it is seen idling near Damietta, it said.

In July, Egypt’s EGAS signed a five-year charter deal with US LNG player New Fortress Energy to deploy Energos Winter at Damietta.

The FSRU is located at the Damietta LNG export plant, owned by Eni, EGAS, and EGPC.

This is NFE’s second FSRU stationed in Egypt.

NFE previously said that Energos Winter will join Energos Eskimo in Egypt as early as August of this year.

In June, the 160,000-cbm FSRU Energos Eskimo arrived in Egypt from Jordan, as the country seeks to meet its growing demand for natural gas.

Energos Infrastructure, a part of US asset manager Apollo, owns both of these FSRUs.

The Damietta FSRU is located on the Mediterranean coast, unlike the other three vessels which are located at Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea.

Egypt’s LNG exports

Despite LNG imports, Egypt continues to export LNG.

Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources recently announced that one LNG export shipment departed to Italy from the Shell-operated Idku plant.

The vessel New Nature, operated by Shell International, is carrying a cargo of 155,000 cubic meters of LNG to Italy, the ministry said.

Its AIS data shows that it is expected to arrive at Snam’s Ravenna FSRU-based facility later this week.