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Oslo-based BW LNG, a unit of Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW, announced the STS transfer in a social media post on Tuesday.
During the operation, which took place on October 8, the 174,000-cbm BW ENN Snow Lotus transferred LNG to the 174,000-cbm FSRU.
According to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue, the LNG carrier, owned by BW and chartered by Chinese independent gas distributor ENN, brought the cargo from the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas.
BW LNG noted that BW Magna is tailormade to Latin America’s biggest power project, serving a long-term 23-year charter moored alongside Porto do Acu in Rio de Janeiro.
Since July 1, 2025, BW Magna has delivered regasified LNG to GNA II.
Together, GNA II and its sister project GNA I generate enough energy to power 14 million homes, BW LNG said.
In June 2020, BW Magna arrived in the Brazilian port to start its contract serving GNA’s project.
After that, UK-based energy firm BP supplied the first-ever cargo to BW’s FSRU in December 2020.
The FSRU-based LNG terminal has a total capacity of 21 million cubic meters per day.
GNA’s LNG-to-power project
GNA is a venture consisting of BP, Germany’s engineer Siemens, China’s SPIC, and Prumo. The Brazilian private company is controlled by US-based EIG Global Energy Partners.
Earlier this year, the JV launched commercial operations at the second plant as part of its LNG-to-power project in the Port of Acu.
In September 2021, GNA commissioned the first 1.3-gigawatt LNG power plant.
Siemens Energy secured a contract to build the second LNG power plant for GNA.
The company announced in November 2021 that the contract was valued at approximately 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion).
Combined, these two power plants have 3 GW of installed capacity, forming the largest gas-to-power project in Latin America.