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DTEK’s unit D.Trading received the shipment at the Revithoussa facility onboard the 2010-built 155,000-cbm, GasLog Savannah, on December 27.
According to a statement by DTEK, the cargo of about 100 million cubic meters of gas, or 1 TWh of energy, arrived from Louisiana.
“Working with Greek and other partners, LNG will now be regasified and exchanged through European Union and Ukrainian gas networks,” DTEK said.
DTEK said the shipment is part of broader efforts to enhance Ukraine and Europe’s energy security by reducing reliance on Russian supplied gas.
The LNG cargo comes just days before Ukraine ends an arrangement transporting Russian gas to the European Union via its territory, DTEK noted.
GasLog Savannah’s AIS data shows that the LNG carrier brought the cargo from Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass facility in Cameron, Louisiana.
Earlier this year, Venture Global signed a heads of agreement with D.Trading to supply LNG to Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
The two firms agreed that D.Trading will buy cargoes from Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG facility, which just shipped its first cargo to Germany, beginning later this year through the end of 2026 to support near to medium-term energy security needs for Ukraine and the broader Eastern European region.
In addition, the deal provides that D.Trading will purchase up to 2 mtpa of LNG from Venture Global’s third facility, CP2 LNG, for 20 years.
Ukraine does not have LNG import terminals.
D.Trading said it is bringing in this first cargo via Greece due to war-related restrictions on LNG transits into the Black Sea and Ukraine directly.
Instead, it will use regasification terminals like Revithoussa together with cross-border pipelines such as the vertical corridor initiative, which transmits gas between Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
D.Trading said it expects Friday’s LNG shipment to be “the first of a number of such shipments from the US, and is looking to expand its LNG activities into northern Europe and the Baltics.”