UAE’s Adnoc L&S, a unit of state-owned energy giant Adnoc, has taken delivery of the sixth and final 175,000-cbm LNG carrier from China’s Jiangnan Shipyard.
Jiangnan announced in a statement on Monday that the LNG carrier Al Taweelah was delivered seven months ahead of the contracted schedule.
Al Taweelah is the last of six LNG carriers Adnoc L&S ordered during 2022 from Jiangnan.
The entire order is worth more than $1.2 billion.
In November 2024, Adnoc L&S welcomed the first LNG carrier in this batch, Al Shelila, while the fifth vessel, Arada, joined the fleet in last month.
These “LNG Jumbo” dual-fuel carriers feature GTT’s Mark III Flex membrane system, WinGD engines, and a partial reliquefaction system.
LNG expansion
Adnoc is investing heavily in its LNG business.
In June 2024, it made the final investment decision to build its LNG export terminal in Al Ruwais.
The LNG project consists of two 4.8 mtpa trains with a total capacity of 9.6 mtpa, more than doubling Adnoc’s existing UAE LNG production capacity to around 15 mtpa, as the company builds its international LNG portfolio.
Adnoc currently owns a 70 percent stake in Adnoc LNG, which produces about 6 mtpa of LNG from its facilities on Das Island.
However, the facility’s operations have been affected by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The company’s unit, Adnoc Gas, announced last month that it made “temporary adjustments” to its LNG production in response to ongoing shipping disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
Several repots, citing shipping data, said on Tuesday that the 1996-built 137,000-cbm Mubaraz, owned by Adnoc L&S, could be the first laden LNG carrier to transit the Strait since the start of the Middle East conflict on February 28.
LNG Prime could not verify this by the the time this article was published.
According to its AIS data provided by VesseleValue, the steam LNG carier loaded a cargo at the Das Island plant last month and was on Tuseday sailing in the Laccadive Sea, situated along the southwestern coast of India.