China to receive first Tortue LNG cargo

Last month, the 2019-built 173,400-cbm, British Sponsor, which is on charter to BP, loaded the first GTA shipment.

According to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue, the LNG carrier was located in the South China Sea on Friday, with a final destination in Guangdong, China.

The Guangdong Dapeng LNG terminal, in which BP has a stake, is located in Guangdong.

Kpler also said in a report on Thursday that British Sponsor was sailing toward Guangdong, carrying the first LNG export from the GTA FLNG project.

“Next in line is the British Achiever, now positioned alongside Gimi to begin loading the second cargo,” Kpler said.

BP operates GTA with a 56 percent working interest alongside Kosmos Energy (27 percent), Petrosen (10 percent), and SMH (7 percent). 

The first phase of the project features Golar LNG’s FLNG Gimi and the Tortue FPSO.

The partners previously signed a sales and purchase agreement under which BP Gas Marketing will offtake 2.45 million tonnes per annum of LNG from the first phase of the GTA project for an initial term of up to 20 years.

US-based Kosmos recently said that the partners were loading the second GTA LNG cargo.

Kosmos said that GTA production in the first quarter averaged approximately 1,300 boepd net (7.8 mmcfd).

The firm noted that all four FLNG trains are now operational and are being tested at about 10 percent above the nameplate capacity.

In addition, Kosmos also said that the partnership has started work on Phase 1+, a low-cost brownfield expansion of the development that is expected to double gas sales through increased LNG production and domestic gas.