China’s Huizhou LNG terminal gets commissioning cargo

The 145,700-cbm Maran Gas Coronis, owned by Maran Gas and Nakilat, has delivered 64,000 tons of LNG from the UAE to the LNG import terminal on August 30, Guangdong Energy said in a statement.

Guangdong Energy said the vessel is expected to stay at the Huizhou LNG receiving terminal for seven days.

The utility will use these LNG supplies for commissioning of the facility, including cooling down the storage tanks.

Guangdong Energy announced the construction start of the LNG import project worth about $1 billion in July 2021.

Germany-based TGE Gas Engineering, a unit of China’s CIMC, said in January this year that three 200,000-cbm Huizhou LNG tanks have reached mechanical completion.

The first phase includes the three LNG tanks and related facilities for connecting, unloading, gasification and export, and one LNG jetty with a capacity of up to 266,000 cbm.

The project has a capacity of 4 mtpa, according to Guangdong Energy.

This is Guangdong Energy’s first wholly-owned LNG terminal.

The utility also has stakes in the Yangjiang LNG peak shaving storage project and in CNOOC’s Zhuhai LNG terminal in Guangdong.

Chinese companies are heavily investing in LNG terminals.

The country is the world’s largest importer of LNG.

During January-July this year, China imported 43.83 million tonnes of LNG, a rise of 11.9 percent year-on-year, according to customs data.