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Botas announced the milestone STS transfer in a social media post on Thursday.
However, the firm did not provide further details.
A video posted by Botas shows the 173,400-cbm Global Sea Spirit, owned by a joint venture of Nakilat and Maran Gas, at the FSRU.
VesselsValue data shows that the LNG carrier was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday after delivering a cargo to the FSRU from Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG plant in the US.
It appears that Global Sea Spirit is on a short-term charter to German gas importer SEFE.
Botas recently signed 10-year deals to buy LNG from Italian energy firm Eni and SEFE.
The company agreed to buy from SEFE a total of 6 billion cubic meters of LNG over 10 winter periods starting in 2028.
Turkiye’s Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced the signing of the sales and purchase deals during the recent World LNG Summit & Awards in Istanbul.
Bayraktar noted at the conference that Turkiye has increased its LNG regasification capacity fivefold since 2016, reaching 161 million cubic meters per day, as part of its plans to boost energy security, while the country is also working to become an LNG supply hub.
He said that Turkiye signed LNG supply agreements for 106 billion cubic meters this year, including these new deals.
