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Higas announced the milestone shipment in a statement on Tuesday.
The LNG terminal operator did not provide further details.
According to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue, Avenir LNG’s 7,500-cbm bunkering and supply vessel Avenir Advantage delivered the shipment from Spain.
Avenir Advantage was heading to Cartagena on Wednesday.
Uk-based Avenir LNG said in October 2024 that it plans to divest its ownership of the Higas LNG storage terminal in Sardinia to three of its existing shareholders, including Stolt-Nielsen and Golar LNG, as part of a strategic refocus of its business.
Avenir, which is now fully owned by Norway’s Stolt-Nielsen, became the sole owner of the Higas terminal in 2022 after it bought a 10 percent stake in the terminal from Italian engineering firm Heat and a 10 percent stake from CPL Concordia.
Gas and Heat was also the EPC contractor for the Higas storage, regasification, and distribution facility at the port of Oristano, which received its first shipment from the 7,500-cbm Avenir Accolade in May 2021.
In January 2022, Avenir’s 7,500-cbm bunkering and supply vessel, Avenir Aspiration, started serving the terminal in Sardinia.
The facility features six horizontal low-pressure cryogenic type C tank storage tanks with a total capacity of 10,800 cbm.
However, the facility could be expanded to accommodate a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in the future.
In October 2025, Italian LNG terminal operator Snam signed an agreement for the potential acquisition of the Higas small-scale LNG terminal.
Snam plans to install an FSRU at the facility in cooperation with Norvay’s Hoegh Evi.
