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According to the shipment data by state-owned Perupetro, during November, the 4.4 mtpa LNG plant sent two shipments each to Canada and the Netherlands and one shipment each to China and South Korea.
The shipments loaded onboard the LNG carriers Kool Baltic, Barcelona Knutsen, Shandong Juniper, Megara, Maran Gas Ulysses, and New Green equal about 373,456 tonnes, the data shows.
These six LNG cargoes loaded at the Peru LNG plant last month compare to four LNG cargoes in November 2023, while Peru LNG shipped four LNG cargoes in October, six cargoes in September, four LNG cargoes in August, and four LNG cargoes in July this year.
The data previously showed that the Peru LNG plant sent seven LNG cargoes in a row to the Dutch Gate LNG import terminal in the port of Rotterdam from the end of May until mid-July.
LNG giant Shell holds 20 percent in Peru LNG and offtakes all the volumes.
US-based Hunt operates the LNG plant with a 35 percent stake, while Japan’s Marubeni has 10 percent in the LNG terminal operator.
MidOcean Energy, the LNG unit of US-based energy investor EIG, recently completed the previously announced deal to buy an additional 15 percent interest in Peru LNG from Hunt Oil.
MidOcean’s interest in Peru LNG now stands at 35 percent.
Earlier this year, MidOcean completed its purchase of a 20 percent stake in Peru LNG from a unit of South Korean conglomerate SK.
Bedies liquefaction facilities, Peru LNG’s assets consist of a fully-owned 408-kilometer pipeline with 1,290 mmcf/d capacity, two 130,000-cbm storage tanks, a fully-owned 1.4-kilometer marine terminal, and a truck loading facility with a capacity of up to 19.2 mmcf/d.
57 cargoes
Peru LNG expects to load 57 liquefied natural gas cargoes at its Pampa Melchorita LNG plant in 2024, a spokesman for operator Hunt Oil told LNG Prime last month.
The company revised its previous target for 2024 by three cargoes as it said in January that it expects to load 60 cargoes this year.
The spokesman said at the time that the LNG plant had loaded 45 LNG cargoes in 2024.
Since then at least six more cargoes have been loaded.
This includes one cargo in December loaded onboard Maran Gas Amphipolis, the Perupetro data shows.
Last year, Peru LNG loaded 55 vessels.
In 2022, 51 vessels berthed to load LNG at the plant, 38 vessels in 2021, 55 vessels in 2020, 58 vessels in 2019, 57 vessels in 2018, 64 vessels in 2017, 70 vessels in 2016, 56 vessels in 2015, 60 vessels in 2014, 57 vessels in 2013, 53 vessels in 2012, 55 vessels in 2011, and 23 vessels in 2011 when operations began.