Kuwait’s Al-Zour terminal gets milestone LNG cargo

Greece’s DESFA, the terminal’s operation and maintenance contractor, revealed the milestone in a social media post on Wednesday.

KIPIC’s Al Zour LNG terminal achieved the “safe and successful discharge of the 300th vessel, representing an impressive total of 44,265,876 cubic meters of LNG received since the start of the terminal’s operation,” DESFA said.

DESFA did not provide further information.

Back in 2020, the Greek firm owned by a consortium led by Snam secured a contract from Kuwait’s state-owned KIPIC for the LNG import terminal in the Al-Zour area.

The five-year contract includes the operation and maintenance of the LNG import plant.

KIPIC said in a social media report earlier this month that the LNG terminal recently received its 295th cargo onboard the Qatari LNG carrier Lusail since the start of operations.

Qatar is the main supplier to the facility.

In 2021, LNG producer QatarEnegy LNG, previously knows as Qatargas, delivered the first-ever cargo of LNG to help commission the Al-Zour facility.

In August this year, state-owned QatarEnergy and Kuwait Petroleum signed a 15-year sale and purchase deal for the supply of LNG from Qatar to Kuwait.

The new SPA includes the delivery of up to three million tons per annum of LNG to KPC to fuel Kuwait’s power plants.

Also, the contracted LNG volumes will be delivered ex-ship to the Al-Zour LNG terminal onboard QatarEnergy’s vessels, starting in January 2025.

This deal followed a long-term deal the two firms signed back in 2021.

Under that 15-year SPA, QatarEnergy also agreed to supply 3 million tons per year of LNG to the Al-Zour receiving terminal.

The terminal is one of the largest LNG import facilities in the world with an import capacity of 22 mtpa.

It has eight 225,000-cbm LNG storage tanks.

The Al-Zour complex and the LNG import terminal are located some 90 kilometers south of the capital Kuwait City.