Lithuania gets 10th LNG cargo

The largest of the three Baltic nations, Lithuania received another cargo of liquefied natural gas from Statoil’s Hammerfest LNG facility in Norway.

This is the tenth cargo of the chilled fuel Lithuania received from Norway’s Statoil since the beginning of this year.

The 155,000 cubic meters Arctic Aurora docked at Höegh LNG’s FSRU Independence in the port of Klaipeda on Tuesday, Indre Miliniene, spokeswoman at Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of Lithuania’s first LNG terminal told LNG World News.

Lithuania started importing LNG in December 2014 in order to reduce its dependence on Russian pipeline gas supplies.

All previous deliveries to Lithuania’s LNG terminal were strictly for Litgas, a part of state-controlled energy group Lietuvos Energija. However, as of February this year, the imported volumes are split between Litgas, Lietuvos Duju Tiekimas, and Lithuanian fertilizer producer Achema.

The Arctic Aurora brought about 140,000 cubic meters of LNG that will be regasified and delivered to the three terminal users.

According to the data posted on Litgas website, the company will only take 9.800 cubic meters of LNG from the latest cargo with the rest to be split between Achema and LDT.

LNG World News Staff