Portugal awaits first LNG cargo for 2019

REN’s Sines LNG import terminal on Portugal’s Atlantic coast is scheduled to receive its first cargo of liquefied natural gas in January. 

According to the Port of Sines data, the 141,000-cbm carrier LNG Cross River departed Nigeria LNG facility on Bonny Island and is set to dock at the terminal on January 4.

The vessel transporting the cargo was built in 2005 by the South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries.

NLNG’s Bonny Island facility has the capacity to produce 22 mtpa of liquefied natural gas from its six trains.

The Sines LNG terminal located on Portugal’s Atlantic coast in the industrial area of Sines port has a nominal sendout capacity of 600,000 cubic meters per hour (5.26 bcm per year), with a peak capacity of 900,000 cubic meters per hour.

LNG World News Staff