Offshore staff
Doha - Qatar — Qatargas Operating Co. Ltd. has delivered an LNG cargo aboard a Q-Flex vessel to China's Beihai LNG Terminal, the first call by a Qatargas-chartered vessel at this terminal.
The Q-Flex vessel, Al Sahla, is the largest LNG carrier to call at the terminal since the start of its operations in 2016.
Al Sahla was loaded with 205,000 cu. m of LNG on Sept. 14 at Ras Laffan Port and called at Beihai LNG Terminal in the Tieshan Port Industrial Zone in Beihai Zhuang Autonomous region in the Guangxi Province of China on Oct. 5. It became the largest LNG carrier to call the terminal, which has capacity to also accommodate the even larger Q-Max LNG vessels carrying up to 266,000 cu. m.
The cargo was delivered to China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), which is the largest oil and petrochemical products supplier and the second largest oil and gas producer in China. It is the largest refining company and the third largest chemical company in the world, Qatargas said.
The terminal, which has nominal capacity of 3 million tonnes of LNG per annum (mtpa), comprises four storage tanks each, with an overall capacity of 640,000 cu. m.
Qatargas, in collaboration with Sinopec and PipeChina Beihai LNG Terminal, has cleared vessels up to size of Q-Max (266,000 cu. m). This facilitates a customer to receive larger volumes along with additional flexibility to wider range of LNG receiving terminals, Qatargas added.
Since the first LNG delivery in September 2009 to date, Qatar has supplied China with more than 85 million tonnes of LNG. China is a key and strategic energy partner for the state of Qatar throughout the entire energy value chain. It is also a main driver of the growth in the global LNG market as the government adopts increasingly progressive environmental policies, Qatargas said.
10.20.2022
