Adriatic LNG Marks Record Sendout
Adriatic LNG offshore northeast Italy said March 2 it set a new daily sendout record the previous day.
It said the terminal on March 1 delivered 27.5mn m3 into the Italian national network operated by Snam, thus setting a new record since the terminal started up in 2009. The terminal mainly handles Qatari LNG, imported by EDF's Italian subsidiary Edison. That followed a sendout of 20.8mn m3 the previous day, February 28.
Adriatic LNG said it recently resumed service after "difficulties experienced in recent days in the unloading of LNG due to adverse weather and marine conditions." It said the record 27.5mn m3 sendout on March 1 represented 120% of its nominal daily sendout capacity. It added that it plans to send out 27mn m3 March 2.
In its almost decade-long service, the facility has delivered into the Snam network more 48bn m3, and handled LNG imports from seven countries: Qatar, Egypt, Trinidad, Equatorial Guinea, Norway, Nigeria and the US. Adriatic LNG is jointly-owned by ExxonMobil, Qatar Petroleum and Snam.
An LNG carrier berthed in snowy conditions this year at the Adriatic LNG terminal (Credit for this and the banner photo: Adriatic LNG)