Cnooc's Tianjin Terminal Receives First Fully-Loaded Q-Flex Vessel
Cnooc Gas and Power’s Tianjin LNG terminal January 23 received a fully loaded Q-Flex vessel from Ras Laffan, Qatar for the first time, the company said January 28.
The vessel carried 91,000 metric tons (mt) of LNG, and according to Cnooc Gas and Power, the arrival of Q-Flex type vessel “indicates that the loading and unloading capacity of the Tianjin receiving station has reached a new level.”
Since January 1, the terminal has processed increasing volumes of LNG owing to strong gas demand in north China. The terminal, located in Tianjin prefecture in northeastern China, processed 28,700 mt of LNG January 9, setting a new daily record.
Cnooc Gas and Power, a subsidiary of state-owned Cnooc, is also building additional tanks at Tianjin. It will build six 220,000 m3 LNG storage tanks, 12 gasifiers, 12 high-pressure pumps and three low-temperature compressors and ancillary facilities, the company said in May. The project will be partially operational in 2021 and will be fully ready in 2022. Tianjin terminal is expected to have 7.25mn mt/yr LNG processing capacity by 2030, up for 3.21mn mt/yr in 2018.