LNG news in Europe

Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group have entered into an agreement to acquire Cryotec Anlagenbau GmbH for an undisclosed amount.

As many as 58 LNG cargoes were received by the ORLEN Group at the President Lech Kaczynski Terminal in 2022, hitting a new record since the terminal started its commercial operation.

The FSRU Exemplar, which is chartered to Gasgrid for a period of 10 years, will provide flexible, reliable, and secure delivery of regasified LNG to Finland and other Baltic countries.

Uniper has brought Germany’s first full cargo of LNG to the new LNG terminal, operated by Uniper, in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

The Snøhvit partners will invest NOK 13.2 billion in upgrading the Hammerfest LNG plant (HLNG) at Melkøya, Norway.

Panos Mitrou and Anna Apostolopoulou, Lloyd’s Register, argue that ship supply constraints could prove a major obstacle to the LNG sector’s development later this decade.

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd has signed a binding 10-year time charter contract with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action for the Höegh Esperanza.

AB Klaipedos nafta and AB Amber Grid are looking to evaluate possibilities to expand the current Klaipeda LNG terminal regasification capacity, as well the capacity of a gas transmission system.

Fluxys LNG has decided to offer additional slots to unload, store and regasify LNG cargoes at the Zeebrugge LNG Terminal in 2023.

GTT has received its first order for the tank design of two LNG carriers from its new partner, Yangzijiang, on behalf of a European ship owner.