Lithuanian LNG terminal conducts first reload operation

Lithuania's liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal started on Monday its first commercial reload of LNG from floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to small-scale LNG tankers.

On Monday morning, LNG tanker Coral Energy moored to the FSRU vessel Independence at Lithuanian LNG terminal in the port of Klaipeda, Western Lithuania.

Coral Energy is the first tanker to be filled with LNG from Lithuania's LNG terminal's FSRU vessel.

Coral Energy is to be loaded with around 15,000 cubic meters of LNG, an equivalent of 10 million cubic meters of natural gas. The tanker will then transport the LNG cargo to one of the LNG terminals in the Baltic Sea.

Reloading LNG to small-scale LNG tankers is a new activity in Lithuania and in the Baltics. Currently, the terminal in Klaipeda is the only in the Baltic Sea that is capable of reloading LNG to small-scale LNG tankers.

Lithuania's LNG terminal and its FSRU vessel Independence started commercial operations two years ago.

The small Baltic state built itself the terminal pursuing its efforts to diversify natural gas supplies and lower dependency on Gazprom, previously the country's sole supplier of natural gas.

Norway's energy company Statoil is the supplier of LNG to the Lithuanian terminal. Endit