As Bahrain enters the final weeks of the sweltering summer season, the island kingdom is wrapping up its first ever summer of LNG imports. Five years after commissioning its $1bn LNG import terminal at the end of 2019, Manama has joined neighbors Kuwait (MEES, 22 August) and Dubai as an importer of the fuel (MEES, 13 June).
A total of six cargoes amounting to 440,000 tons have so far been discharged at the island’s import terminal since May. The Bahrain LNG import terminal has regassification capacity of 800mn cfd (5.9mn t/y) and send-out capacity of up to 500mn cfd, leaving Bahrain with plenty of scope to increase imports should it be required (MEES, 25 April). (CONTINUED - 746 WORDS)
