Egypt exported its third LNG cargo this year on 10 October – and second in consecutive months – when the New Nature tanker lifted a shipment from the 7.2mn t/y ELNG facility at Idku. The cargo, lifted for the plant’s joint operator Shell, is headed to Ravenna in Italy, according to Kpler. It follows a cargo lifted in September for French major TotalEnergies that was supplied to Spain and an April cargo sent to Taiwan (MEES, 26 September).
While LNG exports are not unusual in Egypt during the milder Autumnal months, the two recent cargoes were lifted despite LNG imports continuing at record rates (MEES, 3 October). October saw the arrival of a fourth floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in Egyptian waters, with the Energos Winter moored at Damietta on the Mediterranean coast unlike the other three vessels which are located at Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea. (CONTINUED - 284 WORDS)