China's Oldest Terminal Passes Milestone
Cnooc Gas and Power’s Guangdong Dapeng LNG terminal has unloaded over 70mn metric tons of LNG and supplied over 100bn m3 of regasified LNG to downstream customers since the start of operations 13 years ago, Cnooc Gas and Power said November 7 in a statement.
The first LNG import terminal to be built in China, Guangdong Dapeng terminal started with an initial capacity of 3.7mn mt/yr. Its present capacity is 7.7mn mt/yr. The terminal supplies gas to cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Huizhou, Dongguan, Foshan and Hong Kong through a 441 km pipeline.
Regasified LNG supplied by the terminal accounts for approximately 60% of the total supply of natural gas in Guangdong province and approximately 37% in Hong Kong, Cnooc Gas and Power, a unit of state-run Cnooc, said.
The terminal is located in Shenzhen at Chengtoujiao, Dapeng Bay, Guangdong province and receives LNG from Australia and Qatar. Cnooc with 33% interest is the biggest shareholder in Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company, which operates the terminal. BP has the second-largest stake at 30%.
Cnooc Gas and Power now operates nine LNG import terminals at Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo, Putian, Yuedong, Dapeng, Zhuhai, Hainan and Shenzhen.