Cnooc's Tianjin Terminal Focuses on LNG Trucking
Cnooc Gas and Power’s Tianjin LNG has supplied over 2 million metric tons of LNG by trucks during January 1-November 25 period, it said November 27.
Recently, Cnooc Gas and Power completed the project to expand the truck loading capacity of Tianjin LNG receiving terminal located in the northern Chinese prefecture of Tianjin. The terminal’s loading capacity increased from 400 trucks/day to 600 trucks/day which will help in increasing supply of gas to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Eleven loading stations were added to the existing 20, the company said in October.
Since the start of operations in 2013, Tianjin terminal has loaded 199,204 trucks and supplied more than 4mn mt of LNG to northern China, the company said.
Cnooc Gas and Power, a unit of state-owned Cnooc, is also building additional tanks at Tianjin. It will build six 220,000 m3 LNG storage tanks, 12 gasifiers, 12 high-pressure pumps and three low-temperature compressors and ancillary facilities, the company said in May. The work is expected to commence by year-end. The project will be partially operational in 2021 and will be fully ready in 2022. Tianjin terminal is expected to have 7.25mn mt/yr LNG processing capacity by 2030, up for 3.21mn mt/yr in 2018.
The company believes in the coming years, gas demand in northern China will rise significantly and existing capacity of Tianjin LNG terminal is not sufficient to meet the demand of the region.