The liquefied natural gas carrier "Al Khasamia" from Qatar arrived in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province on Monday after a 16-day, 6,000-nautical-mile voyage. This is the first ship of LNG unloaded by CNOOC Yancheng "Green Energy Port", the largest LNG reserve base in China, marking the start of production of the project.
The SS Al Kasamia, an ultra-large LNG carrier, is loaded with 210 thousand cubic meters of liquefied natural gas and gasification of 130 million cubic meters, which can supply 6.5 million households with domestic gas for one month.
The ship's LNG will be stored in the No. 3 storage tank, the first 220,000 cubic meter LNG storage tank officially put into use in China.
Facing the first unloading, Yancheng "Green Energy Port" conducted more than 20 simulation exercises for ship mooring, unloading arm connection and process unloading.
Yang Yong, Deputy General Manager of China National Offshore Oil & Gas Group
For this unloading, for the first time, we used the largest domestic unloading arm developed and manufactured by ourselves and the control system independently developed by us. The smooth unloading process, verified the reliability of the complete set of equipment.
CNOOC Yancheng "Green Energy Port", located in Binhai Port Industrial Park of Yancheng City, is a key planning project for the construction and interconnection of the national natural gas production, supply, storage and marketing system.
In the first phase of the project, 10 large-scale LNG storage tanks were constructed, including 4 storage tanks of 220,000 cubic meters and 6 storage tanks of 270,000 cubic meters, making it the largest LNG storage base in China with a total tank capacity of 2.5 million cubic meters.
Li Feng, Person in Charge of CNOOC Yancheng "Green Energy Port"
The commissioning of CNOOC's "Green Energy Port" project in Yancheng is of great significance to the diversification of natural gas supply channels in East China, as well as to natural gas reserves for peak regulation and supply, which will effectively promote the clean energy transition in the region. This large-scale and intensive construction method is conducive to the rational utilization of China's coastline resources, and has important demonstration significance for the construction of LNG terminals in the future.
