Cnooc's Tianjin Terminal Prepares for Winter Season
Cnooc Gas and Power’s Tianjin LNG receiving terminal is expected to supply 1.4bn m3 of regasified LNG via pipeline and 1.6bn m3 of LNG via tanker trucks to downstream customers in northern China during the winter season that runs from November to March, the company said November 25.
Last year, 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.
Cnooc Gas and Power, a subsidiary of state-owned Cnooc, is 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 last year. 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 operates nine LNG import terminals at Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo, Putian, Yuedong, Dapeng, Zhuhai, Hainan and Shenzhen – most of which are part-owned by others.