RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has shipped its first LNG cargo to the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) Toscana, located in Italy
FSRU Toscana is one of Italy’s main regasification projects, and is located 22km off the Italian coast between Livorno and Pisa.
The receiver of the cargo is a new customer for RasGas, Switzerland-based DufEnergy Trading SA (DufEnergy), an international, multi-energy trading company which entered the LNG market in late 2012.
This shipment – to a new customer at a new terminal – underlines RasGas’ positive growth path, and continues the company’s outstanding performance even in a period of low energy prices, the company maintains.
“RasGas looks forward to continuing our support of DufEnergy in meeting the growing demand in Italy – and throughout Europe – for cleaner energy in the form of LNG. The arrival of our LNG cargo at FSRU Toscana represents another positive development in RasGas' global operations,” said Khalid Sultan R. Al Kuwari, RasGas’ chief marketing & shipping officer.
“Receiving this cargo at the FSRU Toscana regasification terminal is an important milestone, as LNG is a key source of supply to the Italian natural gas market,” said Jean-Christian Heintz, head of LNG at DufEnergy.
With operations facilities based in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, RasGas’ principal activities are to extract, process, liquefy, store and export LNG and its derivatives from Qatar’s North Field. RasGas, on behalf of the project owners, exports to countries across Asia, Europe and the Americas with a total LNG production capacity of approximately 37mn tonnes per annum, and an integrated shipping fleet consisting of 27 long-term chartered LNG vessels.
