Egypt has received the eleventh shipment of liquefied gas that arrived at the port of Ain Sokhna to provide its gas needs for domestic consumption.
The new shipment arrived via the LNG BONNY 2 tanker carrying the flag of the islands of “Bermuda”, which was contracted within 21 shipments to provide the fuel needs of power plants to ensure the suspension of the load mitigation plan until the end of the summer.
The new cargo landed at Sokhna port and was unloaded on the liquefied gasification vessel “hog galleon” on Tuesday evening to be gasified and re-pumped to the country’s national gas network.
The tanker’s cargo is approximately 155 thousand cubic meters of gas and will be directed—after gasification—to power plants and energy-intensive factories as Egypt receives the contracted shipments either inside Sumid port in Ain Sokhna or the re-gasification vessel located in Aqaba port.
The total shipments that have been contracted so far are 26 shipments, which represent 21 shipments contracted by Egypt at the beginning of last July, in addition to 5 shipments contracted through a tender offered by the Ministry of Petroleum at the end of last July to ensure the stability of fuel supplies to power plants until the end of next September.
The new shipments received will be directed entirely to the domestic market and not to export part of them to foreign markets, as the priority is currently for power plants, fertilizer, and petrochemical plants.
The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum is considering adding a floating unit for storage and change in Ain Sokhna with the possibility of using the existing liquefaction facilities in the Damietta and Edko areas in a reverse way.