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| Malta took delivery of its first LNG cargoes last week |
Galician firm Reganosa is to maintain and operate Malta’s Delimara LNG regasification plant, which will start commercial operations within weeks, under an agreement with ElectroGas Malta (EGM).
Last week, the first LNG cargoes arrived in Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta to be stored in a floating storage unit (FSU) for delivery to the nearby Delimara gas plant. FSU Armada LNG Mediterran aarrived in Malta last autumn.
Bumi Armada converted Mitsui OSK’s 1985-built, 125,000m³ LNG carrier Wakabu Maru into an FSU to supply LNG to the new 215MW combined-cycle gas plant at Delimara. There have been conflicting reports over when the power station will open. A Reganosa spokeswoman told LNG World Shipping that this will happen “within weeks”.
