Azerbaijan foreign minister, SOCAR vice-president for Malta visit - MALTA TODAY

17 April 2017, 8:31am

The foreign minister of Azerbaijan will lead a delegation in a visit to the Maltese prime minister later on this afternoon, in a three-day visit.

The 6:30pm visit from Elmar Mammadyarov, which includes executives from the state oil and gas company SOCAR, was revealed by Malta Independent columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Over the weekend, her allegations of money transfers from an Azerbaijan bank account to the Panama offshore companies held by the PM’s chief of staff Keith Schembri and minister Konrad Mizzi were instantly met with two libel actions.

Spain’s Reganosa wins Malta LNG management deal - LNG WORLD SHIPPING

Malta took delivery of its first LNG cargoes last week

Mon 16 Jan 2017 by Karen Thomas

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”.