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Golar, led by Norwegian businessman Tor Olav Troim, won a deal last year to provide its 2005-built 140,205-cbm vessel Golar Viking to the Krk project and convert it to a FSRU.<\/p>\n
The ship arrived at Hudong’s Chongming Island yard near Shanghai in January for the conversion works expected to take at least six months.<\/p>\n
However, this project also faced difficulties related to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic that continues to disrupt the entire industry. <\/p>\n
“The project team and contractors are working hard to mitigate any Covid-related challenges,” Golar’s chief executive Iain Ross <\/strong>said during the company’s call discussing second-quarter results.<\/p>\n “We are now planning for the vessel to depart from China to Europe late September, with vessel delivery upon commissioning and completion by the year-end according to the original plan,” he said.<\/p>\n LNG Croatia, the state-owned Krk terminal developer, plans to officially launch the long-awaited facility on January 1, 2021.<\/p>\n With this launch, Croatia will join the growing number of worldwide LNG importing nations.<\/p>\n The Krk terminal will send up to 2.6 bcm per year of natural gas into the country’s grid.<\/p>\n It includes the FSRU connected to a jetty and additional facilities, and the connecting high-pressure gas pipeline.<\/p>\n LNG Croatia previously said it would complete onshore works by November, just in time when the FSRU arrives.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the terminal developer also revealed<\/a> that all of terminal’s capacities have been booked for the next three years.<\/p>\n The capacity takers include Hungary\u2019s state-owned MFGK and trading firm MET.<\/p>\n Qatar’s PowerGlobe, the energy arm of privately-held Optimized Holding, booked the largest capacity spanning a period of 15 years.<\/p>\n Croatian first LNG import project costs 233.6 million euros ($276.6 million). EU is providing 101.4 million euros from the Connecting Europe Facility.<\/p>\n The project will also receive 100 million euros from the state budget and 32.2 million euros from shareholders equity contribution.<\/p>\n The post Golar says Croatian FSRU to leave China late September<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Croatia’s first FSRU will depart the Hudong-Zhonghua yard in China to its base on the island of Krk in the northern Adriatic Sea late September, according to the vessel owner Golar LNG. Krk LNG jetty (Image: LNG Croatia) Golar, led by Norwegian businessman Tor Olav Troim, won a deal last year to provide its 2005-built …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[95,10148,435,3102,5471,1152,6949],"class_list":["post-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-china","tag-croatian","tag-fsru","tag-golar","tag-late","tag-leave","tag-september"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Croatia to become LNG importing nation<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n