Bahrain LNG Terminal to Start Commercial Operations in May

Bahrain's liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal will start commercial operations in May, with the first LNG shipment to be imported mostly from the UAE's ADNOC, state media quoted the CEO of Bahrain’s National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA) as saying.

Bahrain LNG is the developer of the receiving and regasification terminal within the Khalifa bin Salman Port facility in Hidd, Bahrain, Bahrain LNG's website says.

The terminal also houses an offshore LNG receiving jetty and breakwater, a regasification platform, subsea gas pipelines from the platform to shore, an onshore gas receiving facility, and an onshore nitrogen production facility, according to the website.

Bahrain's first LNG floating storage unit is anchored in the United Arab Emirates' Fujairah port, Refinitiv Eikon data shows.

The storage unit is expected to arrive at the Hidd terminal in May, Bahrain News Agency quoted NOGA chief executive Jassem al Shirawi as saying on Monday.

The report did not specify the overall shipment amount, a small part of which Chevron (CVX) will deliver later.

The terminal is more than 98 percent ready and the trial period will last only a few weeks, he told the news agency.

"Bahrain has signed agreements with more than 25 companies and gas-producing countries from around the world to import LNG," al Shirawi was quoted as saying.

The LNG import terminal, with a capacity of 800 million cubic feet per day, will allow Bahrain to import the super-chilled fuel as demand grows for natural gas to feed large industrial projects, generate power and produce oil.

(Reuters, Reporting by Dahlia Nehme; Editing by Dale Hudson)