GLNG: Peru LNG sends three cargoes to UK in August

Peru LNG, the operator of a natural gas liquefaction plant and export terminal in Pampa Melchorita, resumed exports in August following a planned shutdown for maintenance in July.

According to Peru’s national oil company (NOC) Perupetro, the Peru LNG consortium loaded a total of 174,497 tonnes of LNG in the month of August. This represented a fall of around 47.9% on the figure reported for June, the last month before the shutdown, when the group loaded five vessels with 335,203 tonnes of LNG.

It is, however, higher than the August 2021 figure of zero. Peru LNG did not process any gas in that month, as it spent much of the interval between May and September last year offline due to technical problems.

In any event, the Peru LNG plant appears to have received less gas than expected last month because Peru’s Energy and Mines Ministry issued an emergency order on August 11 that called for making domestic gas supplies a higher priority than LNG exports, LNG Prime reported. The ministry took this step after Pluspetrol (Argentina) took its gas-processing facility in Las Malvinas offline for repairs, it said. This shutdown, which lasted from August 11 to August 24, reduced the volume of feedstock flowing to Peru LNG, it explained.