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CNOOC's Guangdong LNG Station is First to have Welcomed 1000 LNG Ships

Updated: 2019-07-29

The 1,000th ship carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China National Offshore Oil Corporation's (CNOOC) Dapeng LNG accepting station, the Australian LNG carrier Dapeng Star, was unloaded on July 19.

The station at that point became the first in China to have handled 1,000 LNG-carrying vessels.

According to CNOOC, the station has received 67 million tons of LNG from 20 countries in Asia and Africa, as well as Australia and the United States, since it went into operation in 2006.

Its imports account for 27 percent of the volume of all China's accepting stations established in the same period and 40 percent of the company's.

The first LNG pilot project under the framework of China's energy strategy, the Dapeng station guarantees a clean energy supply in Guangdong Province, contributes to its air protection campaign and promotes energy transformation.

The station supplies LNG for Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan, Huizhou and Hong Kong. The natural gas it brings in satisfies nearly 60 percent of Guangdong Province's needs and 37 percent of Hong Kong's.

Coal can release the same heat, but using natural gas eliminates 224 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, two million tons of sulfur dioxide emissions and vast quantities of smoke.

The reductions equal the carbon dioxide absorptive capacity of 540 million trees of a year.

CNOOC had initiated a plan to import LNG by the end of 1995 and developed the LNG import pilot project in Guangdong Province through foreign cooperation. The first phase of the project went into operation on June 28, 2006.

For the past 13 years, the company has developed a full natural gas industrial chain in southern Guangdong Province.

The imported natural gas is transmitted to six cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and 14 gas plants for oil refining, chemical engineering, glass manufacturing and the ceramics industry.

The project relieves the shortage of the fuel in those cities, where about 35 percent of the residents are equipped to use natural gas.

It also contributes to optimization of the regional energy structure and the Blue Sky Protection Campaign.

The most developed and active market, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is a key strategic base in China's offshore oil industry.

By the end of June 2019, CNOOC had built four LNG accepting stations in Guangdong Province where an annual 16.3 million tons of LNG can be unloaded.

A 1,283-kilometer natural gas transmission pipeline and a 323-kilometer urban line have also been constructed and have supplied 118.9 billion cubic meters to the province, making the company the largest natural gas supplier in Guangdong.

The LNG import project in Guangdong is a pilot demonstration and as such promotes the development of China's LNG industry.

Importing LNG has become one of the main strategies for guaranteeing China's energy security.

The 21 LNG accepting stations in operation in China by the end of 2018 had by that point already received nearly 90 million tons of the fuel.



(Executive editor: Hao Wen)

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