REN Redes Energeticas Nacionais SGPS S A : Sines LNG Terminal with record usage
January 12, 2023 at 12:40 pm
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Sines LNG Terminal with record usage
11.01.2023
In 2022, the Sines Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal reached new all-time annual activity records, both in the number of received ships and in the volume of received energy.
Over the year, the Sines LNG Terminal unloaded 71 methane carriers, whose LNG was fully allocated to supplying domestic consumption. The previous high dated back to 2019, with 67 received ships, 65 of which were unloadings and two were ship cooling operations. The values of received energy also reached an all-time high of 63.33 TWh, surpassing the previous record, also from 2019. Each ship leaves about 145,000 m3 of Liquefied Natural Gas in Sines, enough to supply Portugal for a week.
The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal is operated by REN Atlântico, which receives the LNG and stores it in the facility's tanks for later regasification and injection into the transmission network. REN is responsible for the high-pressure transmission of natural gas and for the overall technical management of the National Natural Gas System, thus ensuring the reception, storage, and regasification of LNG, as well as the underground storage of natural gas, under concession contracts signed with the Portuguese Government until 2046.
REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais SGPS SA published this content on 11 January 2023 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 12 January 2023 12:39:01 UTC.
REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais, SGPS, S.A. specializes in the operation and concession management of the Portuguese electricity transportation network. Net sales break down by activity sector as follows:
- electricity (63.7%): transportation of electricity from producers to end distributors and consumers, management of the electricity transportation network (connecting user installations to the network, maintenance of the network, etc.). At the end of 2022, the network has a total of 9,424 Km;
- gas (34.8%): transportation of natural gas from producers to end distributors and industrial consumers, underground storage of natural gas, receiving, storage, and regasification of liquid natural gas (LNG), infrastructure construction and maintenance services, etc.;
- telecommunications (1.3%);
- other (0.2%).