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Night falls at the LNG storage tank facility on Yangguang Island, in Yangkou port. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]

A new high point was marked on Dec 29 with the arrival of the Q-Flex LNG tanker Al Karaana – loaded with 91,000 tons of liquefied natural gas – at the LNG terminal at Yangguang Island, located in Yangkou port in Nantong city, in East China's Jiangsu province.

The tanker was the 87th and last ship in 2021  handled by the terminal. Its berthing took to 7.18 million tons, the total amount of LNG unloaded there – equivalent to about 10.05 billion cubic meters of natural gas – to create a 10-year high.

Since May 24, 2011, when the first LNG tanker berthed at Yangkou port, the facility has been open to 25 countries and regions with natural gas shipments involved in the Belt and Road Initiative. During that period, it has offloaded a total of 506 LNG tankers carrying 42 million tons of LNG and exported more than 60 billion cu m of natural gas.

To date, four major LNG handling and storage facilities operated by PetroChina, Jiangsu Guoxin Investment, GCL and China Resources have settled on Yangguang Island.

The island is moving towards becoming an integrated energy hub for LNG unloading, storage, gasification, bonded storage and transshipments.