RasGas widens global reach with first Mexico LNG cargo delivery

RasGas has made first delivery of liquefied natural gas at the Manzanillo LNG receiving terminal in Mexico.

The LNG cargo was sent to Mexico through RasGas customer RWE.

The cargo, which sailed across the Pacific Ocean to Manzanillo in Mexico’s west coast, was delivered by RWE-chartered conventional sized vessel ‘Cadiz Knutsen’.

“The delivery of this cargo in collaboration with our customers in the short term market is a great achievement for RasGas and Qatar as well as for our customer, RWE,” said Khalid Sultan R al-Kuwari, RasGas’ chief marketing and shipping officer. “This delivery also adds to our global reach in the markets we serve. It is a further demonstration of our ability to supply and deliver LNG reliably and safely,” he said.

Mexico’s Comision Federal de Electricidad awarded a tender in May for 19 spot cargoes to Amsterdam-based Trafigura Beheer; two shipments to RWE, Germany’s second-largest utility, and eight to BP, the company said, according to Bloomberg.