The company, previously known as Eesti Gaas, said in a statement last week that the first LNG cargo was scheduled to arrive at the port of Inkoo from the US last Friday on board the LNG carrier Marvel Swallow.
The 174,000-cbm LNG carrier, owned by MOL and chartered by Mitsui & Co, delivered the cargo to Excelerate Energy’s 150,900-cbm FSRU Exemplar, which serves Gasgrid’s import facility in Inkoo under a charter deal, delivered the cargo from Sempra Infrastructure’s Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana, according to its AIS data provided by VesselsValue.
Elenger previously delivered several LNG cargoes to the Finnish FSRU, as well as to the 170,000-cbm FSRU Independence in Lithuania’s Klaipeda.
The company said that the next of these five LNG deliveries is planned to arrive in Klaipeda in the second half of April.
In total, three LNG cargoes will arrive in Inkoo and two in Klaipeda during the spring months, with additional deliveries planned for autumn, according to Elenger.
“We are beginning procurement for the next heating season and the filling of the underground gas storage facility in Latvia. Although the conflict in the Middle East has pushed up gas and oil prices, gas availability remains securely ensured, and all deliveries are proceeding as usual and without disruption,” said Margus Kaasik, chairman of the management board of Elenger Group.
“Elenger sources gas mainly from the United States and Norway, which means we are not directly dependent on Qatari LNG, the supply most affected by the current Middle East conflict. More broadly, physical gas availability in Europe remains stable, and storage filling has already begun,” Kaasik added.
Elenger supplies customers with natural gas of Western origin and renewable biomethane, and operates gas networks in Estonia, Latvia, and Poland, totaling 9,000 km.
