​Qatargas Operating Company Limited (Qatargas) announced today the delivery of the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on a Q-Flex LNG carrier to the Adriatic LNG receiving terminal in Italy.

The cargo aboard the Qatargas-chartered LNG vessel, ‘Tembek,’ was loaded at Ras Laffan on 9^th June 2020 and delivered to the Adriatic LNG terminal on 21^st June 2020. This is the first cargo discharge operation by Qatargas to this LNG terminal involving a Q-Flex LNG carrier

The Adriatic LNG terminal is located 14 kilometers offshore of Porto Levante in the northern Adriatic near Rovigo, Italy. It is the world’s first offshore gravity-based LNG regasification terminal. The terminal is operated by ExxonMobil (70%), Qatar Terminal Ltd. (23%), a subsidiary of Qatar Petroleum, and Snam (7%). The terminal is connected to the Italian national distribution network through integrated pipelines.

​The terminal has a regasification capacity of 8 billion cubic metres of LNG per year (equal to half the total Italian LNG import capacity) and it currently supplies over 10% of the country’s natural gas requirements.