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Poland’s Orlen adds two LNG carriers to fleet
Two new LNG carriers have joined Orlen’s fleet under 10-year charters, lifting the company’s total to eight vessels
Polish company Orlen reports it has added two LNG carriers to its fleet following a naming ceremony at the Hanwha Ocean shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.
The company said the vessels – Danuta Siedzikówna-Inka and Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki – will support gas deliveries to Poland and increase flexibility across its LNG logistics chain.
Orlen management board president Ireneusz Fąfara said, “Orlen is investing continuously in the energy security and independence of both Poland and the wider region.”
He added that the group was expanding its trading capacity by growing its fleet and said, “Each additional carrier enhances the flexibility of LNG transport to Poland and enables us to ensure stable supplies for Polish consumers and all our customers, while strengthening the energy security of the entire region.”
According to Orlen, each vessel has a capacity for 174,000 m3 of LNG and can carry about 70,000 tonnes of liquefied gas per voyage, equivalent to about 100M m3 of natural gas after regasification.
The company said that it is roughly equal to the quantity consumed by all Polish households in an average week.
It also said each carrier can deliver close to 1 TWh of energy after regasification, representing about 0.5%-0.6% of Poland’s annual natural gas demand.
Orlen said the ships were designed to call at most LNG terminals worldwide and are chartered for 10 years, with an option to extend.
It said one vessel on the US-Europe route could complete eight to nine voyages a year, providing transport capacity of 8-9 TWh of gas a year.
The company said the two carriers include a reliquefaction system to recover LNG that evaporates during transit, integrated power management and engines able to run on natural gas and diesel.
Natural gas remains part of the transition strategy, and demand in Poland could rise to 27Bn m3 a year over the next decade, according to Orlen.
It also said the Świnoujście terminal received 81 LNG cargoes last year, 20 more than a year earlier, while LNG imported by sea reached nearly 6M tonnes, up 30% year-on-year.
The company added that it has booked the entire regasification capacity of the floating LNG terminal in Gdańsk Bay, amounting to 6.1Bn m3 a year, and said that once the facility is in operation, the number of cargoes received by the group could rise by as many as 58 vessels a year.
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