China National Offshore Oil Corporation continues to expand its international LNG business with first deliveries to Turkiye and Italy.
CNOOC’s gas and power unit announced on Wednesday that the spot LNG shipments were recently delivered to the two countries.
This marks a significant breakthrough in expanding into emerging Mediterranean markets and enhancing the company’s global natural gas trade network, CNOOC Gas and Power said.
As an energy hub connecting Europe and Asia, Turkiye has become an increasingly important end-user buyer in the international LNG market in recent years, the company noted.
CNOOC’s successful LNG delivery to Turkiye not only marks a breakthrough into this new market but also creates favorable conditions for its future participation in regional energy cooperation and enhanced influence in European and global LNG trade, it said.
CNOOC Gas and Power did not provide further details regarding the shipments.
Images published by CNOOC Gas and Power show that the company delivered the cargoes with the 173,400-cbm Global Star and the 160,000-cbm Kool Frost.
Global Star’s AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows that the LNG carrier visited the Egegaz Aliaga LNG terminal in Turkiye last month, carrying a cargo from the Freeport LNG facility in Texas.
In addition, Kool Frost delivered a shipment from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana to the FSRU Toscana offshore Italy’s Livorno last month, the data shows.
These two shipments follow CNOOC’s first LNG delivery to Senegal.
The 174,000-vbm Flex Viglant deliverd a US LNG cargo to the 125,000-cbm FSRU Karmol LNGT Powership Africa, owned by the joint venture consisting of Turkiye’s Karpowership and Japan’s MOl, in December last year. (February 4, 2026, Source: https://lngprime.com/asia/chinas-cnooc-makes-first-lng-deliveries-to-turkiye-and-italy/176726/)
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