据普氏能源资讯11月23日伦敦消息称，据普氏贸易流软件cFlow称，Golar Tundra液化天然气油轮在新科珀斯克里斯蒂(Corpus Christi)液化天然气设施停靠一周后，已经开始向切尼尔能源公司的Sabine Pass液化天然气终端驶去。
这批货物显示空载，表明它可能实际在Sabine Pass设施装载，而不是像预期的那样在新的Corpus Christi出口设施装载。
根据长期租约协议租赁给美国液化天然气开发商切尼尔的这艘船舶自11月11日起一直停靠在科珀斯克里斯蒂终端。公司官员早些时候曾建议它可能很快从科珀斯克里斯蒂向东方运送第一批载有液化天然气的货物。 。
切尼尔于11月14日在科珀斯克里斯蒂开始生产液化天然气。
上周，切尼尔首席执行官杰克福斯科告诉普氏，该设施的初始生产被用来冷却终端的储罐。官员们当时表示，Golar Tundra或其他油轮将从该设施装载第一批液化天然气货物。
Fusco表示，考虑到目前的净回报因素，来自科珀斯克里斯蒂的第一批货物很可能会运往远东地区。
然而，由于亚洲价格疲软和运费高企，目前将现货运往欧洲可能更具经济优势。
周四，基于普氏 JKM基准现货价格，普氏评估美国墨西哥湾沿岸对日本/韩国的净回报为6.469美元/ MMBtu，而基于普氏 Dutch TTF月度预测，USGC对西北欧净回报则为6.784美元/ MMBtu。
科珀斯克里斯蒂（Corpus Christi）是美国第三大主要页岩气液化天然气出口设施。2016年，第一大液化天然气出口设施是位于路易斯安那州的切尼尔Sabine Pass终端，其次是今年3月建成的的位于马里兰州的道明能源Cove Point终端。
曹海斌 摘译自 普氏能源资讯
原文如下：
Unladen LNG tanker Golar Tundra heads toward Sabine Pass from Corpus Christi
The Golar Tundra LNG tanker has started to move toward Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass LNG terminal after spending a week anchored at the company's new Corpus Christi LNG facility, according to S&P Global Platts trade flow software cFlow.
The cargo was showing unladen, indicating that it might actually load at the Sabine Pass facility instead of the new Corpus Christi export facility as had been expected.
The vessel, which is leased to US LNG developer Cheniere under a long-term charter agreement, had been at the Corpus Christi terminal since November 11. Company officials had earlier suggested that it may carry the first laden LNG cargo from Corpus Christi eastward sometime soon.
Cheniere began LNG production at Corpus Christi Last week, Cheniere CEO Jack Fusco told Platts that initial production from the facility was being used to cool down the terminal's storage tanks. Officials said at the time that either the Golar Tundra or another tanker would load the first LNG cargo from the facility.
Fusco said the first cargo from Corpus Christi would likely go to the Far East, given current netback opportunities.
However, it could be more economically advantageous to send spot cargoes to Europe at the moment,On Thursday, Platts assessed the US Gulf Coast netback to Japan/Korea at $6.469/MMBtu (based Corpus Christi is the third major export facility in the US producing LNG from shale gas to enter service. Cheniere 's Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana was the first, in 2016, followed by Dominion Energy 's Cove Point terminal in Maryland in March of this year.
