In the presence of senior executives of the partners in the LNG project, ENAP, Endesa Chile, Metrogas and BG, plus government officials of Trinidad and Tobago, the sailing ceremony was held of the ship “Methane Jane Elizabeth” from Port of Spain, this vessel bringing the first shipment of liquefied natural gas to the LNG terminal in Quintero.

The ceremony was headed by the Chilean minister of energy, Marcelo Tokman, the Chilean ambassador to the host country, Patricio Pradel, the chief executive of ENAP, Rodrigo Azócar, and his peers at Endesa Chile and Metrogas, Rafael Mateo and Eduardo Morandé respectively.

The event was held at the LNG Atlantic liquefaction plant, where “Methane Jane Elizabeth” set sail to Quintero.

The chief executive of ENAP, Rodrigo Azócar, said that the “Methane Jane Elizabeth” would sail to South America by the Atlantic to enter Chile by the Magellan Straits and reach Quintero at the weekend of June 27. He said that both the sailing of the first LNG ship to Chile and its arrival there at the end of the month “constitute an historic landmark for our country because we are taking a transcendental step toward our energy autonomy and because, for ENAP, it is proud to have been the promoter of this project since May 2004 until its present completion”.

Rodrigo Azócar added that “since the start of production of the first oil wells in Magallanes 60 years ago, ENAP has been at the vanguard in the development of energy sources in Chile, exploring the hydrocarbon fields in Chile and abroad, building the refineries of Aconcagua, Bío Bío and Gregorio, promoting geothermal energy, and recently biofuels, and now actively participating in the supply of LNG in Chile”.

The “Methane Jane Elizabeth” is 283 meters long and carries 145,000 cubic meters of LNG at -160°C, and makes an uninterrupted voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, passing through the Magellan Straits, before docking at Quintero in the Fifth Region.

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