On Sunday February 21st at 12:09PM Eastern time, the LNG ship Asia Vision arrived in Sabine’s southern berth. Genscape’s Commodity Vectors product as well as Genscape’s visual camera confirmed the arrival of the ship as there are two berths at Sabine’s LNG facility for ships to dock. The Asia Vision has been waiting out in the Gulf of Mexico along with the Energy Atlantic for many weeks now as Cheniere has encountered delays in the commissioning and startup of Train 1.
As of Sunday afternoon the Energy Atlantic is still waiting out in the Gulf of Mexico. Since Asia Vision did not immediately come into Sabine’s berth it is known that the ship is empty (and not bringing in a maintenance cargo) as part of the commissioning process. The last ship to appear in Sabine’s berth was the British Innovator on November 14th of last year. The British Innovator unloaded 2.87 Bcf as a maintenance ‘cool-down’ cargo in the startup and commissioning process of Train 1. As liquefaction continues at Train 1, Asia Vision appears to be the ship to take Sabine’s first LNG for export to Brazil or Europe, most likely. It is also anticipated that Sabine may fill all of their 17 Bcf of LNG storage before any LNG is loaded for export. As of this last week, Sabine has just begun this process of filling up their storage.
