Yangkou Port emerges as key LNG hub with major capacity expansion
An LNG vessel docks at Yangkou Port. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]
Yangkou Port in Rudong county, Nantong, Jiangsu province now welcomes a liquefied natural gas tanker every four and a half days on average. The LNG is stored in tanks and then supplied to businesses and residents in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Over the past 13 years, Yangkou Port has received over 58 million metric tons of LNG from 26 countries and regions, including Qatar, Australia, and Russia.
The PetroChina Jiangsu LNG Terminal, the only operational LNG base at the port, currently has six LNG tanks with an annual capacity of 6.5 million tons. This facility supports one-third of Jiangsu province's natural gas supply and is now undergoing its fourth phase of expansion, which includes constructing an additional LNG tank to boost its receiving, storage, and delivering capacity to 10 million tons annually.
Yangguang Island is an artificial island at the Yangkou Port. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]
Since 2020, Rudong has received three new LNG terminal projects with a total investment of 20 billion yuan ($2.75 billion). Construction on the Guoxin LNG terminal has progressed significantly, with tanks 1-3 nearing completion and tank 4 under rapid construction. The terminal will have a total storage capacity of 800,000 cubic meters.
The GCL Huidong LNG Terminal plans to have two 200,000-cubic-meter LNG tanks operational by mid-2025, which will provide around 4 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually to the national pipeline network. The China Resources Gas LNG Terminal is planning to build a berth for LNG vessels up to 266,000 cubic meters, along with six 200,000-cubic-meter LNG storage tanks, aiming for an annual capacity of 6.5 million tons.
"Once all four LNG terminals are fully operational, Yangkou Port's annual capacity will exceed 22 million tons, boosting the gas supply for Jiangsu, Shanghai, and the broader Yangtze River Delta region. It will become the nation's largest LNG energy supply center," said Shao Feng, a Party official of the Yangkou Port Economic Development Zone.
