OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2011. China may receive a spot cargo of liquefied natural gas from Yemen today, according to ship- tracking data.

China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s Guangdong terminal may get the fuel from Balhaf, Yemen, on the Maersk Arwa on Aug. 10, according to ship transmissions captured today by AISLive on Bloomberg. It received a cargo on Aug. 8 on the LNG River Orashi, possibly from Bonny LNG in Nigeria, the data show.

Spot purchases from Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago and the U.S. totaled 132,059 metric tons in June and cost an average USD 754 a ton, according to China customs data.