The empty 174,000m³ Puteri Sejinjang, controlled by Malaysian state-owned Petronas, has declared for arrival at the 14mn t/yr LNG Canada export terminal on 29 June, according to ship-tracking data from monitoring firm Vortexa.
LNG Canada, located on the west coast of British Columbia, has yet to export a cargo, but operator Shell's estimated timeline of "mid-2025" would align with a June-July first loading.
But Petronas is unlikely to load the first cargo from the terminal because the loading plan will be in order of equity stake in LNG Canada, market participants said.
Shell is the largest stakeholder in the terminal, with 40pc, followed by Petronas with a 25pc, Japan's Mitsubishi and state-owned PetroChina each holding a 15pc share in the project, and South Korean state-owned Kogas with a 5pc stake.
It is unclear when Shell would load its first cargo because few empty vessels are tracking a northeastern route from Asia to North America.
The Shell-chartered 174,000m³ Gaslog Glasgow has been holding offshore northern Japan in recent days and has a declared destination of"for orders", with a declared arrival date of 22 June, updated today from a previous declared arrival of 17 June.
And the empty 174,000m³ LNG Adventure departed Japan on 2 June and is tracking a relatively northwards path, further north than typical journeys back to the US Gulf coast through the Panama Canal. But the vessel is under a long-term charter from TotalEnergies and is only signalling "for orders".
