BP Gas Marketing Ltd v La Société Sonatrach and Another – QBD (Comm Ct) (Simon Bryan QC, sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) [2016] EWHC 2461 (Comm) – 7 October 2016

Contract – Importation of liquefied natural gas – Joint Shipper’s Agreement – Nitrogen costs – Construction of contract

The Isle of Grain, on the Medway Estuary, was home to a North Sea gas terminal (the Terminal) operated by Grain LNG Ltd (Grain), a National Grid company. In 2002 Grain started converting the existing plant into a terminal for discharging liquefied natural gas (LNG) from ocean-going tankers, storing it in tanks on site, and then converting it back into gas to be sent out into pipelines for distribution to domestic and commercial consumers.