A Spanish import terminal is gearing up the services it offers to LNG carriers and plans to offer bunkering of the fuel to other types of vessels in the future.Reganosa LNG receiving terminal chief executive Emilio Bruquetas said the facility bunkered one LNG vessel in 2010, nine in 2011 and a further nine ships to date this year, supplying them with a total of 566,200 cubic metres.Bruquetas said Reganosa, located near Mugardos in northern Spain, carried out its largest bunkering transfer this August, supplying Angola LNG project vessel the 161,337-cbm Lobito (built 2011). In the same month the terminal cooled down and supplied LNG to BP’s 154,983-cbm British Emerald (built 2007) on its exit from the neighbouring Navantia Shiprepairs Fene-Ferrol. Bruquetas stressed the yard has been key in the development of its business, co-ordinating several bunkering operations with repair work being carried out on vessels. At present the bunkering operations are limited to LNG carriers but with the development of fuelling Bruquetas said: “We are studying direct bunkering from the facility to any ship which uses LNG fuel.“We are working with Navantia in order to improve the collaboration and make Ferrol a port of world reference for the transportation of LNG,” he said.