Korea Gas Corporation announced that it held a ceremony to celebrate the world’s first ‘5,000th arrival of LNG vessels at the Pyeongtaek LNG Terminal on January 26th, 2023.

About 40 people attended the event, including Choi Yeon-hye, president of Korea Gas Corporation, and Lee Kyu-bong, CEO of Hyundai LNG Shipping, as well as officials from both companies and ship crew.

The total distance that LNG carriers have transported natural gas to Pyeongtaek over 5,000 times is about 90 million km, which is equivalent to circling the Earth 2,259 times.

The Pyeongtaek LNG Terminal, ‘the first LNG receiving base in Korea’, opened the era of the domestic natural gas industry by supplying Indonesian natural gas to the Pyeongtaek Thermal Power Plant in 1986 and to the metropolitan area from the following year.

In particular, the Pyeongtaek LNG Terminal, which has one of the longest and highest records of achieving no accident in the public energy sector, proves the corporation's management vision of "safety is the first principle of management" by achieving "no accident 5,000 ports" over the past 37 years since the first LNG carrier("Golar Spirit") entered the port in November 1986.