After an international bidding, Guangdong LNG Project Phase 1 chose Northwest Shelf Australia LNG Venture as the long-term gas supplier and awarded it a 25 year contract securing an annual gas supply of 3.7 million tons. This is the first LNG import contract in China.

The supplier consists of 7 partners: Shell, BP, Chevron,BHP (Australia) ,Woodside (Shell and Australia cooperation), MiMY (3 Japanese companies' cooperation) and CNOOC.

The LNG Plant is located at Bala byland, 1260 km away from Perth, the capital of Western Australia. The LNG carrier departs from Vesnier Bay of Dampier Port, Western Australia and, after a 2,770 sea miles journey, arrives at reception terminal berth at Chengtoujiao, Dapeng Byland in Shenzhen for unloading.

Guangdong LNG Project, as China pilot project has brought along the development for shipbuilding industry to our country.

As the strategy of "domestic cargo carried by domestic transportation, domestic vessel built by domestic yard", the transportation of Guangdong LNG Project is carried on by China built vessel. The first three LNG vessel-"Dapeng Sun", "Dapeng Moon" and "Dapeng Star" mainly built by China have been delivered on April 3, 2008, July 10, 2008 and December 10, 2009 respectively.