STX Offshore & Shipbuilding shipyard on Sunday hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the LNG carrier “Veliky Novgorod” for Sovcomflot (SCF Group) of Russia.
The order for two LNG carriers was placed with the South Korean shipyard under a long-term charter agreement with Gazprom Global LNG. The vessel delivery is scheduled for December next year.
The Atlanticmax LNG carriers have Ice2 (1C) class, carrying capacity of 170,000 cubic meters and a set of equipment for operations in low-temperature conditions.
This will enable the vessels to exercise year-round transportation of gas from almost all existing LNG terminals, and, in particular, from Russia’s Sakhalin-2 LNG project.
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LNG World News Staff, November 6, 2012; Image: SCF