STX Norway Offshore has entered into a new contract with Olympic Shipping for the building of an LNG powered Platform Supply Vessel. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in Q1 2012. The new vessel is designed by STX Norway Offshore Design in Ålesund. The hull is to be built at Tulcea, Romania, and t
Global gas conference and exhibition, Gastech 2011, will be supported by 21 leading international trade associations, delivering unprecedented endorsement and confirming its premier reputation within the gas industry. The show of support for Gastech 2011 from the gas industry, as well as the Dutch G
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. is making big strides in its business in Russia with advanced technologies and a localization… (koreaherald) [mappress] Source: koreaherald, September 9, 2010;
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, has been selected to supply its flexible gas propulsion solution for a series of new LNG carriers to be built at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea. The selection of Wärtsilä gas engines is indicative of the current emphas
NSK Shipping AS, a coastal vessel operator based in northern Norway, has recently placed an order for a state-of-the-art LNG-fuelled multi purpose vessel at the Turkish shipyard, Tersan. The vessel, designed by Nordnorsk Skipskonsult AS, will be classed to DNV. Scheduled for delivery in 2012, the ge
Together with DNV and other partners, DNV customer Reederei Stefan Patjens is ready to retrofit LNG on board a 5,000 TEU container vessel. When completed, this would be the very first use of LNG as fuel on board a container ship and of LNG as fuel in worldwide trading. The vessel in mind is a [&hell
Lithuania is studying the location and budget for a liquefied natural gas terminal, the country’s energy minister Arvydas Sekmokas said this… (balticbusinessnews) [mappress] Source: balticbusinessnews, September 8, 2010;
On August 27, 2010 Sakhalin Energy produced the 100th LNG cargo at Prigorodnoye production complex starting from January 2010. Each produced cargo is defined as 145 000 m³. The Sakhalin-2 LNG plant was launched in February 2009. In less than 1.5 years of operation and production, the first Russian L
The Board of Directors of EXMAR has drawn up the accounts for the period ending 30th June 2010. The Group had an operating result (EBIT) of USD 15.9 million for the first semester 2010 (USD 20.7 million for the first semester 2009). The financial result was negatively influenced by the change in fai
The Fos Cavaou LNG terminal has received the green light from the Bouches du Rhône Prefecture to operate at full capacity. With its 8.25 billion cu.m/year natural gas capacity, Fos Cavaou increases France’s LNG regasification capacity to over 23 billion cu.m/year, thus strengthening the security of
Cryostar SAS, a leading global cryogenic equipment manufacturer, has implemented Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise solutions to integrate the design, process, piping, instrumentation and structural tasks for its power plant and gas liquefaction projects. Cryostar implemented Intergraph SmartPlant 3
Wallenius Marine AB and LNG GOT AB have entered a strategic partnership to examine possibilities for using liquid natural gas (LNG) as a shipping fuel in existing and newly built vessels in the Wallenius fleet. The study is intended to show how LNG can be used as a fuel in a manner that is economica
Vanzetti Engineering S.r.l. has completed construction of Italy’s first public Liquefied to Compressed Natural Gas (LCNG) fuelling station… (ngvglobal) [mappress] Source: ngvglobal, August 31, 2010;
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power solution provider, has signed a turnkey contract with Tarbit Shipping of Sweden to convert a product tanker to LNG propulsion, and to supply the ship with a Wärtsilä LNGPac system for the safe and convenient storage of LNG onboard. This is the first
