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Wartsila scores Hoegh LNG deal
Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide both equipment and maintenance for FSRU and LNG carrier vessels of Norway’s Höegh LNG. Two new 170,000-cbm LNG vessels being built for Höegh LNG at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyards in Korea wi
Total, Pavilion Energy join forces on LNG bunkering in Singapore
France’s Total signed a memorandum of understanding with Pavilion Energy for cooperation on LNG bunkering in Singapore.
Trafigura proposes standard LNG sale and purchase contract
Trafigura Group, one of the world’s largest commodity trading companies, called for the adoption of a standard master sale and purchase agreement (MSPA) for the LNG industry.
Sevan Marine, Fluor ink LNG cooperation deal
Norway’s Sevan Marine, through its unit HiLoad LNG, signed an agreement to cooperate with Fluor on global projects utilizing HiLoad’s floating regasification dock (FRD) LNG technology.
Portugal books Algerian LNG cargo
REN’s Sines LNG import terminal on Portugal’s Atlantic coast is scheduled to receive a cargo from Algeria during the weekend.
Peru ships LNG cargo to Spain
Peru’s only liquefaction facility at Pampa Melchorita shipped a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Spain last week.
Shell to fuel Sovcomflot’s LNG-powered Aframax quartet
A unit of the Hague-based LNG giant Shell has signed a deal with Russia’ Sovcomflot to supply liquefied natural gas to the first Aframax crude oil tankers in the world to be powered by the chilled fuel. Under the deal, Shell Western LNG B.V. will refuel the vessels from a specialised LNG bunker vess
First LNG bunkering in port of Bilbao
LNG-fueled cement carrier, Ireland, became the first vessel to bunker liquefied natural gas in the Spanish port of Bilbao.
Gallery: LNG bunkering vessel Engie Zeebrugge arrives in Belgium
The LNG bunkering vessel, Engie Zeebrugge, arrived in its home port of Zeebrugge, Belgium over the weekend.
Qatar ships more LNG to UK
Qatar, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, has shipped another cargo of the chilled gas to the UK.
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DSME: world’s first Arctic LNG carrier completes ice trials South Korean shipbuilding giant Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) said the world’s first ice class LNG carrier, Christophe de Margerie, completed the ice trials in the Arctic Ocean. Update: Petronas’ floating LNG producer load
SCF’s ice-breaking carrier in Yamal LNG first
Christophe de Margerie, the world’s first ice-breaking LNG tanker, has become the first vessel to dock at Yamal LNG’s terminal at Sabetta Port in Russia. The LNG carrier sailed through a new route that could open the ice-bound Arctic Ocean to ships carrying LNG and oil. The vessel was designed to or
Desgagnes’ LNG-fueled asphalt tanker to deliver first cargo soon
Quebec-based Transport Desgagnés has on Thursday officially taken delivery of its first LNG-fueled asphalt tanker recently completed in Turkey. The Damia Desgagnés asphalt-bitumen-chemical tanker is the first of a series of four carriers, custom-built under a concept developed by Desgagnés and order
Hoegh LNG holds naming ceremony for its 7th FSRU
Norway-based floating LNG giant Höegh LNG has on Friday named its seventh floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in a ceremony at the Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard at Ulsan in South Korea. The 170,032-cbm FSRU named Höegh Giant will have a regas capacity of 750 MMscf/day. Höegh LNG sai