Italian oil and gas company Eni has launched the second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project in the Republic of Congo to increase production and export. To this end, Eni has signed a contract with Chinese shipyard Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of an FLNG unit wi
Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of North American energy company Sempra, has received authorisation from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from two projects in Mexico. On 22 December, Sempra announced that Energía Costa Azul, S. de R.L. de C.V. (ECA LNG
Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has received an order to provide cargo pumps for seven LNG/LBG-fueled chemical and product tankers.
LNG development company Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) has signed a charter agreement with ADNOC Logistics & Services (ADNOC L&S), the shipping unit of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to utilise the latter’s LNG carrier as a floating storage unit (FSU) at its planned LNG import terminal in India
Classification society RINA has granted approval in principle (AiP) for Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding’s (SWS) very large crude carrier (VLCC) vessel design which can run on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen.
ASYAD Shipping, a part of Oman’s national logistics provider ASYAD Group, has signed an agreement with South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. According to a stock exchange filing, the order for two LNG carriers was placed on 21
AB Klaipedos Nafta, operator of Klaipeda LNG Terminal, and AB Amber Grid, gas transmission system operator, have begun a joint process of Open Season procedure at the terminal and Lithuanian gas transmission system. The operators said they seek to evaluate possibilities to expand the current Klaiped
Oil and gas giant Shell has shut down production at its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility offshore Australia after a fire broke out on 21 December. “On Wednesday 21 December at 16:25 AWST, there was a small fire detected on board Prelude in a turbine enclosure. The fire was quic
Japanese heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), its group company Ferry Sunflower Limited, and Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyuden) have revealed that Sunflower Kurenai, Japan’s first LNG-fuelled ferry received its first LNG fuel supply.
LNG has been described as a transitional fuel for the shipping industry for years now, and a practical solution for shipowners who want to act now on their emissions and not wait on the side-lines. Nevertheless, as of recently, we are also seeing that LNG is becoming a fuel in transition as owners s
Singapore-based shipyard group PaxOcean and French LNG containment specialist GTT have signed a technical service agreement that will enable PaxOcean to expand its repair scope by providing membrane tank maintenance and servicing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be repaired in PaxOcean Bat
Finnish transmission system operator Gasgrid Finland has completed construction work for the floating LNG terminal in the deep harbour area in Inkoo as it expects Excelerate Energy’s floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Exemplar to reach the terminal as early as 25 December. On 20 Decembe
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has delivered a 190,000 dwt dual-fuel LNG bulk carrier Ubuntu Harmony to Taiwanese bulk carrier company U-Ming Marine. The giant vessel is the first of the planned four LNG-powered ships to be completed by th
Norwegian energy player Equinor and its partners in the Snøhvit project have revealed plans to invest NOK 13.2 billion (around $1.3 billion) in upgrading the Hammerfest LNG (HLNG) plant at Melkøya with onshore gas compression and electrification. On 20 December, Equinor submitted a plan for developm
