CNOOC Energy has signed a project framework agreement with Nippon Yusen (NYK) and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) LNG Project 4 Co. to establish an LNG carrier joint venture with a total investment of €412.6 million (around $446 million). According to a stock exchange filing from 24 August, t
AET, a Singapore-based petroleum logistics unit of Malaysian energy logistics group MISC Berhad, has delivered its newest Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) powered by dual-fuel LNG engines on long-term charter to Shell Tankers (Singapore) Private Limited. It is the first of three crude tankers to be d
China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has completed gas trials of the third LNG carrier built for CSSC Shipping, the financial leasing entity of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Hudong-Zhonghua said the vessel completed the gas trial in only five days and returned to the yard on 11 August
South Korea’s shipbuilding major HD Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate holding company for shipbuilding under HD Hyundai, has constructed and delivered the world’s first ship equipped with an ‘AI engineer’. The company has delivered and installed an AI-based engine a
Woodside has reached an in-principle agreement with the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), the Electrical Trades Union, and other bargaining representatives on an enterprise agreement (EA) covering 150 employees on its North West Shelf offshore platforms, in a bid to avert industrial action.
State-owned oil and gas company QatarEnergy has awarded Spanish engineering firm Técnicas Reunidas additional engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work on its North Field South project. The award, which is the fourth from Qatar Energy to Técnicas Reunidas in the last two years, has a valu
Low and zero-emission fuels supplier Titan has performed its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operations in Hamburg, Germany. The company said it performed its first-ever ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in Hamburg on 31 July to Vox Ariane, Van Oord’s trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The sec
UAE’s integrated gas processing company ADNOC Gas has signed a five-year LNG supply agreement with energy company Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX). ADNOC said the agreement, valued between $450 million (AED 1.65 billion) and $550 million (AED 2 billion), builds on the long-standing bilateral rela
Oil major Shell, Japanese shipping company NYK Line and FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and Shell Eastern Petroleum, have carried out the first simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering for a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) in Southeast Asia.
Greek Angelicoussis Group’s LNG carrier Maran Gas Coronis has delivered the first LNG cargo to China’s Nansha Guangzhou LNG terminal. The vessel was berthed at the terminal on 8 August 2023, Angelicoussis stated on social media, adding that during the week-long operation, the carrier undertook the c
LNG-fueled cruise ship Silver Nova, the first in the future line of Nova class ships for Monaco-based Silversea Cruises, has started its maiden voyage. The ship started its maiden voyage on 14 August, departing Venice, Italy, and will sail on a seven-day roundtrip through the Adriatic. It will call
Elliott Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ebara Corporation, has secured an order to supply cryogenic rotating equipment for the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project being developed by Sempra Infrastructure in Jefferson County, Texas. Elliott said it was awarded the contract by Bechtel Energy, a compan
Hanwha Ocean, formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), has started the construction of the first Qatar-bound LNG carrier for K3 Consortium comprising H-Line Shipping, Pan Ocean, and SK Shipping. To mark the start of the construction, the shipbuilder held a steel-cutting cer
U.S.-based Commonwealth LNG has closed an investment of development capital from private funds managed by Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, boosting the development of its LNG export project in Louisiana, U.S. The investment is said to complete the development funding required for Commonwealth L
