A steel cutting ceremony for DEME’s dual-fuel dredger was recently held at MTG Dolphin yard in Bulgaria. “Cutting of the first steel plate for the new project – 3,500 m3 trailing suction hopper dredger „Minerva” took place at MTG Dolphin on 4th of February,” Bulgaria’s MTG-Dolphin said on Friday. Be
Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer has signed a long-term deal to supply Pakistan State Oil Company (PSO) with liquefied natural gas. Under the deal, Qatargas 2 will supply 3.75 million tonnes per annum of LNG to PSO for a period of 15 years with the first cargo expected to be delivered in M
France’s fourth LNG import terminal located in the port of Dunkirk is scheduled to receive its first cargo of the chilled fuel in June this year, according to the latest construction update. This marks another delay as the EDF-operated terminal was initially expected to receive cargoes by the end of
Bermuda-based Golar LNG Partners said Wednesday it has entered into an agreement to buy the Golar Tundra FSRU from Golar LNG Limited. The deal is worth about $330 million, “less an expected amount of approximately $230 million of net lease obligations under the bank financing for the vessel“, Golar
A total of 16 new gas carrier ships being built in Japan for Japanese owners are to be powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines, the Finnish company said on Wednesday. The dual-fuel engines are capable of running on liquefied natural gas (LNG) or conventional diesel fuels. The contracts were all placed
Estonia’s Tallink Grupp informed it held a keel-laying ceremony for the LNG-powered ferry Megastar at the Meyer Turku yard on Monday. Total investment in the vessel is at €230 million and its delivery is set for the beginning of 2017, according to Tallink. The construction of the vessel kicked off a
Tower Software Ltd., a company involved in providing custom built software and hardware to the Hydrographic Surveying Industry, has installed a new crane dredging control system on the UK Dredging vessel Cherry Sand. “Our in proprietary crane control system outputs data from the crane to the process
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and Quantum Power, the pan-African energy infrastructure investment platform, said on Tuesday they have signed heads of terms for the construction and operation of the LNG import facilities at Tema. The Tema LNG project will have a capacity of about 3.40 million
Japan’s price of spot liquefied natural gas contracted in January averaged $7.1 per mmBtu on DES basis, down 30 cents from the previous month. The average LNG price for cargoes contracted last month in Japan was also the lowest since Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) started pub
The UK’s South Hook LNG terminal is due to receive the fourth cargo of chilled gas from Qatar in February. The Al Rekayyat LNG carrier, with a capacity of 216,000 cubic meters, is expected to arrive in the Milford Haven waterway and dock at the terminal’s jetty on February 16, port authority data re
Energy-hungry Pakistan, which became an LNG importing nation in March 2015, is to receive a cargo of chilled gas from Australia, shipping data reveals. Teekay LNG’s 155,000 cbm Tangguh Sago is currently on its way to Pakistan, carrying a cargo from the Santos GLNG facility located on Curtis Island o
Royal IHC is putting finishing touches on the trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) JUN YANG 1. With the deck-house now installed, the JUN YANG 1 is one step closer to delivery, set for the end of July 2016. The vessel, being built for CCCC Guangzhou Dredging Co., Ltd (GDC), is already equipped wit
Poland received on Monday its second ever cargo of liquefied natural gas from Qatar at the LNG import terminal in Świnoujście. The cargo, that will be used for further operational tests, was brought onboard the 210,000 cbm Q-flex LNG carrier Al Nuaman. The Q-Flex vessel also delivered the first carg
The naming ceremony of Charlock, Van den Herik’s new trailing suction hopper dredger, took place on February 6th in Harlingen. The vessel was built by Barkmeijer Shipyards and will start her first assignment in March 2016. The first Charlock’s task will include the coastal replenishment operations o
