GTT, the French maker of LNG containment systems, signed a 5-year service deal with a unit of US energy giant Chevron to support the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping operations. Under the deal, the French company will support Chevron Transport Corporation’s maintenance and operation of
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen, said it had won a contract to undertake the conversion of a dredger to dual-fuel capability combining liquefied natural gas (LNG) and marine gas oil (MGO). According to Damen, this will be the first conversion of its kind to
A naming ceremony was held on December 13 at Japan’s Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for a brand new liquefied natural gas carrier that will transport volumes for LNG importing giant JERA from Chevron’s Wheatstone project in Australia. Shipping giant NYK had ordere
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion has won a contract to undertake the conversion of a dredger to dual-fuel capability combining LNG and MGO. The contract was awarded by Rouen-based GIE Dragages-Ports with regard to its 117m, 8500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Samuel de Champlain, and the work
REN-operated Sines LNG import terminal in Portugal is to receive a fresh cargo of the chilled fuel, shipping data by the Port of Sines shows. The cargo will be delivered from Nigeria LNG’s Bonny Island liquefaction plant onboard the 141,000-cbm LNG Adamawa. The carrier delivered to NLNG in 2005 from
South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is to deliver by the end of this year a 50,000 dwt bulk carrier, claimed to be the world’s largest LNG-fuelled ship. This was revealed in a joint statement on Thursday by Lloyd’s Register and Hyundai Mipo’s parent company Hyundai Heavy Industries. The two companie
International law firm Watson Farley & Williams said Thursday it had advised Teekay LNG Partners and its joint venture partner China LNG Shipping on the $1.6 billion long-term financing for the construction of six Arc7 LNG carrier newbuildings. All the ships will be built at South Korea’s Daewoo Shi
Dragflow SRL, an Italian manufacturer of dredging equipment, recently supplied brand-new hydraulic pump to the Ukrainian company Nibulon. According to the company, the pump HY 400 HC have been sold to Nibulon for the use on their new dredger ‘Mykolaivets’. “Thanks to our pump, the vessel is able to
Cryonorm BV said in their latest release that the LNG fuel tank for Van der Kamp’s new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Ecodelta is on the move and heading for Barkmeijer Shipyard in Stroobos, the Netherlands. Cryonorm, the Alphen aan den Rijn based company, develops, designs and manufactures
French tidal energy developer EEL Energy has conducted trials on its scaled tidal energy prototype in the port of Brest in France.
The European Investment Bank (EIB), Societe Generale and Brittany Ferries said they have signed the first green maritime financing under EIB’s 750 million euros ($883m) Green Shipping Guarantee programme. The new vessel “Honfleur” will be Brittany Ferries’ first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered f
Dutch company OOS International Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Merchants Industry Holdings to design and construct a new semi-submersible crane vessel, claiming the vessel to be the largest of its kind in the world. The 225m vessel named OOS Zeelandia will have two cranes
Russia’s Novatek, the operator of the recently commissioned giant Yamal LNG export project, said on Monday that the first cargo from the Arctic facility had been sold to a UK-based LNG unit of Malaysian energy giant Petronas. The first LNG cargo containing 170 thousand cubic meters of the chilled fu
Teekay LNG Partners, one of the world’s largest owners of LNG carriers, said on Monday it has completed an $816 million long-term debt facility to finance all six of the 50-percent owned Arc7 newbuildings which will serve the Yamal project in Russia. The first vessel of the six ice-breaking carriers
