LNG

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) has launched a new liquid cargo training facility at its Maritime Training Centre in Cyprus to support its growing global LNG shipping operations.

GTT has received an order from the Chinese shipyard HudongZhonghua Shipbuilding Co. for the tank design of three new LNG carriers (LNGC) on behalf of the Chinese ship-owner COSCO Shipping.

UK-based GTT Training Limited has agreed an LNG training partnership with Wavelink Maritime Institute (WMI) of Singapore.

Wärtsilä has launched a Compact Reliq reliquefaction plant. The system extends the companys existing boil-off gas (BOG) reliquefaction solution to smaller size gas carriers and LNG bunker vessels, and is also intended…

Gaztransport & Technigaz’s (GTT) Mark III membrane containment technology will be used to equip five new LNG carriers being built by Russian shipyard Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex. The deal closely follows the announcement…

GTT has announced the signing of a Technical Assistance and License Agreement (TALA) with Zvezda Shipyard.

Construction for two next-generation LNG-fuelled chemical tankers for Swedish operator Terntank began at the China Merchant Jinling shipyard in China on 31 June.

Netherlands-based ship operator Doeksen officially commissioning the first of two new ferries, MS Willem Barentz, in a ceremony in Harlingen, the Netherlands, on 1 July. The ferry is powered by two 1,492kW…

Hamburg based LNG supplier Nauticor, a subsidiary of the Nordic energy company Gasum, has conducted the initial ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation for a newbuild cruise ship.

WinGD is launching an innovative new solution that will permit further optimisation of its X-DF dual-fuel engine platform. The solution, Intelligent Control by Exhaust Recycling (iCER), will lower methane emissions by 50%,…

Energy major Total has agreed to develop new concepts for green LNG production with LNG plant specialist Siemens Gas and Power.

The first offshore bunkering facility for LNG at a Chinese port will be developed at the port of Shenzhen, the port authorities announced on 3 June.

GTT has received an order from the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the design of a new floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) on behalf of the Japanese…

Qatar Petroleum signed a substantial agreement with three major South Korean shipyards for the construction of over 100 LNG carriers on Tuesday, 2 June. The near US$20 billion (70 billion Qatari riyal)…

Russian energy shipping company, Sovcomflot, has announced that one of its Arc7 ice class LNG carriers completed an eastward passage through the Northern Sea Route to China on 31 May. The passage…

Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded its first cyber security notation for an LNG carrier.

Wärtsilä will provide an LNG package, comprising the Wärtsilä 31DF engine, gearbox, and LNGPac storage, supply and control system, for the first LNG-fuelled ferries to be built in Japan.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd launched Japans first LNG bunker vessel at its Sakaide shipyard on 13 May. The vessel is expected to be handed over to a consortium by the end of…

The LNG bunker vessel Kairos, operated by Nauticor, has supplied Älvtank’s Ramelia in the first ship-to-ship bunkering operation for a product tanker in Germany.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has delivered the worlds largest LNG bunker vessel to Mitsui O.S.K Lines (MOL) for operation in Northern Europe.

Babcock LGE’s LNG reliquefaction technology has completed live cargo operations on an LNG carrier following the first loading of Sovcomflot’s ‘SCF La Perouse’ in Houston, Texas at the end of March.

Qatar Petroleum signed an agreement with Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) for the construction of LNG carriers on Wednesday, 22 April. The 20 billion yuan (US$2.86 billion)…