LNG

A new service will connect LNG-using ship owners and charterers directly to gas bunker suppliers.

GTT has received an order from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to equip two LNG carriers with its NO96 GW containment system.

A German shipbuilder has chosen Kongsberg’s Integrated Vessel Concept to equip a newbuild LNG research ship it is building for Germany’s national hydrographic agency.

Few vessel sectors have grown dramatically in recent years, but the market for floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) is on the up after record contract awards in 2016. Sveinung Stohle, CEO…

MAN Cryo is to supply fuel gas supply systems (FGSS) for two LNG-battery vessels to be built by Vard for Norwegian ferry operator Torghatten Nord.

Wärtsilä and COSCO shipping Heavy Industry Co (CHI) have developed a natural gas operating fleet concept which has obtained Lloyds Registers (LR) Approval in Principle (AiP) certificate.

Two-stroke engine designer WinGD has hailed the selection of its X-DF dual-fuel technology for the world’s first LNG powered Aframax tankers, ordered last month by Sovcomflot (SCF).

Russian shipping operator Sovcomflot appeared at the Gastech 2017 conference in Tokyo to discuss its broader LNG plans and its belief that the future of tanker industry belongs to LNG-fuelled vessels.

DSME and DNV GL have unveiled a joint development project (JDP) for the design of an innovative, efficient LNG carrier based on the latest technology.

Norwegian ferry operator Torghatten Nord has placed orders for two 130m LNG-battery ferries to be built by Vard Brevik, with plans for a further three to be built at an as-yet undecided…

Norwegian LNG transport and processing company Hoegh LNG is to employ Wärtsilä engines and regasification plant on two new floating storage and regasifcation units (FSRU).

AET Tankers has announced that up to four of its Aframax ships under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries will have LNG dual-fuel propulsion.

Houlder, Wärtsilä and Trelleborg have developed a floating transfer terminal (FTT) that will enable ship to-shore LNG bunkering without a jetty, reducing infrastructure investment for small to mid-scale projects.

ABB is to supply power and electric propulsion systems to a new 174,000m3 floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) for BW…

Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries is to build four 114,000 dwt tankers - understood to be the first gas-fuelled aframax vessels ordered - for Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF).

The recently delivered ‘MOL Triumph’ – at 20,170 teu, the world’s largest containership – has been built with the potential for conversion to LNG fueled operations, owner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has…

ABS has granted Approval in Principle for Algoship Designers Ltd’s dual-fuel design concept, the Seatransporter-DF.