
South Korean shipbuilding major Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) started the week with a new order for two very large crude carriers (VLCCs).

Chinese shipyard, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, has recently completed the sea trials for the first FSRU it is building for the Greek shipping company, Dynagas.

Greenlink Interconnector has appointed Paul O’Rourke as construction director for the 500MW subsea link that will connect the grids in Ireland and the UK.

Lithuanian Klaipėdos Nafta has been planning to perform a study of long-term capacity allocation alternatives and pricing to identify the most suitable model for the Klaipėda LNG terminal.

French liquefied natural gas containment specialist GTT has been contracted to design tanks for a trio of LNG carriers.

Crowley Engineering Services has completed the design of the first fully electric U.S. tugboat with autonomous technology.

Azinam Limited and Panoro Energy have received governmental approval and closed the previously announced farm-out agreement on Block 2B offshore South Africa with Africa Energy.

Decommissioning solutions provider Maersk Decom has designed a calculating tool for benchmarking decommissioning projects in the North Sea.

China’s Shandong Oil & Gas, CCCC Urban and Rural, and Yantai Port have signed an agreement to cooperate on the LNG import facilities project.

Finland-based ferry company Viking Line’s new LNG-powered vessel Viking Glory is taking shape at XSI shipyard in Xiamen, China.

Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has switched its order for an FSRU with the DSME into an order for a liquefied natural gas carrier.

UK-based geoscience and engineering services provider Next Geosolutions has secured survey work for the western part of the Tyrrhenian Link interconnector.

The first appraisal well on the CNOOC-operated Glengorm gas field in the UK central North Sea has found “no commercial hydrocarbons”.

Danish marine consultancy Knud E. Hansen (KEH) has presented its design of a series of medium-capacity LNG bunkering tankers under the name of the X-gas Project.