Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC on Saturday held a launching ceremony for Belgian DEME’s new vessel named Spartacus, claimed to be the world’s largest and the first LNG-powered cutter suction dredger. The ceremony took place at IHC’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The 44,180kW cutt
Japan’s Inpex said on Thursday it has shipped three liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes from its giant Ichthys project in Australia as it is also preparing to fire up the second liquefaction unit at the export facility this month. To remind, the $40 billion LNG export project sent its first LNG carg
US-based classification society ABS has teamed up with OceanFinance and Scorpius Space Launch Company (SSLC) on the SPACE TECH4SEA project to adapt composite technologies developed for the space industry to liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping. The project, attracting more than 1 million euro ($1.13
The Woodside-led North West Shelf joint venture has signed preliminary deals to process third-party gas, extending the operating life of the Karratha gas and LNG plant. NWS joint venture signed the non-binding deals on November 6 with the Browse joint venture, where Woodside is the operator as well,
Singapore-based Saga LNG Shipping signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding to provide an 80,000-cbm LNG carrier for a planned liquefied natural gas project on the Yangtze River in China. Chinese government has been lately pushing for the implementation of its Green Yangtze River plan to prote
U.S. energy company Kinder Morgan said it has placed into service part of its Louisiana natural gas pipeline that supplies the fuel to Cheniere’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. Kinder Morgan submitted a notification of the partial pipeline project in-service to the US Feder
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved short-term liquefied natural gas exports from the Cheniere’s Corpus Christi liquefaction project in Texas to non-free trade agreement countries over a two-year period.
Nasdaq-listed Golar LNG Partners, a limited partnership formed by Golar LNG, said Monday that its floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Freeze is expected to “shortly arrive” offshore Jamaica. The 125,000-cbm FSRU Golar Freeze will serve a 15-year charter for New Fortress Energy as a
Dutch PitPoint.LNG said it plans to open its planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering station in the German port of Cologne by the second quarter of 2019. To remind, PitPoint.LNG, which is a joint venture formed by Dutch duo PitPoint clean fuels and Primagaz Nederland, announced the LNG bunkeri
Malaysian energy giant Petronas said on Monday it has completed its first commercial gassing up and cooling down services at its Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak. The operation, which includes cooling down an LNG carrier’s tanks to cryogenic temperature after dry-docking and before loading its next ca
Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä has won a contract to supply propulsion and other equipment for Spanish Baleària’s liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered high-speed catamaran. The integrated scope of supply includes four Wärtsilä 31DF dual-fuel engines, four Wärtsilä waterjets, and the Wärtsilä LNGPac fu
Titan LNG, the service supplier of liquefied natural gas, completed the first LNG bunkering operation at Mukran Port on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea.
Malaysian energy giant Petronas said on Thursday it has completed its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply operation at its Pengerang regasification terminal in Johor. Petronas LNG, a unit of Petronas, supplied the cargo to Babcock Schulte’s 7,500 cubic meter LNG bunkering vessel Kairos. This fo
Japan’s Inpex said on Wednesday that its Naoetsu LNG terminal in Niigata Prefecture received the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from the giant Ichthys project in Australia. To remind, the $40 billion Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG export project shipped the first ever LNG cargo last week. The 1
