The port of Rotterdam has seen the throughput of bunkered liquefied natural gas (LNG) rise from 100 tons in 2016 to 1,500 tons in 2017.
France’s GTT, the maker of LNG containment systems, said it had received several orders since the beginning of the year, including for the equipment of three LNG carriers and one bunkering vessel. The three LNGCs, offering capacities ranging from 174,000 to 180,000 cbm, will be built at Samsung Heav
DEME’s LNG-powered offshore multipurpose vessel, the Living Stone has caught fire on Thursday while under construction in a shipyard in Spain’s port town of Santurtzi. According to local media reports, the fire started on Thursday at around 4:55 PM local time, and was put out at around 5:20 PM. “The
Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer and LNG operator, Novatek plans to invest up to $1.5 billion to build a liquefied natural gas transshipment terminal on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The company is currently looking into two options for the location of the LNG hub, na
Poland’s state-owned gas company PGNiG is looking to boost the number of users of trucked liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the country. PGNiG is in charge of all the LNG supplies coming to Poland’s import terminal in Świnoujście operated by Gaz-System’s unit Polskie LNG. The company said in a statemen
Cheniere’s Sabine Pass liquefaction terminal in Louisiana, currently the only such a facility to export US shale gas overseas, has sent out less cargoes in the week ending February 14 as compared to the previous week. Five LNG vessels with a combined capacity of 17.2 billion cubic feet (Bcf) have de
Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Thursday it plans to build two small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities to fuel locomotives owned by Russian Railways. To remind, a unit of Gazprom began supplying LNG last year to three locomotives owned by Russian Railways. However, according
Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona and its transport suppliers have allocated 4 million euros ($5m) in 2018 towards adding 40 liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered trucks. The trucks will be deployed in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. They will join the 7 gas-powered vehicles that have already been o
French energy giant Total and Papua New Guinea’s Kumul Petroleum recently signed a binding heads of agreement to jointly market their shares of production from the proposed Papua LNG export project. Under the deal, the duo will negotiate a shareholders’ agreement for an incorporated joint venture to
A keel laying ceremony was held on February 1 for Sirius Shipping’s LNG-ready oil and chemical tanker at China’s Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding. The vessel is the first of two ice-class 7999 dwt tankers with the Evolution design ordered by the Swedish company back in 2016. Sirius said then that the vess
Trinidad and Tobago’s liquefied natural gas production rose 14 percent year-on-year in December to 2.6 million cubic meters. This was the highest monthly LNG production since March in 2015 when Atlantic LNG’s Point Fortin facility produced 2.68 million cubic meters, according to the data by Trinidad
Mexico, South Korea and China are the biggest buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from US shale gas, according to the data from the Department of Energy. These three countries took almost half of the total LNG volumes that have been produced at Cheniere’s Sabine liquefaction plant in the
Australian LNG operator Woodside is raising $2.5 billion ($1.96 billion) from shareholders to fund its purchase of an additional stake in Western Australia’s Scarborough gas field. Woodside said on Wednesday it had agreed to pay $744 million for ExxonMobil’s 50-percent stake in the Scarborough field
Qatar Petroleum, the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas, laid out long-term plans to strengthen its position as top LNG exporter and boost its international presence. The new corporate strategy and core values were designed to firmly place the company on the road to realizing its visi
