US-based LNG equipment maker, Air Products has won a contract to supply equipment for Eni’s Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility to be located offshore Mozambique. Under the contract, Air Products will supply its medium and high purity nitrogen package for the FLNG facility. Th
Dutch maker of cryogenic equipment Crynorm has completed a liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel tank that will be installed onboard Van der Kamp’s hopper dredger Ecodelta. The LNG fuel tank was heading on Monday for the Dutch yard Barkmeijer where the Ecodelta is being built, Crynorm said in a statement
US congressman Bill Johnson on Monday announced two pieces of legislation related to American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. The first named “Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act (H.R. 4605)” would allow domestic LNG suppliers “to compete freely on the world market,” U.S. Republican Senato
The European Investment Bank (EIB), Societe Generale and Brittany Ferries said they have signed the first green maritime financing under EIB’s 750 million euros ($883m) Green Shipping Guarantee programme. The new vessel “Honfleur” will be Brittany Ferries’ first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered f
Nordic LNG supplier Skangas has signed a letter of intent with National Grid to source liquefied natural gas at the Grain LNG import terminal in the UK. According to Skangas, with this deal, the LNG company becomes the first small-scale LNG supplier to enter into such an agreement with a UK-based im
US-based LNG engineer, Chart said that its unit has recently commissioned a fourth permanent fueling station for natural gas vehicles in Finland. The station, owned and operated by Gasum, is located close to Helsinki Vantaa airport and is further helping to develop the country’s natural gas vehicle
South Korea is moving forward with plans to promote the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for vessels in a push for green shipping and to comply with the International Maritime Organization’s sulfur cap. The country’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said in a statement it will sign a colla
Peruvian natural gas liquefaction and export plant at Pampa Melchorita dispatched a cargo of the chilled fuel to Spain. According to the shipping data by the state-owned Perupetro, Sovcomflot’s 170,200-cbm SCF Mitre loaded a cargo on December 5 and set course for Spain. It was the first cargo shippe
Dutch company OOS International Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Merchants Industry Holdings to design and construct a new semi-submersible crane vessel, claiming the vessel to be the largest of its kind in the world. The 225m vessel named OOS Zeelandia will have two cranes
Russia’s Novatek, the operator of the recently commissioned giant Yamal LNG export project, said on Monday that the first cargo from the Arctic facility had been sold to a UK-based LNG unit of Malaysian energy giant Petronas. The first LNG cargo containing 170 thousand cubic meters of the chilled fu
A unit of Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured a contract to work on Eni’s Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility to be located offshore Mozambique. Keppel Shipyard won a contract from mooring specialist SOFEC for the fabrication of a turret mooring system for the new
The first cargo of liquefied natural gas from the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG project in the Russian Arctic is heading towards Europe, according to the China state energy group CNPC. CNPC is a shareholder in the giant LNG export project, Russia’s second such facility, along with Total each company ha
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) should not lead to weakening of existing positions the country has in the pipeline gas market. Putin was speaking during a meeting on LNG exports following his visit to Novatek’s Yamal LNG export plant and th
France’s Total said that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas from the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG project is ready to depart the facility in the Russian Arctic.
