South Korea, the world’s second biggest buyer of LNG, is due to get a liquefied natural gas cargo from Qatar, according to shipping data. The 135,000 cbm Hyundai Technopia departed from Ras Laffan in Qatar on Friday and it is expected to arrive at the Tongyeong LNG terminal on February 16. Tongyeong
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea secured a US$410 million deal to build two LNG tankers for an unnamed European company, DSME said in a filling to the stock exchange. Daewoo expects to deliver the LNG tankers by 2016. DSME is one of the world’s leading shipyards for the
Qatargas-chartered LNG vessels recently carried out the first ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG between two Q-Flex type LNG tankers. The vessels were anchored in Singapore, according to an e-mailed statement sent to LNG World News. “The transfer of 211,000 cbm, which was conducted utilising in-hous
Fendercare Marine said it has provided STS support services for the first open sea’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) STS operations for two of the world’s leading Gas Majors. Fendercare Marine has carried out STS operations since 1995 and annually conduct almost 3,000 STS operations globally from over 4
GAIL’s chairman B.C. Tripathi said on Wednesday that the company plans to import 32 to 33 cargoes of LNG in the 2014/15 fiscal year that starts from April. He also said that GAIL is operating its Dabhol LNG import terminal at only 0.8 mtpa capacity. “Dabhol can operate at 3.5 million tonnes (a year)
The shipping company Aktien-Gesellschaft EMS (AG EMS) and Bomin Linde LNG have signed the first contract for the delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Germany. It proposes supplying environmentally friendly LNG as fuel to the MS Ostfriesland passenger ferry operated by AG EMS starting in mid-20
Zeus, the organiser of the World LNG Fuels conference, which took place on January 21-23 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, announced the LNG fueled ferry Francisco as the winner of the 2014 Black Diamond Award. The ferry, owned and operated by Buquebus, operates on the Rio de la p
The Al Deebel LNG tanker, with a capacity of 145,700 cubic meters, is expected to arrive at Belgium’s Zeebrugge LNG terminal from Qatar on February 13, according to the Port of Zeebrugge website. The Zeebrugge LNG terminal, operated by Fluxys, serves as a gateway to supply LNG to Northwestern Europe
The Aamira LNG carrier, with a capacity of 266,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook import terminal on February 1, port data shows. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG per annum and is capable of delivering 21 Bcm of gas a year into the UK’s […]
The Petrobras LNG Regasification Terminal in Bahia brings greater flexibility and assurances to natural gas supplies in Brazil, with regasification capacity now up to 41 million m³/day. At precisely 1:13 pm on Friday (January 24, 2014), Petrobras added to the Brazilian gas pipeline network the first
TGE Marine Gas Engineering signed the contracts for one firm and three optional vessels for the design and supply of the cargo handling systems, high pressure fuel gas systems including LNG fuel tanks and tank material packages for the next generation of ethane/ethylene carriers of 35,000 m3 capacit
On Thursday 23 January, the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, DCI DREDGE XXI, was handed over within the contractual delivery date to Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) at IHC Merwede’s Kinderdijk shipyard in The Netherlands. The Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance was signed on behalf of DC
The keel laying of the world’s first LNG Hybrid Barge took place at a ceremony held at the ”SAM Shipbuilding & Machinery“ shipyard in Komárno, Slovakia in the second week of the new year. In the presence of representatives of the shipyard, AIDA Cruises, Becker Marine Systems and Hybrid Port Energy (
Qatar Shipping, a subsidiary of Qatar Navigation, said it has received a 12-year, $425 million loan from a consortium of international banks. The loan will be used to refinance existing debt facilities on four LNG tankers – Fuwairit, Lusail, Al Thakhira and Al Deebel, the company said in a statement
