Höegh FLNG, a fully owned subsidiary of Höegh LNG Holdings, has been awarded a pre-FEED study for a jetty-moored 2 mtpa FLNG near shore barge FLNG solution for a North American LNG export project. The study will be executed in 2nd half of 2013 with a potential for conducting a full FEED in 2014, Höe
The plate-cutting ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) shipyard for the latest generation ferry that Fincantieri is building for Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ), a Canadian company that operates in maritime passenger transport. The ferry, which is scheduled
Angola LNG has delivered its first cargo to Brazil. The 160,000 m3 cargo – which left Soyo aboard the SS SONANGOL SAMBIZANGA last month – has been safely unloaded at Petrobras’ regasification terminal in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. Commenting on the first cargo delivery Artur Pereira, CEO, Angola
The Dahej LNG terminal, owned by India’s biggest LNG importer Petronet LNG, will receive a cargo of LNG onboard the 154,800 cbm Aseem from Qatar on Saturday, shipping data reveals. Petronet LNG received the 1000th cargo at its Dahej LNG terminal in February this year The Dahej terminal in Gujarat is
Navigator Gas reports that it has entered into agreements to construct one 21,000 cubic meter semi-refrigerated ethylene gas carrier and two 22,000 cubic meter semi refrigerated gas carriers for a combined price of approximately $138 million. In addition, the Company has options to construct a furth
Belgium’s Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG on August 4, according to the Zeebrugge Port Authority. The Lusail LNG tanker, with a capacity of 145,663 cbm, is sailing from Qatar’s Ras Laffan port. The Zeebrugge terminal is operated by Fluxys LNG and has an
Wärtsilä’s axial waterjets power the ‘Francisco’, the world’s fastest high speed ferry and the first fast ferry to utilize liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. The vessel has successfully passed its sea trials and is now ready to commence commercial operations. Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leadin
The latest LNG cargo to be loaded at the Peru LNG terminal has been dispatched to Spain. The 173,600 cubic-meter Castillo de Santisteban departed from the Peru LNG terminal on Saturday, and it is due to arrive at the Bilbao LNG terminal on August 12. Spain’s Bilbao import terminal received an LNG ca
Qatargas announced that it has sold Qatar’s first ever cargo of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Malaysia. The cargo was sold to Petronas LNG Ltd of Malaysia and was loaded yesterday on-board the LNG Vessel ‘Seri Begawan’ at Ras Laffan Port. The cargo will be delivered to Malaysia’s first LNG receivin
“Qatar UK 2013 – Year of Culture” and Qatargas announced sending Ben Barbour, the Doha based, Msheireb resident artist from Qatar to the UK aboard the Q-Flex LNG vessel ‘Al Karaana’, owned by Nakilat and managed by Shell International Shipping and Trading Ltd, to South Hook, Wales – Europe’s largest
Argentina’s Bahía Blanca GasPort is due to receive a liquefied natural gas cargo on August 2, according to shipping data. The cargo, which was re-exported from Belgium’s Zeebrugge terminal on July 15, is being hauled by the 140,000 m3 Galicia Spirit. The Bahía Blanca GasPort is South America’s first
Environmentally-friendly cruise ferry MS Stavangerfjord has completed its maiden voyage. On the evening of Sunday, July 14, Captain Erik Johansen and his crew could at long last could say ‘welcome aboard’ to roughly 1,000 passengers who departed from Hirtshals, Denmark on a glorious summer day. The
The Al Ghuwairiya LNG carrier, with a capacity of 263,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal from Qatar on July 25, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21
One of the largest suction dredgers in the world, Inai Kenanga, is to be launched by Inai Kiara SDN BHD, the Malaysian shipping company. VULKAN Couplings has supplied six MESLU clutches for the shift gearboxes of the powerful sand pumps – these couplings are the largest that the company has ever bui
