LNG

Cheniere has announced that the first commissioning cargo of LNG has been shipped from its Corpus Christi liquefaction facility in Texas.

Total has announced that LNG exports from the third train of the Yamal LNG project in Russia have commenced.

Aker Arctic has announced that the naming ceremony for the Arctic condensate tanker Boris Sokolov has been held at Guangzhou Shipyard International.

The Alfa Laval Gas Combustion Unit (GCU) has been chosen for boil-off gas management on more than half of the LNG carriers built during 2018.

GTT has announced that it has received an order from a Korean shipyard concerning the tank design of two 174 000 m3 LNG carriers.

Chevron Corporation has named Navin Mahajan as Vice President and Treasurer, and Dale Walsh as Vice President of Corporate Affairs.

Outokumpu has announced that Pia Aaltonen-Forsell has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective 1 March 2019.

NYK has signed long-term contracts with DGI, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, for the charter of three newly built LNG carriers.

Skangas has announced that it has officially be renamed Gasum, helping to strengthen the Gasum brand in the Nordic countries.

Enagás has released a statement claiming that the CORE LNGas hive project has successfully carried out the first pilot test of multimodal transport of LNG in Europe.

Australia has overtaken Qatar as the world’s largest LNG exporter for the month of November 2018.

The global LNG carriers market is expected to post a CAGR of nearly 5% during the period 2019 – 2023.

India’s Petronet LNG is seeking to sign a 1 million t US LNG purchase deal in a year’s time.

Mitsui has announced that its LNG carrier, ‘LNG Fukurokuju’, rescued a castaway 330 km off New Ireland, Papua New Guinea in late November.

The LNG tanker ‘Seri Cemar’ is due to make a delivery at the Isle of Grain terminal in the UK on 11 December.