LNG Shipping

Samsung Heavy Industries have secured a contract for two LNG carriers on BOD approval term.

About 30 upstream oil and gas projects are expected to be approved around the world this year.

Exelon Generation has announced an agreement to purchase the Everett Marine/Distrigas LNG import terminal.

BP is targeting shipping 119 cargoes of LNG from its Tangguh project in Indonesia's West Papua province this year.

Qatargas and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for world-class LNG solutions.

Petronas subsidiary Malaysia LNG has successfully delivered its first LNG to Japan’s Hokuriku Electric Power Co.

Tokyo Gas is expecting that destination-flexible LNG shipment contracts will transform the Asian LNG market.

An LNG tanker has docked at the Papua New Guinea export terminal operated by ExxonMobil.

General Dynamics NASSCO has started constructing the second of two LNG-capable containerships ordered by Matson Navigation Co.

During a meeting on 29 March 2018, the Board of Directors of EXMAR reviewed the results for the year ending 31 December 2017.

China’s desire for LNG is growing and China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group is working with FortisBC to export Canadian LNG to help meet that demand.

Visiongain has calculated that the LNG Carrier market will see a capital expenditure (CAPEX) of US$11.2 billion in 2018.

Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems with a FLNG vessel to be built in South Korea.

Uyeno Transtech Ltd., Sumitomo Corporation, and Yokohama-Kawasaki International Port Corporation have concluded a memorandum on conducting a joint study on ship-to-ship LNG bunkering.

Brazil’s LNG imports sank 75% as production jumped.