LNG Shipping

GasLog Ltd. recently held a milestone steel cutting ceremony for one of its latest LNG newbuilds at Samsung Heavy Industries.

Møkster Shipping AS has been awarded a new contract by Equinor Energy AS for its dual-fuel platform supply vessel (PSV), ‘Stril Pioner’.

Nauticor and Fassmer have begun a new period of cooperation in LNG newbuilding and retrofitting projects with the initial LNG bunkering of the newbuild research vessel ‘Atair’.

Meyer Werft has floated out its 50th cruise ship, the 'Iona', which is being built by the shipyard on behalf of UK-based P&O Cruises.

Four LNG tankers en route to North Asia have been diverted due to the Coronavirus outbreak in China.

The keel of Wasaline’s new LNG-fuelled ferry was recently laid at Rauma shipyard in Finland.

According to Reuters, Qatari energy companies are actively engaged in accommodating both rescheduling and re-routing requests on some deliveries of Qatari oil and gas cargoes to China after the coronavirus outbreak.

According to Reuters, US Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette has said that US companies are interested in expanding Portugal’s deepwater port of Sines, due to its strategic position to receive US LNG exports.

Nigeria LNG has agreed a 10 year LNG supply deal with Galp Trading SA.

Rystad Energy is expecting LNG trading between the US and China to remain low, despite also predicting that tariffs on trade between the two countries will be removed in the near future.

After the signing of a trade deal between Washington and Beijing, Gazprom is hopeful that China will purchase the majority of US-produced LNG cargoes, not Europe.

Kosmos Energy and its partners have signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with BP Gas Marketing Ltd.

According to Reuters, two industry sources have reported that Gail (India) has issued a swap tender to buy and sell LNG cargoes.

Sovcomflot has announced that SMART LNG, LLC – a joint venture of Sovcomflot and NOVATEK – has signed an agreement with VEB.RF Group for lease financing of four Arc7 icebreaking LNG carriers for the Arctic LNG 2 project.

Pekka Pakkanen, NAPA Shipping Solutions, Finland, discusses how to use better data to tackle shipping’s most complicated voyages.