LNG news updates

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd has completed the acquisition of the 2013-built LNG carrier, Golar Seal.

Kontrol Technologies Corp. will provide emission monitoring and analytics to its previously announced customer in the LNG market.

US exports of LNG increased by 9% compared with 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Natural Gas Monthly.

Sarens is working alongside Qatar Fabrication Company W.L.L to build several offshore jackets for Qatar Gas.

Nakilat and HSD Engine have signed a long-term service agreement for the provision of spares and maintenance services necessary to maintain the reliability of engines on board Nakilat’s wholly owned LNG vessels.

Matson Navigation Company will convert the main engine aboard its container ship, ‘Kaimana Hila’, from a MAN B&W S90ME-C10.5 unit to a dual-fuel ME-GI unit capable of running on LNG.

Sempra Infrastructure has reached a positive final investment decision for the development, construction, and operation of the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Texas, the US.

JGC Corporation and Hyundai Engineering & Construction have been awarded the FEED and EPC estimation contract for the Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea by ExxonMobil.

The Methane Abatement in Maritime Innovation Initiative announced seven new members at a Lloyd’s Register LNG Forum event in Doha, Qatar.

EnerMech Canada has been selected to deliver its specialist mechanical pre-commissioning and commissioning services to a large LNG facility in British Columbia, Canada.

SEA-LNG recognises the importance of continuing to drive global infrastructure build-out to improve availability of LNG bunkering to the rapidly growing LNG-fuelled fleet.

Discussions on the future of the LNG sector were held during two days at the 9th International LNG Congress in Dusseldorf, Germany on 6 – 7 March 2023.

Cedar LNG has received its Environmental Assessment Certificate from the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office, and has signed a MoU with ARC Resources for a long-term liquefaction services agreement.

HAM Group has opened in Benavente, Zamora, a new service station for LNG and CNG, located next to the A-6, one of the six radial highways in Spain.

Performance Shipping Inc. has signed a shipbuilding contract with China Shipbuilding Trading Company Ltd and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Ltd for the construction of a 114 000 DWT LNG ready LR2 Aframax product/crude oil tanker.

The M/V Seaboard Blue was bunkered at PortMiami using LNG as a fuel on 12 March 2023, marking the first time in PortMiami’s history that a cargo vessel was bunkered there using LNG as a fuel.

KN has been chosen by Snam FSRU Italia to cooperate in the start-up of a greenfield FSRU-based LNG terminal project in the port of Piombino.

The non-binding market screening procedure helps to identify the demand for additional regasification capacity of the FSRU terminal.

Exports of LNG will continue to drive growth in US natural gas exports over the next two years, according to the U.S Energy Information Administration’s recent Short-Term Energy Outlook.

Freeport LNG has received approval from FERC and PHMSA to restart Train 1, the final train of Freeport LNG’s three train liquefaction facility to receive restart authorisation.

PETRONAS, through PETRONAS Marine brand, has inaugurated an LNG bunkering business with long-term partner, TIGER GAS.

NYK and FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd, have completed the first bunkering to an LNG-fuelled PCTC vessel in Singapore.

TotalEnergies has announced the launch of the fully integrated FEED for the Papua LNG project.

ClassNK has issued four approvals in principle to GTT following its latest development projects in alternative fuels.