Tag: LNG

European Union regulators launched a new reference price for LNG, as part of plans to cap benchmark gas prices if they increase like they did last year after Russia curbed supply.

Capital Ship Management (Capital) received the newbuild 50,000 dwt chemical/product medium-range (MR) tank with LNG fuel-ready propulsion.

An LNG carrier ran aground in the Suez Canal, on February 1, but did not pose any threat to maritime traffic through the waterway.

December 2022 saw the classification of the 5,000-m3 LNG bunker vessel Haugesund Knutsen. A first of its kind, the vessel will bunker LNG in Spanish ports to gas fuel ships for Shell.

The critical role of LNG in meeting shipping’s decarbonization goals was detailed by Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO in a keynote speech to U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) at the Liquefied Gas and Alternative Fuels Senior Executive Forum.

GTT has obtained Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register, for the use of a digital solution to reduce activity assessment, in order to optimise the LNG membrane tank maintenance.

SEA-LNG shared its overview of LNG as a marine fuel in 2022-2023, highlighting how the shipping industry has advanced along the LNG pathway to decarbonisation in 2022 and outlines what progress is anticipated in 2023.

Houlder is collaborating with Blue Sea Power to develop three innovative floating LNG-to-power barges (FSRPs), to provide greener, lower emission baseload and peak power to the non-interconnected islands of Kos, Chios and Lesvos. 

Gasgrid Finland’s LNG floating terminal in the deep harbour at Inkoo, Finland is now fully ready for use and gas deliveries can begin.

MOL announced that the first of Japan's first two LNG-fueled ferries, the Sunflower Kurenai, owned by MOL and operated by its group company Ferry Sunflower Co, entered service on January 13.