Malaysia International Shipping Corp., the Asian nation’s liquefied natural gas and energy fleet owner, has named a new LNG carrier as it progresses with floating and onshore expansion.
Ichthys LNG, the project being developed near Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, said it had entered the final phase of construction after the last three of 230 modules needed to build the onshore processing facilities arrived at the site where 8,000 workers are currently employed.
LNG Ltd., the Australian developer of two LNG export projects, said that while it had secured all necessary regulatory approvals for the construction of both its plants, located in the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, it was still holding fire in the current slow…
Samsung Heavy Industries said it won an order to build two new liquefied natural gas carriers, giving a boost to the South Korean shipyard engineering industry in the midst of a downturn.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), the Japanese LNG and tanker fleet owner, has completed its entry into the Emas Chiyoda Subsea company, giving Asia a world-class player in the market.
Elengy, the operator of three French LNG import terminals, said it had improved its LNG truck-loading contract, allowing more flexibility and access to its loading stations at the Atlantic coast terminal of Montoir de Bretagne and at Fos Tonkin near the Mediterranean port of Marseille.
Fluxys Belgium, the owner of the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas import terminal, said it may build a third jetty for small-scale LNG carriers as earnings showed a fall in large vessels delivering to the facility was offset by truck-loadings soaring by almost 40 percent.
The provincial government of the Canadian Province of British Columbia said it was not prepared to offer better tax deals just to get the NorthWest LNG project built and to offset the high expected costs of 190 conditions imposed by the federal government.
Teekay LNG Partners, the US liquefied natural gas fleet holding company of the Canadian-based shipping line listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has begun an offering that will test the appetite for LNG shipping shares with long-term charters.
The Chinese shipbuilder, Wison Offshore and Marine, has completed performance testing in the port of Nantong on a floating natural gas liquefaction hull ordered by Belgian shipping company Exmar for a project in the South American nation of Colombia that has now been cancelled.