LNG

Registro Italiano Navale (Rina), the Italian maritime classification society, said it was chosen by Italian energy company Eni to certify the design and fabrication of subsea structures and equipment for the Coral South floating LNG project offshore the southeast African nation of Mozambique.

Australian LNG export projects in the state of Queensland led by Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and Santos have assured Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that they will boost natural gas supplies to the East Coast in 2018 to help avert an energy crisis.

Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French LNG maritime storage technology company, said it had decided to re-validate some aspects of its Mark V tank system after the discovery of a technical concern.

Russian fleet owner and operator Sovcomflot along with oil company Rosneft and the country’s new Zvezda Shipbuilding complex have signed a set of agreements that entail the construction of five Aframax tankers with LNG propulsion that will also lead to infrastructure development to allow ships to be bunkered with LNG…