March 19 (LNGJ) - Russian fleet owner Sovcomflot and Royal Dutch Shell broke new ground with the completion of the first Aframax tanker fuelling using LNG in the US. Sovcomflot’s vessel, the “Gagarin Prospect”, named after the first human in space Yuri Gagarin and which is on long-term charter to Shell, was en route from Corpus Christi in Texas to Europe.
“The ship received 1,075 cubic metres of marine LNG from Shell ‘s chartered bunkering barge, the “Q-LNG 4000”, outside the Port of Canaveral in Florida,” said Sovcomflot. “This represented the first ever ship-to-ship LNG fuelling of a large capacity Aframax tanker in the US,” the Russian company added.
