LNG

The American Bureau of Shipping, the US classification society, has approved a new offshore repair method developed jointly by Japanese companies Modec and Toray Industries for hull structures of floating oil and gas production facilities essential to many LNG and energy projects.

The American Bureau of Shipping, the US maritime classification society, and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries are to cooperate on a next generation of LNG carriers in a joint development project signed at the Gastech 2019 conference in Houston.