LNG

Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French designer of LNG storage tanks for ships and for onshore, has chosen the Gastech Conference in Milan to launch a new corporate image and logo to reflect its clean-fuel role and broadening activities in storage and smart shipping.

Jan 5 (LNGJ) - Capital Gas Ship Management Corp., the Greek company based in the port of Piraeus, has taken delivery of the LNG carrier newbuild, the “Aristidis I”, from the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea. The “Arisidis I” has been chartered to BP Shipping of the UK for a period up to 12 years.

   “With cargo capacity of 174,000 cubic metres, the vessel is highly efficient, propelled with XDF engines and equipped with the latest available technologies, including an air lubrication system and increased filling limits (up to 93.5 percent),” said Capital Gas. “It is the second of seven sister ships to be delivered between 2020-2023,” the company added.

Qatar Petroleum has signed the largest LNG shipbuilding agreements in history to secure more than 100 ships valued at around $20 billion to transport planned additional production volumes from the Arab Gulf North Field expansion.