LNG

Keppel Offshore and Marine, the Singapore shipbuilding and conversions company, has signed a contract for the first LNG floating regasification and storage unit that will be deployed in the Latin American country of El Salvador and will also build the largest US hopper-dredger for the Gulf of Mexico.

Keppel Offshore and Marine of Singapore said its US subsidiary based in the Texas port of Brownsville won a contract worth more than US$400 million from Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii for the construction of two liquefied natural gas-fueled containerships.