LNG

The Rio Grande LNG export plant proposed for a 984-acre site in the Port of Brownsville in Texas has been issued with a notice to proceed by regulators with the implementation plan and site preparation as well as equipment mobilization.

Dec 10 (LNGJ) - Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French LNG technology designer of containment systems, confirmed its growing portfolio of contracts for LNG bunkering vessels. The Chinese company Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding will use GTT-designed tanks for the latest vessel ordered by Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines.

   The vessel will have total cargo tank capacity of 18,600 cubic metres and will have GTT’s Mark III system. It will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2021 and be chartered by French energy major Total.

  “This new LNG bunker vessel project demonstrates strengthened interest from ship-owners for the use of LNG as marine fuel and contributes to the development of the associated supply chain,” said Philippe Berterottière, Chairman and Chief Executive.