LNG

July 27 (LNGJ) - Wison Offshore and Marine, the Chinese engineering and shipbuilding company with facilities in the ports of Nantong and Shanghai, has signed a technical service agreement with Canadian company Western LNG for a new floating project to be developed in British Columbia. Wison will come up with a basic design for the vessel and carry out front-end engineering and design. Western said its development activities are supported by certain funds of the US private equity firm, Apollo Global Management. “The team at Western, with the support of Apollo, is looking forward to continuing work with Wison and our other partners to successfully deliver a mid-scale greenfield LNG export facility,” said Davis Thames, the Western company’s President and Chief Executive.

French container ship company CMA CGM plans to use the Dutch port of Rotterdam as its primary bunkering port when its new LNG-powered fleet of nine vessels start being delivered by Chinese shipyards from 2020.

The 140,620 cubic metres capacity carrier “Galicia Spirit” will deliver a cargo on June 14 to the new Chinese Qidong import terminal owned by Guanghui Energy from the floating LNG hull “Hilli Episeyo” that began production in mid-March off the port of Kribi in Cameroon.