LNG

TravelCenters of America, in partnership with Dutch major Shell, announced the opening of LNG truck fueling lanes and repair services at a TravelCenter location in California.

Canadian resources and mining company Teck Resources is piloting LNG as fuel conversion for six of its owned haul trucks at its Fording River steelmaking coal operation in British Columbia.

Denmark-based shipowner Evergas has ordered four INEOS MAX 32,000 cubic metre liquefied ethane/ethylene/LNG carriers for construction with assistance from JHW Engineering & Contracting.

Last week Lithuanian terminal operator Klaipėdos Nafta started a joint venture with German LNG fuel supplier Bomin Linde LNG that will build and operate an LNG bunker supply vessel at the state-owned seaport of Klaipeda in Lithuania.

Five ports within the Baltic ports organization —Turku, Naantali and HaminaKotka in Finland, and Stockholm in Sweden — have joined with a Finnish ferry operator Viking Line to implement services for ‘cold ironing’, scrubbers, waste, and LNG bunkering.

Wespact Midstream, Vancouver LLC has invited public comment online at the website of the BC Environmental Assessment office on its plan to build a marine jetty for berthing and transferring LNG to marine barges and carriers at Tilbury Marine Jetty Project.

Titan LNG, the Dutch LNG supplier for the industrial and shipping sector, and Dutch small scale LNG technology company Osomo Projects have signed a partnership agreement to build the first bio-LNG production facility in Germany.

LNG truck manufacturer Iveco has plans to shift its dealership structure, creating new dutch-foucssed business from next year, Iveco NLS BV, responsible for sales and marketing operations related Iveco Iveco vehicles and parts.

The new studies, performed by DNV GL, focus on the technical, safety and operational risk aspects of LNG bunkering, as well as loading and unloading.

HM Government of Gibraltar has clarified that current LNG plans are only for power a facility only, and future LNG bunkering plans remain “some way away” from fruition.