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Top news of the week December 31, 2018 – January 5, 2019

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Pagbilao LNG facility (Image courtesy of EWC) Philippines: EWC granted DoE permit for Pagbilao LNG facility Energy World Corporation, the company developing LNG projects in Indonesia and the Philippines, has been granted a permit by the Department of Energy to build the LNG import facility at Pagbilao Grande Island. McDermott

Video: Teekay’s Eduart Toll transiting Northern Sea Route

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Image courtesy of Teekay Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer, Novatek, has deployed specific ice-class tankers to ship the chilled fuel from its Yamal LNG project via the Northern Sea Route. One of the vessels that made the first Northern Sea Route transit, carrying a Yamal LNG cargo to Asian-Pacific markets

PetroChina’s terminals receive record amount of LNG in 2018

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Rudong LNG storage tanks (Image courtesy of CNPC) State-controlled oil and gas producer PetroChina has received a record amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its three major import terminals during the last year.  PetroChina’s three LNG terminals – Tangshan, Dalian and Rudong – handled more than 15 million tonnes

Williams cleared to put Gulf Connector expansion into service

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zoomIllustration purposes only (Image courtesy of Cheniere) U.S. pipeline operator Williams has been given the permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to put the remaining portion of the Gulf Connector expansion project facilities in service. The Gulf Connector expansion project is a 475,000 dekatherm per day expansion of the Transco pipeline

Nordlask orders second LNG-fueled wellboat

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Image courtesy of NSK Ship Design Norwegian salmon producer Nordlaks says it has ordered the second live fish carrier equipped with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and battery hybrid propulsion at the Turkish Tersan shipyard.  It will be the company’s second wellboat, developed by Norway’s NSK Ship Design capable of carrying live salmon and

Daehan Shipbuilding gets DNV GL approval for LNG-powered Aframax design

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Image courtesy of DNV GL Classification society DNV GL has awarded Korean shipbuilder Daehan Shipbuilding an approval in principle for the design of an LNG-fuelled 115,000 dwt Aframax tanker. As the maritime industry continues to build on its efforts to reduce emissions, LNG as a ship fuel is attracting a great

Project Forward’s LNG-fueled bulkers granted South Korean patent

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zoomImage courtesy of Wärtsilä The Project Forward initiative led by Athens-based Arista Shipping, has been granted a patent from the South Korean Intellectual Property Office Examiner.   The patent-pending machinery arrangement consists of two low-pressure, four-stroke Wärtsilä 31Dual Fuel main engines and two PTO/PTIs, coupled on one shaft that drives a

Gastrade closes Alexandroupolis FSRU market test

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zoomImage courtesy of Gastrade Greece’s Gastrade said it has completed the first phase of the market test for the reservation of regasification capacity at the proposed floating LNG import terminal in Alexandroupolis. Twenty companies submitted expressions of interest for a total of up to 12.2 billion cubic meters/year of regasification capacity reservation at the

Philippines: EWC granted DoE permit for Pagbilao LNG facility

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Pagbilao LNG facility (Image courtesy of EWC) Energy World Corporation, the company developing LNG projects in Indonesia and the Philippines, has been granted a permit by the Department of Energy to build the LNG import facility at Pagbilao Grande Island. The permit was issued by the Philippine secretary of energy,

Sempra sheds non-utility U.S. natural gas storage facilities

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zoomImage courtesy of Sempra Energy U.S. energy company and LNG operator Sempra Energy said it has agreed to sell its non-utility U.S. natural gas storage facilities to an ArcLight Capital Partners company for $332 million. The facilities will become part of the Enstor natural gas storage platform, which ArcLight acquired in 2018, Sempra said

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