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TMS Cardiff Gas takes delivery of another LNG carrier

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Greece-based shipping company TMS Cardiff Gas has taken delivery of another LNG tanker built by South Korea’s shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. Bonito LNG (Image courtesy of TMS Cardiff Gas) The newest addition to the shipping company’s fleet is the third in the same series and a sister vessel to recently

PipeChina breaks ground on LNG terminal

18 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

State-owned China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network (PipeChina) has started building a liquefied natural gas import terminal in China’s Shandong province. The LNG facility located in coastal city Longkou is the first infrastructure project of PipeChina since its establishment last year. CNOOC transferred the LNG project’s management rights to the

Canada: IAAC calls for comments on Gazoduq’s LNG pipeline project

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The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada has issued a call for public comments on Gazoduq’s LNG feeder pipeline in Québec. Image courtesy of Gazoduq The Québec-based Gazpduq intends to build a 780 km long pipeline between northeastern Ontario and Saguenay. This proposed project would connect TC Energy’s existing main natural

Finnish duo to study carbon-neutral biogas production

18 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and its compatriot Vantaa Energy have signed an agreement on a joint concept feasibility study for a power-to-gas facility. Image courtesy of Wärtsilä The facility would be located at Vantaa Energy’s waste-to-energy -plant in the city of Vantaa, Wärtsilä said in its statement. The power-to-gas

Total buys EDP’s assets in Spain

18 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

French energy company and LNG player Total has agreed to buy some power and gas assets in Spain from Portugal’s EDP. The deal includes 2.5 million B2C customers and two gas-fired combined cycle power plants, which represent an electricity generation capacity of nearly 850 megawatts, Total said on Monday. EDP

Regulator blocks Pieridae Energy’s asset buy from Shell

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Alberta’s energy regulator has blocked a deal between Canada’s Pieridae Energy, the developer of the Goldboro LNG export project, and Shell’s Canadian unit citing clean-up concerns. Pieridae closed a deal worth C$190 million ($134.9m) in October last year to buy Shell’s midstream and upstream gas assets in the southern Alberta

French-Japanese LNG carrier starts charter with EDF

18 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

A brand new liquefied natural gas carrier owned by France LNG Shipping gas has started a long-term charter with a unit of state-controlled utility EDF. Image courtesy of NYK France LNG Shipping is a joint venture consisting of Japanese shipping giant NYK and Geogas LNG, a company controlled by LPG

COVID-19 could be driving force to decarbonise shipping before 2050

15 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

The coronavirus pandemic is opening up many new opportunities for the shipping industry, Cristina Aleixendri, COO at bound4blue, said during a video conference hosted by SMM.   “The coronavirus could be the driving force enabling us to achieve the decarbonisation goals even before 2050,” Aleixendri pointed out, explaining that one possible

Shell in Dutch, French LNG bunkering firsts

15 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

Royal Dutch Shell has taken part in two liquefied natural gas bunkering operations in the French port of Marseille and in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. Eagle Blane and Cardissa in the Port of Rotterdam (Image courtesy of AET) In the Port of Marseille Fos, Shell and Carnival carried out

US EXIM bank amends Mozambique LNG loan

15 May No Comments gregsamuel_e5x9azx4 LNG World News

The Export-Import Bank of the United States said Thursday it has amended its previously approved loan for the Total-led $20 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas export project. The bank approved a loan for up to $5 billion in September last year to support the export of U.S. goods and services

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