India’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas Petronet LNG has bought an LNG spot cargo for November under the Platts West India Marker (WIM). S&P Global Platts, the provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets, said on Tuesday that the LNG cargo would be delivered
Carnival Cruise Line’s LNG-powered XL-class newbuild Mardi Gras headed out to sea trials on Monday morning, Finland-based shipbuilder Meyer Turku said. The ship’s operations will be tested at sea for the next 10 days, after which it will return to the shipyard for a little while longer, the shipyard added.
Norwegian energy giant Equinor has shut down its Hammerfest LNG export plant following a fire in an oil-powered turbine at the facility. Hammerfest LNG (Image: Einar Aslaksen/Equinor) Equinor said the incident occurred on Monday at about 15:30h local time with no injuries reported. Images on local media showed smoke rising
Turkey’s floating power plant company Karpower International (Karpowership) has begun operation on its first LNG-to-Power project offshore Indonesia. Karpowership said that the powership Zeynep Sultan began power generation using LNG on 20 September after the successful conversion of its first two dual-fuel engines. The LNG is converted from liquid to
European short sea carrier UECC will use its dual-fuel LNG PCTC vessels to deliver new trams for the City of Oslo, Norway. The first tram was loaded on the UECC dual-fuel LNG PCTC Auto Eco in Pasajes, Spain on September 11 of this year, then transshipped onto the conventionally powered M/V Spica Leader
U.S. project development company Sycar, along with other private companies, has received authorisation from the Government of Ecuador to import industrial gas, gasoline, natural gas, diesel, jet fuel, avgas, absorbents, and other derivatives. Sycar said last week that the authorisation, received on 24 September 2020, for importing was for liquids
LNG bunker tank being into Hapag-Lloyd’s Sajir; Image courtesy: Hapag-Lloyd The world’s first conversion of a large container ship to LNG as fuel has hit a major milestone as an LNG bunker tank was lifted into Hapag-Lloyd’s Sajir boxship at the Chinese shipyard Huarun Dadong Dockyard Co. The 6,500-cbm LNG
Provider of floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) Excelerate Energy has reached a record-breaking send-out capacity of 1.06 billion cubic feet (bcf) of natural gas on its FSRU Experience. Excelerate said that the 1.06 bcf send-out capacity was reached on September 16. According to the company, the capacity was an
Chevron’s Australian unit has signed another deal with aluminium producer Alcoa for the delivery of domestic natural gas from its LNG projects. Alcoa’s Pinjarra refinery in Western Australia (Image: Alcoa) Starting in January 2024, Chevron said it would supply Alcoa with an additional 37 petajoules of equity domestic gas over
Australia’s Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources stated in its Resources and Energy Quarterly that the country’s LNG shipments dropped by 12 per cent year-on-year and noted the pressure on the country’s LNG export volumes in recent months. The wave of LNG investment in Australia saw over $200 billion