For illustration purposes only (Image courtesy of Tokyo Gas) Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions, a unit of Tokyo Gas, and four Japanese partners said on Tuesday they have decided to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Sumitomo Chemical’s plant in Ehime prefecture in western Japan. The other partners are
The STS LNG operation (Image courtesy of Port of Bilbao) The first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation via a ship-to-ship method has taken place in the Spanish port of Bilbao. LNG-fueled cement carrier, Ireland, received 90 cubic meters of the chilled fuel from the Oizmendi bunker vessel on February
Wheatstone LNG plant at Ashburton North (Image courtesy of Chevron) US-based energy company Chevron, the operator of the Wheatstone LNG export project, has reportedly sold a first gas condensate cargo from the LNG facility in Western Australia. The 650,000-barrel gas condensate cargo will be loaded in February and has been sold to
Cesi Wenzhou (Image courtesy of Cosco Shipping Energy) Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding delivered the 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier CESI Wenzhou to its owners on January 31. The dual fuel CESI Wenzhou is the fifth Australia Pacific LNG-dedicated tanker in a series of a total of six carriers that
Image courtesy of Höegh LNG Hyundai Heavy scores $500 million contract for Steelhead LNG’s export project in Canada South Korean shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries said it had won a contract worth about $500 million for a liquefaction unit to be used for Steelhead LNG’s Kwispaa LNG export project in
Gorgon LNG plant (Image courtesy of Chevron) Chevron, the US-based energy company and the operator of the giant Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects in Australia, reported a surge in its fourth-quarter profit, mainly due to the recent U.S. tax reform. Chevron is the second US company, following ExxonMobil, to post a surge in its earnings on Friday due to benefits
Image courtesy of Peru LNG The Peruvian liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Pampa Melchorita shipped five cargoes of the fuel in January. According to the shipping data provided by the state-owned Perupetro, the five vessels in total loaded some 0.34 million tonnes. Two cargoes were shipped to Japan
Image courtesy of Tokyo Electric Japanese imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) reportedly hit their highest in at least five years in January. Japan, the world’s largest LNG buyer, imported nearly 8.7 million tonnes last month, up 8 percent from December and the largest volume since at least January, 2013,
LNG carrier Pan Americas (Image courtesy of Cosco Shipping) Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding delivered this week to its owners the Pan Americas LNG carrier, the second of four vessels set to transport liquefied natural gas from the QCLNG project in Australia to China. The 174,000-cbm LNG carrier named Pan Americas