In case of both main cargo pumps failure in an LNG ship 🚨, you can discharge the cargo by using :

For Membrane Type 👉 Emergency cargo pump stored on deck 🚢.

For Moss Type 👉 By pressurising the tank after changing the MARVs settings 📊.

The U.S. has become the first country to export 10 million metric tonnes (mmt) of liquefied natural gas in a single month 💧.

The U.S. exported a record 10.1 mmt of the liquid fuel in October, up from a revised figure of 9.1 mmt in September 📈.

Already the world’s largest LNG exporter 🥇, the U.S. has been ramping up sales with four record-setting months in 2025. The surge was led by the start-up of Venture Global’s Plaquemines export plant and the ramp-up of Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Stage 3 project.

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Japan, the world’s No.2 LNG importer, plans to buy liquefied natural gas for emergency reserves 🚨 on a monthly basis from January, instead of buying only during peak demand periods, to guard against supply shocks 💧.

Japan will ensure at least one LNG cargo – about 70,000 metric tons 💧 – is secured each month to mitigate supply risks.

For the year, that means Japan will buy at least 1️⃣2️⃣ cargoes, or 840,000 tons of LNG, for its emergency reserve, up from about 210,000 tons in each of the past two years 📈.

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A Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from the country’s so-called shadow fleet, 👉 the Buran, is battling thickening sea ice along the Northern Sea Route.

The Buran departed from the Koryak FSU in Kamchatka after offloading its cargo on October 26. It reached the Northern Sea Route north of the Bering Strait on October 29 and for the past days has been struggling to find a path through early winter sea ice 🚨. 

Satellite data and maritime tracking services show the Buran 🚢 probing the ice edge in the Chukchi Sea repeatedly traveling north to south apparently searching for a path through the ice.

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The 315m Q-Flex LNGC Al Thumama successfully outran pirates approaching it in a speedboat off the coast of Somalia on Friday 🚨, as worries grow of a resurgence of piracy after years of calm.

The master reported that the tanker, which was en route from Ras Laffan, Qatar to Swinoujscie, Poland via the Cape of Good Hope, outran the speedboat 🔴

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NYK Group has said its ongoing fleet investments will see its LNG carrier (LNGC) fleet of vessels hit 130 📈 by the company’s 2028 fiscal year. 

In 2024, NYK listed its LNG carrier fleet as being composed of 👉 78 owned vessels and 13 chartered vessels, for a total of 91 LNGCs operating under its energy transport business.

In September 2025, NYK Line said it would expand its LNG carrier fleet by about 50% by early 2029 🚀, increasing the total number of vessels to more than 130 including ships owned and operated by the group.

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HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, believes more than 100 LNG carrier newbuildings 🚀 will be needed based on the surge in approvals for new liquefaction projects this year.

Answering questions about the order outlook for LNG carriers on a quarterly results call, officials from HD KSOE — HD Hyundai Group’s shipyard holding company — said this year has been “quite disappointing” 🚨.

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Golar LNG has hooked up with three shipyards 🤝 to obtain ideas on pricing, delivery and payment terms for what would be its fourth 4️⃣ floating LNG unit.

Golar has entered into contracts with the yards for its Mk I and Mk II LNG carrier-to-FLNG conversion and its Mk III FLNG newbuilding designs 🚢.

Competition for long lead items from industrial applications, including AI data centres 💻, is increasingly affecting delivery timelines.

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China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) recently took delivery of a new LNG carrier 🚢 that will be operated by its wholly owned subsidiary CNOOC Gas and Power Singapore Trading and Marketing.

Like her earlier sisters Greenergy Ocean and Greenergy Pearl, which were handed over in 2024, 👉 Greenergy Moon belongs to a series of six LNG carriers built for CNOOC by China State Shipbuilding Corporation subsidiary Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding 🏗.

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Energy company Adnoc’s investment arm XRG is hooking up with YPF and Eni 🤝 to develop the 30-mtpa Argentina LNG project.

The tie-up is part of XRG’s moves to build out a gas portfolio across the Americas. In September, it concluded a deal to buy an 11.7% stake in Phase 1 of the Rio Grande LNG project in Texas 🏭.

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Venture Global, a U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) sourced from North American basins, has executed a long-term LNG sales and purchase agreement (SPA) 🤝 with Spain’s Naturgy.

Under the deal, the Spanish firm will purchase 1 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG 💧 from Venture Global for 20 years starting in 2030. The U.S. company says this brings its long-term contracts signed in 2025 to 5.75 mtpa.

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Delfin LNG and Vitol have signed a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) heads of agreement (HoA) 🤝 with International Resources Holding (IRH), a mine-to-market platform.

The 20-year deal entails the purchase and sale of 1 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG 💧 from the floating LNG export facility off the coast of Louisiana, the United States, being developed by Delfin Midstream.

Delfin LNG will supply LNG on a free-on-board (FOB) basis to Vitol 🚢, which will act as the offtaker and deliver the volumes to IRH Global Trading (IRHGT), IRH’s global trading arm.

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Malaysia’s Petronas has signed a 20-year deal for one million tonnes per year of liquefaction capacity 💧 at the Cedar LNG project.

The deal gives Petronas, one of the largest natural gas producers in Canada 🤝, access to the planned natural gas export outlet on the B.C. north coast.

Cedar LNG is the liquefied natural gas facility in Kitimat 🏭, B.C., being developed by a partnership between Pembina and the Haisla Nation.

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AD Ports Group and Nimex Terminals have signed two long-term agreements 🤝 which include establishing LNG and LPG terminal hubs at the port and to provide the port with infrastructure required to fuel vessels 💧.

The agreements include the development of the UAE’s first private-sector Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) terminal hubs 🥇, that can accommodate large, long-haul gas carriers. 

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Edison and CMA CGM have completed the first ship-to-ship (STS) LNG bunkering 🥇 of a containership in Italy.

The milestone operation was conducted in the port of Trieste, where Edison’s 30,000 cubic meter LNG carrier Ravenna Knutsen 💧 refueled the CMA CGM Salamanque, an LNG-powered boxship deployed in the Mediterranean.

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Musel Energy Hub, the LNG plant in Gijón, Spain, owned by Enagás and Reganosa, has launched a service to supply bio-LNG 💧 to ships and tankers.

The new service is available as of November 5, and it uses the interconnected infrastructure so that the biomethane injected into the gas network 💭 can be recognized as bio-LNG and supplied via the terminal.

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A.P. Moller – Maersk has placed an order for at least eight 8️⃣ dual-fuel container vessels powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) at China’s New Times Shipbuilding (NTS).

The order includes an option for four additional units. Maersk will reportedly cash out 💰193 million for each of the 18,000 TEU containerships, to be handed over to Maersk in 2028 and 2029 🎊.

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CMA CGM announced the entry into the fleet and registration under the French flag of ten 🔟 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) dual-fuel vessels 💧, each with a capacity of 24,212 TEUs, among the largest and most energy-efficient in the world. 

These LNG dual-fuel vessels are compatible with biomethane and e-methane 💧, two low-carbon alternative fuels that reduce CO2 emissions by 67% and 85% respectively 📉, while significantly cutting atmospheric pollutants, including sulfur oxides, fine particles, and nitrogen oxides. 

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AET has signed a newbuilding US$200M contract 🤝 with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the construction of two LNG dual-fuel Suezmaxes

AET dual-fuel fleet – including both active vessels and those under construction – will grow to 18 ships 📈, comprising 15 LNG-powered vessels and three running on ammonia 🔥.

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Kuzey Star Shipyard successfully completed the capacity expansion of FSRU LNG CROATIA 🚢 — a key milestone enhancing regional energy security.

The scope included the full integration of the new regasification unit with the existing system, enabling parallel operation and increased efficiency 📈.

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