Before LNG ship arrival to the discharge port 🏭, the crew proceeds with preparations and checks for a safe operation. These checks are split for three 3️⃣ days before arrival.

Two days prior arrival

To be tested and proved fully operational.

Speed of remote operation checked and confirmed to be within surge avoidance parameters. Should be 25 - 30 sec (Critical with regard to the loading arms and damage avoidance in the event of an ESD)

Remote and manual operation to be tested.

Check for moisture ingress

Filters, gaskets and flanges

Check for mechanical damage

Systems to be checked.

Next edition will cover 1️⃣ day prior arrival checks.

Russia’s Yamal LNG is shipping its first cargo of gas to China since November 💧.

The project, controlled by Russia’s largest producer Novatek, is exporting the LNG weeks before the European Union ramps up its ban on Russian imports 📈.

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Qatar is mobilizing engineers and other workers to restart output at QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan facility 📈.

Repair work is underway at the plant ahead of the restart. Production could resume within days 🏭 if shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is restored.

Qatar's Ras Laffan, the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) refinery, will not be fully back online until the end of August at the earliest 📅, with a fifth of its capacity gone for years

Iranian missile strikes last month destroyed parts of the complex that supplies one fifth of the world's super-chilled fuel 🚨

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The Trung Nam-Sideros River consortium signed a business and investment contract for the $2.18 billion Ca Na LNG-fired thermal power plant project 🏭, unlocking new development momentum for an integrated energy-industrial complex in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa 📍.

This marks the first LNG power project in Vietnam 🥇 selected through an international bidding process under the Power Development Plan VIII.

The development includes an LNG storage and regasification system with a capacity of 1-1.2 million tons per year, a 220,000-cubic-meter storage tank, an LNG import terminal 🚢

(C) Copyright The investor 2026

Australian energy infrastructure player Viva Energy has received federal environmental approval 📝 for its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project in Geelong, Australia.

The company welcomed the Environment Minister’s EPBC approval, which recognizes that the proposed LNG terminal can proceed 🎯, subject to conditions, with acceptable environmental effects.

Last year, Viva hired Poten & Partners to obtain expressions of interest from the global maritime industry to supply an existing FSRU or retrofit an LNG carrier into an FSRU for the terminal 🚢.

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Jumbo Offshore and CoreMarine have been tasked with the transport and installation of the soft-yoke (SSY) mooring systems and hook-up of two 2️⃣ floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessels in Argentina’s Golfo San Matías, the FLNG Hilli Episeyo and the FLNG MKII.

This deal was awarded by Southern Energy S.A. (SESA), supported by a consortium comprising 🤝 Pan American Energy, YPF, Pampa Energía, Harbour Energy, and Golar LNG.

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GAIL has signed a long-term charter agreement with Greece-based Alpha Gas 🤝 for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Energy Fidelity

The vessel, with a capacity of 174,000 cubic metres 💧, is equipped with advanced propulsion and fuel-efficiency technologies aimed at lowering emissions.

GAIL will use the carrier to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from countries like the US and Russia 🌎.

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GAIL has signed a long-term charter agreement with Greece-based Alpha Gas 🤝 for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Energy Fidelity.

The vessel, with a capacity of 174,000 cubic metres 💧, is equipped with advanced propulsion and fuel-efficiency technologies aimed at lowering emissions.

GAIL will use the carrier to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from countries like the US and Russia 🌎.

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Türkiye is set to reject Ukraine's proposal to ship liquefied natural gas through the Bosphorus Strait ❌, citing the severe safety risks posed by liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers navigating the narrow, densely populated waterway running through Istanbul

A senior Turkish official said that LNG tankers could pose a serious accident risk in the Bosphorus, a narrow strait that narrows to just 700 meters at its tightest points 🚨 and requires turns of 70 to 80 degrees or more in some sections.

Ukraine's proposal would involve constructing a floating storage and regasification unit in the Black Sea ⚓, requiring LNG tankers to pass through the Bosphorus.

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South Korean shipowner Sinokor Maritime has finally opted to sell 💵 one of its unemployed and long-term idle LNG carriers for demolition.

Brokers said the 140,708-cbm steam turbine-driven Hongkong Energy (ex-Northwest Swan, built 2004) has been sold on an “as is” basis in Linggi, Malaysia 📍.

Sinokor Maritime’s LNG carrier Hongkong Energy is expected to be towed to Bangladesh for demolition 🏗.

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Indonesia’s Buana Lautan Line has sealed a surprise purchase, adding the  138,000 cu m Seapeak Jupiter, a 2002-built steam turbine LNG carrier, for 💰14.9m. 

The vessel has been renamed Gas Polaris 🚢, marking a rare case of a vintage steam unit finding a second life rather than heading straight for recycling. 

The deal comes as Seapeak continues to trim its ageing steam fleet, which has become increasingly uneconomic 🚫 amid high fuel costs and tightening emissions regulations. 

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China completed its largest domestically designed and built Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier 🥇 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, bringing the number of Chinese shipyards capable of delivering such vessels to five.

The vessel, named Celsius Georgetown was built by China Merchants Industry Haimen Base for Celsius Shipping. It is the first vessel of a 4+2+2 contract 🤝.

The ship has a cargo capacity of 180,000 cubic meters 💧, features GTT Mark III Flex technology, two MAN 5GME-C10-GA main engine and air lubrication system

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Angolan state-owned oil and gas company Sonangol has returned to HD Hyundai Samho for an LNG carrier order 🤝.

Parent company HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) announced the deal, covering two 2️⃣ 174,000-cbm vessels for $511m.

The Sonangol Benguela (Photo) is one of three steam turbine vessels in Angola LNG’s seven ship LNG carrier fleet.

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RKM Marine has successfully completed the keel laying of the LNG and bio-LNG bunker tanker Celsius 🎊.

The construction of the 112.90-metre Celsius has officially begun. The keel laying marks steady progress in the project 🏗.

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Elenger, Finland’s privately owned energy company by Infortar, has set the wheels in motion to get ready for the next heating season by securing 🤝 five liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes this spring.

While three LNG cargoes are set to arrive at the Inkoo terminal in Finland 📍, two are slated to come at the Klaipėda LNG terminal in Lithuania 📍. The first cargo was scheduled to arrive last week from the United States to the port of Inkoo on the Marvel Swallow LNG tanker.

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Russia offers sanctioned LNG to energy-hungry Asia at 40% discount 💰.

Russia is seeking to leverage a global natural gas supply crunch to lure energy-starved South Asia into purchasing shipments from its US-sanctioned facilities 🏭.

The shipments were being offered at a 40 per cent discount 💵 to spot prices last week via little-known intermediary companies based in China and Russia. The sellers said that they could provide paperwork to make it appear that the shipments originated from non-Russian sources, like Oman or Nigeria 📘.

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Bulgartransgaz EAD, Bulgaria's state-owned gas system operator, will secure the natural gas needed for the technological operation of Bulgaria’s gas transmission system 🏭 through a tender procedure for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

For the period from July 2026 through September 2027, the company plans to purchase a total of 1.5 million megawatt-hours of LNG 💧.

The deliveries are expected to be carried out through the LNG terminal in Alexandroupolis 🚢, in which Bulgartransgaz holds an ownership stake.

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Petrobangla to import 11 LNG cargoes in May to secure gas supply for summer power demand ⚡.

The government plans to import 11 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes in May despite surging global prices 📈 as it seeks to ensure an adequate gas supply for power generation during the peak summer season.

Petrobangla has secured four cargoes for May – two from the spot market and two through short- and long-term contracts 💧. The remaining seven cargoes are expected to be finalised in the coming days.

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Sawgrass LNG & Power announced the successful completion of the first-ever 🥇 shore-to-ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection vessel Ilma was fuelled with LNG 💧.

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Evergreen Marine intends to order six 24,000 TEU-class LNG dual-fuel 💧 container ships from Hanwha Ocean.

The cost per vessel ranges from 💰262 million to 💰295 million, bringing the total cost for the six new ships to between 💰1.572 billion and 💰1.77 billion.

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The full video of the two Qatari-laden LNG carriers attempting to exit the Middle East Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring continued disruption to global gas flows 🚨.

According to MarineTraffic data, the 148,853-cbm LNG carrier Al Daayen, originally bound for Tianjin, China, and the 260,912-cbm Q-Max vessel Rasheeda, bound for Port Qasim, Pakistan, both approached the strait before turning back 🚫. Following the aborted crossing, the 288-metre Al Daayen updated her AIS destination to Pakistan.