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MISC Berhad (MISC) has been hired for the provision of lease, operate, and maintain (O&M) scope of work for a floating production unit (FPU) 🚢 destined to be deployed at a natural gas development project off the coast of Brunei ⚓.

MISC has received a letter of award (LOA) from 🤝 Petronas Carigali Brunei, for a 12-year charter of an FPU, which is expected to begin operation in the first half of 2029 📅 at a natural gas project in Brunei.

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Upcoming LNG importer Morocco wants to put the first of two planned FSRU-based terminals 🚢 in place by 2027, leaving little time to ready a conversion project except for those who have already made a head start 🏗.

Morocco’s Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development launched two 2️⃣ international gas infrastructure tenders on Friday, one of which is the kick-off of a process to secure an FSRU and the second to build a gas pipeline network.

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Wood has won a multi-year assignment with NextDecade Corporation 🤝 for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Texas, United States. 

The ten-year contract with NextDecade will enable Wood to deliver maintenance solutions at Rio Grande LNG 🏗, a natural gas liquefaction and export facility under development near Brownsville, Texas.

The firm will provide comprehensive maintenance services to support safe, reliable operations at the approximately 1,000-acre site

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Poland celebrated the tenth 🔟 anniversary of the first liquefied natural gas tanker docking at Świnoujście.

In the decade since, the terminal has accepted more than 400 LNG carriers 🚢 and imported 31 million tonnes of liquefied gas 💧.

Gaz-System is also building a second LNG terminal, namely an FSRU in Gdańsk Bay 🚢, which will add another 6.1 bcm capacity from 2028.

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Norwegian shipowner Knutsen OAS Shipping has won a time-charter contract 🤝 from Italian energy company Edison for a single the 174,000-cbm LNG carrier newbuilding.

Shipowner has been pursuing a raft of LNG tender business 🚢

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Sentinel-2 spotted CCH Gas near Hong Kong, looks like it’s been there since at least Nov. 24 🚢, according to Kpler data analysts.

Back in late October, CCH Gas teamed up for an STS LNG transfer with the sanctioned Russian “dark fleet” tanker Perle offshore Malaysia ⚓, with the latter laden with LNG from the also-sanctioned Portovaya LNG terminal 💧 in the Baltic Sea.

Then CCH Gas disappeared, while Perle made its way back to Portovaya LNG. The discovery of CCH Gas was further complicated by cloudy weather 💭 on flyover days over the area.

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Norway’s Knutsen OAS Shipping is being named as the preferred shipowner 🤝 for domestic energy company Equinor’s LNG carrier newbuilding requirement 🏗.

Knutsen is the shortlisted owner earmarked to win the charter business 🚢.

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A sanctioned LNG carrier linked to Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project has been forced to abandon attempts ❌ to reach the Utrenny terminal after encountering unusually thick sea ice in the Gulf of Ob. 

The 293 m long LNG carrier Buran (built 2023), one of seven LNG carriers listed under Sovcomflot in VesselsValue’s fleet register, made four unsuccessful attempts 🚫 to break through the ice, despite support from Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet 🚢.

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Japanese shipowner NYK Group is in the process of putting together an order for up to eight 8️⃣ LNG carrier newbuildings, which are being pencilled in against charters with a large producer 🤝.

NYK has signed a letter of intent with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries for 4️⃣ four vessels.

Incoming contract signals the need for shipping from a new wave of US product 💧.

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Adnoc Logistics and Services celebrated the naming ceremony and delivery of the 4th 175,000 m³ LNG carrier Al Sadaf at Jiangnan Shipyard 🎊

This vessel is built with GTT - Technology for a Sustainable World ’s Mark III Flex technology and classed under DNV standards 🏗.

Two more to go from Jiangnan Shipyard 🎊

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BW's recently ordered large liquefied natural gas carriers are expected to feature three LNG tanks instead of four, marking an industry first 🥇

The switch from four tanks to three in a new LNG carrier design from GTT could reduce voyage-based emissions by up to 27% 📉.

The 200,000 cu m LNG design will trade at lower service speeds and will reduce unit freight costs by 5.5% from the outset📉 , and by 14% by mid-century under regulatory frameworks including the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and FuelEU Maritime 📉.  

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TMS celebrated the Naming Ceremony of PARTHENON LNG (Hull 8182) at HD Hyundai Samho 🎊.

This is the first of three 3️⃣ vessels TMS is building at Hyundai — and the second of seven 7️⃣ in their current expansion program.

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Dalian Changxing Island achieved the first liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) bunkering operation in China 🥇 at the Petrochemical Industrial Base on the island.

An undisclosed amount of bio-LNG was delivered to dual-fuel multipurpose carrier Xing Sheng Yuan 🚢 that is used for ethylene transportation.

The bio-LNG is produced by Anhui Wanbo Energy Technology Co Ltd, which is made through the fermentation of organic waste 🛢. 

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Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP) has announced the signing of a commercial commitment 🤝 with an international shipping company for the provision of LNG bunker fuel in Galveston Bay 💧.

The Heads of Agreement covers LNG as a marine fuel to be delivered to the customer 🚢 via a Jones Act-compliant LNG bunker vessel beginning in 2029.

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Somtrans celebrated the delivery of its new LNG bunkering vessel United LNG I 🎊 dedicated to serving European inland and coastal waterways.

LNG cryogenic tanks were designed and built by Gas and Heat 🏗, supporting an efficient, safe and energy-transition-oriented solution.

• Length: ~135 m

• Width: ~21.5 m

• Total LNG capacity: ~8,000 m³

• 8 cylindrical tanks of 1,000 m³ each

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Shenzhen's Yantian port, in Guangdong province, southern China, aims to boost its LNG bunkering volume to 450,000 cubic meters by 2025 🚀, representing a 50% increase from 2024

The port's total LNG bunkering volume reached a record high of 300,000 cu m in 2024, nearly six times the volume from 2023 📈

This positions Yantian as the second-largest 2️⃣ port in China for LNG bunkering.

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South Korea’s Sun Comprehensive Energy has patented the design for a bunkering vessel capable to deliver multiple fuels 💧. 

Sun Comprehensive Energy’s bunker vessel integrates specialised storage and handling systems to manage the sharply different temperature 📉, pressure and safety requirements of each fuel, enabling multi-fuel deliveries without deploying separate vessels.

The vessel can deliver  LNG, methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen from a single ship 🚢 . 

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Cosco Shipping has branched into LNG dual-fuel newbuildings 💧 for the first time as part of its latest mega-order.

Cosco has penned a dozen 1️⃣2️⃣ LNG dual-fuelled 18,000-teu newbuildings at Shanghai’s Jiangnan Shipyard.

More than half of the 62 container ships Cosco has on order are 👉 methanol-ready

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Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding delivered the world’s largest 24,000 TEU LNG dual-fuel container ship “CMA CGM Vendôme” 🏆 to France’s CMA CGM Group, eight and a half months ahead of schedule 🎊.

The CMA CGM Vendôme measures 399 meters in length overall, 61.3 meters in beam, and has a design draft of 14.5 meters.

Equipped with an 18,600m³ Mark III LNG fuel tank 💧, the vessel can achieve a clean-fuel range of nearly 20,000 nautical miles 🌎.

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Shipowner NYK, classification society American Bureau of Shipping, Japanese energy company Eneos Corp and transportation-focused Seacor Holdings have teamed up 🤝 to study methanol bunkering on the US Gulf Coast.

In a joint study, the quartet are looking at how to develop methanol bunkering and supply chain network 💧.

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