Top 5 news of the week September 30-October 6

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of September 30-October 6, 2024.

1) South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has handed over a new 180,000-cbm LNG carrier to Denmark’s Celsius Tankers, a unit of Celsius Shipping.

2) South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean has secured an order to build one floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for about $413 million.

3) France’s TotalEnergies and its partners in the giant Mozambique LNG project are working to restart construction on the 12.8 mtpa project by the end of 2024, according to Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of TotalEnergies.

4) Greece-based shipping firm TMS Cardiff Gas has named the first in a series of newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers in South Korea.

5) Houston-based McDermott, through a consortium with Italy’s Saipem and China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the ExxonMobil-led Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique.

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