Japan’s Tsuneishi Yura Dockyard, part of Tsuneishi, has secured a license from French LNG containment specialist GTT, allowing it to repair and maintain membrane-type LNG carriers.
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State-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy expects the damage to two liquefaction trains at its giant Ras Laffan complex to take three years to repair, according to Qatar’s energy minister and CEO of QatarEnergy, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi.
South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean is teaming up with Korean Register (KR) to jointly develop two design concepts for an 18,000-cbm LNG bunkering vessel.
Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua has received approvals from five classification societies for a new LNG carrier design that features GTT's Next1 containment tech.
French LNG containment giant GTT expects approximately 550 orders for large LNG carriers over the next ten years, according to chief executive Francois Michel.
French LNG containment giant GTT received orders for 56 liquefied natural gas carriers, two very large ethane carriers, one FSRU, and five LNG storage tanks in the first half of this year, while its revenue decreased 0.4 percent compared to the same period last year.