Top 5 news of the week September 4-10

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of September 4-10, 2023.

1) Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua has received approvals in principle from classification societies for what it says is the world’s largest LNG carrier.

2) Floating LNG player Golar LNG is in talks with Equatorial Guinea to develop the country’s large gas reserves.

3) A unit of Geneva-based energy and LNG trader Gunvor has signed a term LNG supply deal with Hin Kong Power, a joint venture owned by Gulf Energy Development and Ratch Group.

4) LNG giant Shell has shut down its Prelude floating LNG producer offshore Western Australia for scheduled maintenance which it expects will take several months to complete.

5) Paris-based LNG engineering giant Technip Energies has launched a modular, pre-engineered, and standardized solution for LNG production.

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K Line, Petronas name LNG carrier duo in China

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Japan’s MOL merges six ship management companies into one entity

Japanese shipping giant MOL, owner of a large LNG carrier fleet, has merged six of its ship management companies...

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