Top 5 news of 2021

As the year is coming to an end, LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during 2021.

Before that, we wish all our readers and partners a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year 2022!

The year behind us has been very successful for LNG Prime and we will announce further information in the upcoming month as we celebrate our first full year in operation.

Below, you can find the five most popular news on LNG Prime, including Bilbao Knutsen’s collision in Spain, the upcoming launch of Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass facility, as well as the giant Qatari shipbuilding program.

1) The 138,000-cbm LNG carrier Bilbao Knutsen, owned by Norway’s shipping firm Knutsen, suffered damage after colliding with another tanker offshore the Port of Huelva in Spain.

2) US energy services firm Baker Hughes has won a contract to supply equipment for the expansion of Woodside’s Pluto LNG plant located on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula. Woodside took a final investment decision on the Scarborough but also Pluto LNG Train 2 developments worth about $12 billion.

3) Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass export project in Louisiana continues to progress towards first LNG production while it looks towards full operations in 2022.

4) Indonesian state-owned gas firm PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), a unit of Pertamina, has started an arbitration process against New York-listed Hoegh LNG Partners over issues related to the Lampung FSRU charter.

5) State-run QatarEnergy has ordered six LNG carriers at two South Korean yards, as part of its massive shipbuilding program revealed earlier this year.

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South Korea’s Posco says first LNG carrier to start ops in H2

Posco International, a unit of South Korean steel producer Posco, plans to start shipping LNG with its first dedicated LNG carrier in the second half of this year.

Canada’s Cedar LNG names FLNG

Canada’s Cedar LNG, a joint venture of Canada’s Pembina Pipeline and the Haisla Nation, has picked a name for its floating LNG facility, which will be located in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation, on Canada’s West Coast.

Wilhelmshaven LNG jetty ready to welcome Excelerate’s FSRU

Dutch marine contractor Van Oord announced on Monday it had completed the new jetty for its client, state-owned LNG...

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Inpex pens preliminary Abadi LNG deals with Indonesian firms

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QatarEnergy eyes major LNG trading expansion

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China’s Hudong-Zhonghua delivers its 50th LNG carrier

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