LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of August 12-18, 2024.
1) India’s Swan Energy has agreed to sell its 2020-built 180,000-cbm FSRU, Vasant 1, to Türkiye’s state-owned natural gas and LNG firm Botas.
2) A unit of German biofuels producer Verbio is seeking long-term and short-term authorization from the US Department of Energy to export bio-LNG via US small-scale liquefaction facilities mainly to Europe.
3) Chinese private shipyard Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has terminated shipbuilding contracts for two 175,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. The shipbuilder aims to resell the vessels.
4) South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has delivered one 174,000-cbm LNG carrier to compatriot shipowner Pan Ocean and charterer Shell.
5) Floating LNG player Golar LNG expects to enter into a yard EPC contract to convert its 148,000-cbm Moss-type carrier, Fuji LNG, into an MKII FLNG within the third quarter of this year.