Top 5 news of the week February 13-19

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of February 13-19, 2023.

1) South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering will build one liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier worth about $249 million under a new contract revealed on Monday.

2) South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has hosted a naming ceremony for the first of ten 15,000-teu LNG-powered containerships it built for owner Seaspan, a unit of Atlas Corp, and charterer ZIM.

3) The 170,000-cbm FSRU Hoegh Gannet, which serves the Elbehafen LNG import terminal in Germany’s Brunsbuettel, received its first LNG carrier on Tuesday.

4) Energy Transfer is optimistic that it will take a final investment decision on its proposed Lake Charles LNG export facility in Louisiana, but it will take the firm longer than previously expected, according to its co-CEO, Tom Long.

5) France’s TotalEnergies, one of the world’s largest LNG players, said that French and European firms have shown high interest to secure capacities at the planned FSRU-based facility in Le Havre following a market test.

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