The first of the vessels, with a 155,300 cu m capacity, will be built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for a K Line joint venture with Australian oil and gas company INPEX called Ocean Breeze LNG Transport (OBLT).
The 70% K Line owned joint venture has signed a long term charter with INPEX for the vessel to carry LNG from the Ichthys project in Western Australia to Japan.
The second vessel of 182,000 cu m capacity will be built at Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and has a long term charter shipping LNG from the Ichthys project to Taiwan for a joint venture between French oil major Total and INPEX.
The Ichthys LNG project is due to produce first gas in 2016.
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