Gas Natural has taken a 12-month extension option on an LNG carrier owned by Höegh LNG.

Bureau Veritas (BV) passed 100m gt of classed tonnage in the first half of 2014, totalling 10,700 vessels.  

Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard is finalising contracts with Golar Gimi, subsidiary of Golar LNG, to perform the conversion of a second Moss LNG carrier, the Gimi, into a FLNG vessel.

Gaslog has put in orders for two new 174,000cu m LNG carriers from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), to be delivered in the second half of 2017.

Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard has entered into a conditional contract with Golar Hilli Corporation, subsidiary of Golar LNG, to perform a conversion of an existing Moss LNG carrier into a floating liquefaction vessel (FLNGV).

Stolt-Nielsen Gas has signed an agreement with SunLNG and LNGaz to form a start-up, Stolt LNGaz, to facilitate LNG operations in Canada.

BW Group and Pavilion Energy, a portfolio company of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to acquire, manage and charter maritime LNG assets, including LNG carriers.

Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply three 27,000 cu m multigas carriers for Denmark’s Evergas, under construction at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (SOE) in China.

Japan’s shipowners Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) have separately reached a deal with Chubu Electric Power Company to jointly own a new LNG carrier each.

Oman Drydock Company (ODC) and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Maritime Engineering (DSME) wll launch a partnership to repair LNG carriers at Posidonia 2014.