“The best future fuel is a ‘drop-in’ fuel,” declared Dr German Weisser, WinGD’s senior advisor emissions research and development (pictured) at a London seminar this week.
The two 174,000 cu m LNG carriers will be chartered to ExxonMobil subsidiary SeaRiver Maritime for transporting LNG worldwide for a period of 15 years.
Tanker owner International Seaways (INSW) has sold its 49.9% interest in its joint venture with Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat), which owns four liquefied natural gas LNG carriers to Nakilat for $123m.
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Novatek, and Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) have inked a cooperation agreement with a view to building floating storage units (FSUs) for transhipment of cargoes from the Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 2 projects.
Classification society DNV GL remains convinced that the route to the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2050 carbon targets is via LNG as a bridging fuel.