Total SE said this week that an affiliate has completed the largest marine refueling with liquefied natural gas (LNG) ever to take place. 

The company said it filled the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, a large containership, with 17,300 cubic meters of LNG at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands last week, making it the largest operation of its kind in history. Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions (TMFGS), which is dedicated entirely to bunkering, refueled the Jacques Saadé in a ship-to-ship transfer while the containership carried out cargo operations. 

The LNG delivered by TMFGS’s bunkering vessel, the Gas Agility, also included 13% biomethane that was produced from municipal waste in the Netherlands. Total’s Jérôme Leprince-Ringuet, vice president of marine fuels, said the...