Bunkering

Shipowener Crowley Maritime Corp. said Wednesday it is partnering with Royal Dutch Shell plc to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge to serve vessels powered by the super-chilled fuel on the East Coast starting in 2024. The 416-foot-long barge is designed to offer capacity for 12,000 cubic meters of LNG and product supply…

Small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplier Stabilis Solutions Inc. expects its first marine fueling events on the Gulf Coast to happen later this year after recently adding several projects to its portfolio.  CEO James Reddinger said last week the company is poised to benefit from expected growth in the bunkering sector as vessel owners move…

Houston-based Stabilis Solutions Inc. is expanding its reach in the growing liquified natural gas (LNG) bunkering sector with the acquisition of a production facility in Port Allen, LA. The fuels specialist said Tuesday it had completed the acquisition of the facility from HR Nu Blu Energy LLC for an undisclosed amount.  The small-scale plant came…

Plans to build the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering port on the Gulf Coast are inching forward by awarding a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for a floating LNG unit. Developer Pilot LNG LLC said last week it had chosen partner Wison Offshore & Marine to carry out the FEED work. Wison also…

Utility FortisBC Energy Inc. plans to double the truck loading capacity at its Tilbury Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Facility in Delta, British Columbia (BC), to meet growing customer demand. Tilbury has selected Clough as the general contractor to build two new loading bays at the terminal. The facility currently fills more than 1,000 LNG containers…

A plan to build the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering terminal along the U.S. Gulf Coast is progressing through the permitting process by initiating a water suitability assessment with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). Pilot LNG LLC’s proposed Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP) project would comprise an LNG production vessel that would be permanently…

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…

Pilot LNG LLC has reached a milestone in its efforts to build the Gulf Coast’s first dedicated liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker terminal by signing a heads of agreement (HOA) for a long-term supply deal with an affiliate of the GAC Group.  GAC Bunker Fuels procures fuel supplies for customers in the shipping industry. The…

A British Columbia (BC) liquefied natural gas (LNG) dealer has recruited a Japanese trading house to help market LNG as a marine fuel at North America’s Pacific Northwest ports.   Cryopeak LNG Solutions Corp., an arm of BP Energy Partners LLC in the Vancouver, BC, suburb of Richmond, said a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the…