Bunkering

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…

Cryopeak LNG Solutions Corp. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a marine bulk fuels transporter to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering services on Canada’s West Coast.  Cryopeak signed the MOU with Seattle-based Island Tug & Barge Ltd. The companies have developed a design for a 4,000 cubic meter vessel that would fuel…

With a focus on providing infrastructure solutions to supply new markets with natural gas, Houston-based Pilot LNG LLC has filed with federal regulators to build in Texas what it said would be the Gulf Coast’s first dedicated liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker terminal. The proposed Galveston LNG Bunker Port, to be sited on Pelican Island,…

Paris-based Total SA has inked a deal to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) to another French company with global shipping operations.

The implications of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) revised rules for marine sector emissions will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences, but how the new mandates may impact pricing for liquefied natural gas (LNG) remain unclear.

Natural gas giant Qatar Petroleum (QP) and the No. 1 gas seller, Royal Dutch Shell plc, are partnering to provide global marine bunkering services, a growing infrastructure need.