LNG Vessel Anchored in Bay of Fundy Waiting to Deliver Cargo to Canaport LNG Terminal
Posted on Dec 2, 2009 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on LNG Vessel Anchored in Bay of Fundy Waiting to Deliver Cargo to Canaport LNG Terminal
The LNG vessel Mesaimeer is anchored in the Bay of Fundy waiting for weather to clear to allow the vessel to deliver its cargo to the Canaport LNG terminal. A spokesperson for Canaport LNG told the Telegraph-Journal that the Mesaimeer, a Q-Flex class vessel, is the largest LNG carrier to service the Canaport terminal to...
European LNG Headlines
Posted on Nov 25, 2009 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on European LNG Headlines
GE Oil & Gas Installs Gravity-Based Structure for Adriatic LNG (Forbes) Adriatic LNG Announces that Spot Allocation Tender Received No Bids for Access (Adriatic LNG) Cyprus Launches Tender for Term LNG Supplies (Platts LNG Daily) [Subscription required] FSRU Conversion for OLT LNG Project to be Completed by Mid-2010 (Al...
Teekay LNG Predicts More Than 60 LNG Carriers Needed “Within the Next Few Years”
Posted on Nov 25, 2009 in Liquefaction, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on Teekay LNG Predicts More Than 60 LNG Carriers Needed “Within the Next Few Years”
Teekay LNG said this week that it expects approximately 63 new LNG carriers will be required by the many LNG liquefaction projects coming online in the next few years. According to Lloyd’s List, the LNG exports projects planned for or under construction in Australia and Nigeria will require nearly 50 LNG carriers between them. [Subscription...
NATS: Excelerate LNG Vessel Unloading at Northeast Gateway LNG Deepwater Port
Posted on Nov 18, 2009 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on NATS: Excelerate LNG Vessel Unloading at Northeast Gateway LNG Deepwater Port
NATS reports that Excelerate’s LNG vessel Excellence has begun offloading at the Northeast Gateway LNG deepwater port offshore Massachusetts. NATS speculates that the cargo was loaded during July at the Atlantic LNG liquefaction facility in Trinidad and held...
NATS: Excelerate Vessel Likely Chartered to Test Suez’s Neptune LNG Deepwater Port
Posted on Nov 9, 2009 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on NATS: Excelerate Vessel Likely Chartered to Test Suez’s Neptune LNG Deepwater Port
Last Friday NATS [subscription required] reported that one of Excelerate’s regasification vessels visited Massachusetts Bay but did not offload a cargo at the Northeast Gateway LNG deepwater port. NATS hypothesizes that the vessel was chartered by Suez for testing at the Neptune LNG deepwater port currently under...
U.S. Coast Guard Issues Letter of Recommendation for Weaver’s Cove LNG
Posted on Jul 31, 2009 in Federal Regulation, Marine Regulation, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Vessel Transportation | Comments Off on U.S. Coast Guard Issues Letter of Recommendation for Weaver’s Cove LNG
Yesterday the U.S. Coast Guard issued a Letter of Recommendation (LOR) on the suitability of Narragansett Bay and Mt. Hope Bay for LNG vessel traffic associated with the planned Weaver’s Cove LNG import terminal. The LOR states that the relevant portions of the waterways may be considered “suitable for the type and frequency of LNG marine traffic associated with [the]...