LNG Carriers News in Russia
| 12/10/2020 - Construction of Russia’s first LNG bunkering vessel is now in its final stage, with Gazprom Neft having now completed its installation of tanks and other cryogenic equipment for liquid natural gas (LN... |
| 12/1/2020 - PAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK”) announced that Novatek Gas & Power Asia Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary, and Saibu Gas Co., Ltd. of Japan have successfully completed their first joint trial delivery of l... |
| 12/1/2020 - GTT has received an order from the Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) for the tank design of six ARC7 ice-breaking LNGCs. Three of them will be built on behalf of the Japa... |
| 11/2/2020 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that charter agreements were signed for three icebreaking liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with LLC ARCTIC LNG 2, the largest shareholder of which is PAO NOVATE... |
| 10/28/2020 - SCF Group (SCF) and Arctic LNG 2, the operator of the Arctic LNG 2 project, concluded 30-year time charter agreements for three new icebreaking LNG carriers (cargo capacity of 172,410 cbm, ice class A... |
| 10/28/2020 - GTT has received a second order from the Russian shipyard Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex (Zvezda) for the tank design of ten ARC7 ice-breaking LNGCs[1] on behalf of a Russian ship-owner. ... |
| 10/21/2020 - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that on 20 October, a naming ceremony for a LNG carrier, jointly ordered by MOL and China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (China COSCO Shipping), was held at Hud... |
| 9/15/2020 - On 14 September 2020, PAO Sovcomflot (“SCF Group”) took delivery of SCF Barents, a new 174,000-cbm LNG carrier. The following day, the vessel embarked upon her maiden voyage under a long-term time cha... |
| 9/7/2020 - SMART LNG, a joint venture of SCF Group and NOVATEK, has signed contracts with VEB.RF Group and Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex to construct and lease ten icebreaking Arc7 LNG carriers. Simultaneously, SM... |
| 7/3/2020 - GTT received, at the end of June, an order from the Russian shipyard Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex (Zvezda) for the tank design of five ARC7 ice-breaking LNGCs on behalf of a Russian ship-owner. |
| 6/1/2020 - PAO NOVATEK (NOVATEK) announced that the Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker “Christophe de Margerie” of Sovcomflot successfully transited the Eastbound ice-covered part of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and reac... |
| 2/26/2020 - Yamal LNG has shipped its thirtieth million ton of LNG since the commencement of the project. The Arc7 ice-class tanker “Nikolay Yevgenov” loaded the 411th cargo as the project reached 30 million tons... |
| 7/25/2019 - PAO NOVATEK announced that the Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker “Vladimir Rusanov” completed the Northern Sea Route (“NSR”) passage via the Eastern direction, and delivered a cargo of LNG produced by the Com... |
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4/10/2019 - Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex and Sovkomflot PJSC have signed a contract to make a pilot gas carrier vessel for the Arctic LNG 2 project. The contract states that the vessel shall be delivered in Q1 202... |
| 3/29/2019 - Ten years ago, on 29 March 2009, the first scheduled Russian LNG cargo was successfully loaded from the Sakhalin-2 LNG plant onto the LNG carrier Energy Frontier. That cargo was to be taken by two of ... |
| 1/2/2019 - Sovcomflot (SCF Group) placed an order at Zvezda shipbuilding complex for construction of three new generation product carriers that use cleaner-burning LNG fuel as their primary fuel. Three MR-class ... |
| 11/26/2018 - The LNG carrier Pskov successfully completed the first LNG ship-to-ship transfer operation for the Yamal LNG Project. Pskov loaded some 170,000 cubic meters of liquefied gas, which was delivered from ... |
| 11/13/2018 - PAO NOVATEK (NOVATEK) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, NOVATEK Gas and Power Asia Pte. Ltd., shipped a cargo of LNG produced from the Yamal LNG project to China National Offshore Oil ... |
| 9/27/2018 - Sovcomflot’s Arctic LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie loaded the milestone 5-millionth tonne of liquefied natural gas for Yamal LNG, at the Port of Sabetta on the Yamal Peninsula in the far north of ... |
| 8/9/2018 - PAO NOVATEK (NOVATEK) announced that Yamal LNG has launched the second LNG train and dispatched the first cargo from this unit. The second LNG train commissioned six months ahead of its original sc... |
