Yamal LNG Project

Novatek Announces Fleet Expansion Plans

Novatek, the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia, will be expanding its fleet of gas carriers to 65 vessels by 2026, four times its current fleet size, reports Splash247.

The announcement was made on the final day of the Saint-Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

A powerful fleet

Yevgeny Ambrosov, Novatek’s director of maritime operations, shipping and logistics, commented: “In terms of number, the fleet of Qatar is probably larger, but in terms of value, sophistication...

https://mfame.guru/novatek-announces-fleet-expansion-plans/

Novatek Starts LNG Ship-To-Ship Operations

According to a Reuters report, Russian gas producer Novatek has started ship-to-ship loadings of liquefied natural gas from the Yamal LNG project near the northern port of Murmansk, shifting away from Norway, ship tracking data at Refinitiv Eikon showed on Monday.

What is it?

Novatek unloads the LNG from ice-class tankers, which are more costly to use, onto more conventional gas carriers. According to the data, the tankers Nikolay Yevgenov and Yamal Spirit moored near Murmansk for loadings on...

https://mfame.guru/novatek-starts-lng-ship-to-ship-operations/

Fourth LNG Carrier for the Yamal Project Gets Named

  • The naming ceremony for the LNG carrier, jointly ordered by MOL and China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (China COSCO Shipping), was held at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. (Hudong).
  • The LNG Merak is the second of four newbuilding LNG Carriers for the Yamal LNG Project and will be engaged in the transport of the Project’s LNG from transshipment terminals in Europe to Asia LNG terminals.

MOL named the fourth LNG carrier for the Yamal LNG project as LNG Merak, reads a press...

http://mfame.guru/fourth-lng-carrier-for-the-yamal-project-gets-named/

MOL Signs Cooperation Agreement for LNG Transshipment Projects

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Japan Bank for International Cooperation and NOVATEK have signed a Cooperation Agreement says a press release published on their website.

LNG Transshipment Projects

On 26 September 2019, a Cooperation Agreement for LNG Transshipment Projects in Kamchatka and Murmansk, the east and west of the Russian Federation was launched.

Construction of FSUs

The Projects will construct floating storage units to transship LNG cargoes from ice-breaking LNG ships to conventional LNG ships. The...

http://mfame.guru/mol-signs-cooperation-agreement-for-lng-transshipment-projects/

LNG carrier Pskov completes first open water STS transfer for Yamal LNG

From the STS operation with the Pskov (at the front)  and Vladimir Rusanov

On 24 November 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 the Port of Sabetta (Yamal Peninsula) to the transshipment point by one of the Arctic LNG carriers chartered by Yamal LNG.

The cargo transshipment was carried out at the safe anchorage off the port of...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/26/lng-carrier-pskov-completes-first-open-water-sts-transfer-for-yamal-lng/