European Commission unveiled on Monday a record €13.1 bn ($14.6 bn) investment plan in 276 transport projects selected under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), including small-scale LNG deployment plans or projects enhancing the navigability of the Danube River.
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Linde will highlight a new technology for small scale LNG at the 26th World Gas Conference. StarLNGL™ is Linde’s latest small scale standard solution to kick-start the LNG market.
Gas operator Fluxys launched a market consultation to assess the demand for small-scale LNG services at the Zeebrugge LNG terminal in Belgium such as loading small LNG bunker and feeder vessels as well as LNG trailer loading services.
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GE Capital, Canada and Shell Canada Products have signed a commercial agreement to facilitate the trucking industry’s adoption of LNG in Canada.
via LNG Industry
CSSC-affiliated Jiangnan Shipyard has delivered China’s first small scale LNG for CNOOC. The Hai Yang Shi You 301 is equipped with four type-C tanks and is capable to carry 30,000 cbm of LNG.
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Nova Scotia LNG is planning to build two small LNG facilities in Canada with a total capacity of 0.18-0.26 MTPA. A 30,000-60,000 tpa plant and another 150,000-200,000 tpa project will be constructed, with the former targeting bunkering demand along the US and Canadian East Coast and the latter on diesel displacement markets in the Caribbean.
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Gothenburg-based shipping company Stena Bulk, owner of three LNG carriers, said it is interested in investing in the small scale LNG market. Stena Bulk is confident that LNG will have its role as a marine fuel in the future, “especially when/if IMO’s Nox rules come into play”.
via LNG World News
The US Coast Guard’s Office of Design and Engineering Standards has released CG-ENG Policy Letter 02-15 to provide interim guidance on the design of LNG barges. Since US ports do not have LNG liquefaction and storage facilities yet, ships will have to rely on small-scale bunkering for the time being.
Barge-based mid-scale (2mtpa) Texas LNG has awarded FEED contract to Samsung Engineering. The project will be the second “grounded barge / skid” LNG project in the world. Total EPC expenses are estimated at over $1bn.
GE Oil & Gas and Dalian Energas Gas-System (Energas) have signed a strategic MoU to build LNG infrastructure in China. GE, through enCryo, a GE O&G and Maison joint venture in China, will build a small-scale LNG plant with a daily production capacity of 50,000 m3 in Xinjiang, and up to eight more similarly sized plants in the region over the next three years.
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