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FueLNG, together with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), has completed Singapore’s first bunkering of an LNG-fuelled oil tanker. FueLNG is a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) and Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd.
FueLNG successfully completed the gas-up and cool down operation for the LNG-powered oil tanker
Pacific Emerald, including the transfer of 3000 m
3 of LNG from
FueLNG Bellina, Singapore’s first LNG bunkering vessel, to the tanker.
Pacific Emerald is the first of 10 new-build Aframax tankers chartered by Shell Tankers Singapore (Private) Limited from Sinokor Petrochemical Co Limited.
FueLNG is committed to promoting the adoption of LNG as a marine fuel and has been working closely with partners including MPA to boost the growth of Singapore as a global LNG bunkering hub.
SINGAPORE - The country’s efforts to become a LNG bunkering hub have taken a major step forward after around 3,000 cubic m of liquefied natural gas were transferred from a vessel to an oil tanker in the Port of Singapore.
The process – a first here – involved the bunkering vessel FueLNG Bellina completing the gas-up and cool-down operation to the LNG-powered Pacific Emerald, one of 10 similar tankers chartered by Shell Tankers Singapore.
Another 30 to 50 of such ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operations will be undertaken by the same players this year, noted the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and FueLNG, which completed the bunkering on Friday (May 7).
Singapore Singapore s FueLNG a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and Shell Eastern Petroleum along with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, has completed Singapore s first ship-to-ship bunkering of an LNG-fueled oil tanker, marking another milestone in Singapore s efforts to become an LNG bunkering hub.
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FueLNG completed the gas-up and cool down operation for the LNG-powered oil tanker Pacific Emerald, including the transfer of 3,000 cu m of LNG from FueLNG Bellina, Singapore s first LNG bunkering vessel, to the tanker, FueLNG, Keppel Offshore & Marine, Shell and the MPA said a joint statement May 7.
7 May 2021 6:19 GMT Updated 7 May 2021 6:19 GMT in Singapore
FueLNG, together with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), on Friday completed Singapore’s first bunkering of an LNG-fuelled oil tanker.
Shell’s Aframax tanker Pacific Emerald is the first oil tanker to be LNG-bunkered in the city state, with the operation performed by FueLNG Bellina, Singapore’s first liquefied natural gas vessel.
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FueLNG bunkers Aframax in Singapore
May 7, 2021 4:34:pm
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FueLNG bunkers Aframax in Singapore
FueLNG, a joint venture owned by Anglo-Dutch Shell and Keppel Offshore & Marine, completed Singapore’s first bunkering of an LNG-fuelled oil tanker May 7, it said. The
FueLNG Bellina transferred 3,000 m³ into the fuel tank of
Pacific Emerald, an Aframax tanker (
see banner image).
FueLNG is committed to promoting the adoption of LNG as a marine fuel and has been working closely with partners including the Singapore Maritime & Port Authority (MPA) to boost the growth of Singapore as a global LNG bunkering hub.