Gazprom charters two LNG carriers
Gazprom's marketing and trading division has chartered two new 174,000-m3 LNG carriers (LNGCs), the Russian gas supplier reported on May 21, boosting its presence in the global LNG market.
The first LNG carrier, Energy Integrity, was delivered on May 14, while the second carrier, Energy Intelligence, should be dispatched towards the end of June. They were built by the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Okpo shipyard in South Korea and will be managed by Greek shipping company Alpha Gas.
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Gazprom's marketing and trading business already charters four LNG carriers: the 170,200-m3 Velikiy Novgorod and Pskov tankers owned by Russia's Sovcomflot; and the 149,800-m3 Ob River and Amur River belonging to Greece's Dynagas. It also uses Gazprom's own 174,000-m3 Marshal Vasilevskiy floating storage and regasification unit, which was sent to import gas in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave in January 2019 but has spent much of its time since then on hire as an LNGC.