Norway’s Knutsen OAS last May
had concluded a shipbuilding deal
with Hyundai Heavy Industries for
two hulls for its new ship owning
companies, Norspan LNG IX AS and
Norspan LNG X AS.
Gas Natural selected it to manage two newbuildings for the
Stream LNG...
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Norway’s Knutsen OAS last May
had concluded a shipbuilding deal
with Hyundai Heavy Industries for
two hulls for its new ship owning
companies, Norspan LNG IX AS and
Norspan LNG X AS.
Gas Natural selected it to manage two newbuildings for the
Stream LNG fleet, formerly owned
by Spanish Repsol. The fleet is
now owned by Shell.
Spanish shipping company
Elcano around the same time
reportedly booked two LNG
newbuildings for Gas Natural
charter.
The ships were signed on two
time charters for period of 20
years, following delivery in third
and fourth quarter of 2016, after
which the charterer will have options to extend the charter for two
periods of five years successively.
The two identical sister ships
will have a capacity of 176,300
cubic metres each, and be capable of passing through the Panama
Canal, powered by ME-GI engines.
The deal is an extension of
Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers
(KNOT) a joint venture of NYK and
Knutsen’s entity TS Shipping Invest
AS (TSSI) set up in 2010 to manage
a
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