KOGAS charters LNG bunkering vessel to Shell

Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) announced that it has chartered a recently acquired LNG bunkering vessel to British oil supermajor Shell.

PHOTO: KOGAS's LNG bunkering vessel K.Lotus. KOGAS

KOGAS took delivery of the LNG bunkering vessel K.Lotus from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard on 16 March.

In 2019, the company signed an agreement with Shell to charter bunkering vessel.

KOGAS claims the 18,000 cbm-capacity K.Lotus is the world's largest LNG bunkering vessel, although Avenir LNG's 20,000 cbm-capacity Avenir Allegiance is even bigger.

The vessel has departed for the Netherlands last week, and will provide LNG bunkering services to all sizes of LNG-fuelled vessels in Rotterdam.

Once the charter contract expires, KOGAS says that it may use the vessel to provide services in the domestic South Korean market.