Shell conducts LNG bunkering in the Caribbean

Shell LNG chartered LNG bunkering vessel recently completed its inaugural bunkering operation in the Caribbean.

PHOTO: Shell LNG’s LNG bunker barge New Frontier 2 delivering LNG stem. LinkedIn of Tahir Faruqui

The 18,000-cbm capacity LNG bunkering vessel, New Frontier 2, conducted its first ship-to-ship LNG bunker operation in Portland Bight, Jamaica.

New Frontier 2 is the third vessel to be deployed in the Americas and part of Shell’s global LNG bunkering fleet of 12 vessels. The vessel has been built by South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and chartered out by Seoul-based shipping company Pan Ocean.

The vessel will help to “strengthen Shell’s bunkering operations, ensuring LNG’s availability as a lower-carbon marine fuel across key bunkering locations worldwide,” Shell Trading’s global head of downstream LNG Tahir Faruqui says.

The Maritime Authority of Jamaica and the Port Authority of Jamaica assisted the bunkering operation.

LNG can curb carbon dioxide emissions by about a quarter compared to conventional bunker fuels. But its methane emissions can be 36 times more potent as a GHG compared to carbon dioxide over a century, according to a World Bank study.

By Tuhin Roy

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