The liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Al Zuwair was completed and delivered on August 18 at the Korean shipbuilder HHI Ulsan Shipyard of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI).
The vessel will be deployed under a time-charter contract with QatarEnergy, one of the world’s largest LNG producers, as NYK states in its announcement.
Al Zuwair is the third of 12 new LNG carriers being built for QatarEnergy by a joint venture comprising NYK, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (both in Japan), Malaysian-based MISC Berhad, and China LNG Shipping (Holdings) Limited.
This delivery marks the first of these vessels built at HHI, with the Al Zuwair representing the first instance in which the NYK Group will provide ship-management services for the consortium.
The vessel’s cargo capacity is approximately 174,000 m3, its length is about 299 meters, and its beam is 46.40 meters.
She is powered by two X-DF 2.1 iCER engines – dual-fuel engines capable of using fuel oil and boil-off gas as fuel.
Additionally, the vessel is equipped with an air lubrication system (a technology that creates air bubbles along the ship’s hull to reduce hydrodynamic resistance), and also a reliquefaction device that uses surplus boil-off gas.
