A joint venture company in which the Japanese shipping giant NYK participates, Huajing LNG Transport (HLT), held a naming ceremony for a new LNG carrier for the CNOOC Group, a Chinese state-owned energy company. The vessel Greenergy River is the first of a series of six LNG carriers that HLT will deploy for CNOOC SG under this project, according to NYK.
It is also the first China-built LNG carrier involving NYK to be deployed under a long-term charter contract with a Chinese customer.
From August, the ship is scheduled to transport LNG procured by the CNOOC Group from suppliers worldwide primarily to China.
The vessel will be managed by OPearl LNG Ship Management Company Limited, a ship-management company established jointly by NYK, CMES, and CETS.
Huajing LNG Transport (HLT) held the naming ceremony at China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) on August 4, where the vessel remained under construction.
The vessel is about 299.00 m long and 46.40 m wide. It is equipped with a dual-fuel engine that uses fuel oil and boil-off gas (LNG vaporized in cargo tanks during navigation) as fuel.
The ship was named Greenergy River,featuring a coined term combining the words “green” and “energy.”
HLT is a joint venture company comprising NYK, CNOOC Gas and Power Singapore Trading & Marketing, CETS Investment Management (HK) and CMES LNG Project 4 Company Limited.
