Keppel Singmarine wins S$50m deal for S-E Asia's first LNG bunker vessel

Singapore

KEPPEL Singmarine has secured a contract worth S$50 million to build South-east Asia's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering vessel.

The subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (O&M) won the newbuilding award from FueLNG, a joint venture between Shell Eastern Petroleum and Keppel O&M.

Keppel Singmarine expects to complete construction on the dual-fuel LNG bunkering vessel in Q3 of 2020. The vessel will be built to a proprietary design of Keppel O&M's ship design and development arm, Marine Technology Development (MTD), for greener and safer bunkering activities within the Singapore port. It will have a capacity of 7,500 cubic metre…