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An LNG carrier is a floating vacuum flask with an engine that can burn what evaporates. Only a handful of shipyards can build one, their slots are booked years ahead, and the engines, pumps and reliquefaction plant come from an equally short list of suppliers.
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Makes the Turbo-Brayton cryogenic subcooler that reliquefies boil-off gas aboard LNG carriers and terminals, with more than 260 units sold.
Part of BW Group, and an owner and operator of LNG carriers and floating storage and regasification units.
A Greek owner of latest-generation LNG carriers with a large newbuilding programme delivering into the late 2020s, controlled through Capital Gas by the Marinakis family.
An owner, operator and manager of fuel-efficient LNG carriers, which also manages floating regasification units for third parties.
Builds boil-off gas compressor packages that route cargo vapour to a ship's engines, plus the ECOCHILL on-water reliquefaction unit and cryogenic pumps.
Builds 175,000 cubic metre LNG carriers with GTT Mark III Flex membranes, having delivered its first two for China Merchants Energy Shipping.
Through Ebara Elliott Energy's Cryodynamics line, makes submerged electric cryogenic pumps and expanders for liquefaction, storage and regasification, on shore and afloat.
Owns and operates one of the largest floating LNG terminal portfolios, with eleven FSRUs in operation or under construction delivering regasified LNG at pipeline pressure.
Owns thirteen modern LNG carriers built between 2018 and 2021, nine with MEGI and four with X-DF two-stroke propulsion.
An owner, operator and manager of LNG carriers, based in Monaco and trading since 2002.
The largest owner of floating liquefaction capacity, operating FLNG Hilli off Cameroon and FLNG Gimi off Senegal and Mauritania.
Builds LNG carriers and FSRUs and supplies its own dual-fuel marine engines, having delivered more than 2,300 vessels to owners in 51 countries.
Builds LNG carriers at its Geoje yard with ME-GI, X-DF and ME-GA two-stroke dual-fuel engines, and has developed high-manganese steel cargo tanks.
China's main LNG carrier builder, part of CSSC, producing 174,000 cubic metre X-DF vessels and holding an order book of close to 60 carriers.
Owns and operates ten FSRUs and three LNG carriers, and is adapting its floating terminals for ammonia and hydrogen import.
Part of CSSC, and the developer of the Brilliance Type B cargo containment system, now applied to 175,000 cubic metre LNG carrier designs approved in principle by Bureau Veritas.
Pioneered Moss spherical tank carriers in Japan and had built 29 of them by the end of 2014, from 19,400 up to 177,000 cubic metres, with its own Kawasaki Panel insulation system.
A Norwegian LNG shipowner in the trade since 2004, with vessels delivered after 2016 using ME-GI propulsion and full reliquefaction.
Designs the high-pressure ME-GI and low-pressure ME-GA two-stroke dual-fuel engines used to propel LNG carriers on boil-off gas.
Operates 31 LNG carriers alongside very large ethane carriers and floating storage units, with more than three decades in LNG transport.
The LNG arm of the Angelicoussis Group, and the first Greek owner to order and operate LNG ships, with a newbuilding series on order at Hanwha using ME-GI propulsion.
Builds LNG carriers at the Nagasaki works, including the Sayaendo and Sayaringo STaGE generations, having delivered its first spherical-tank carrier in 1983.
Owns, manages and operates LNG carriers, in the trade since 1983, and was the first Asian operator of an ice-breaking carrier on the Yamal route.
Owns and operates LNG carriers directly and through joint ventures, including vessels chartered to TotalEnergies, QatarEnergy and Cheniere.
The largest LNG shipowner in the world, with 69 LNG carriers including 14 Q-Max and 31 Q-Flex vessels, carrying most of Qatar's exports.
Owns and operates floating LNG import terminals and regasification units, and its Fast LNG floating liquefaction asset produces about 1.4 Mtpa off Altamira, Mexico.
Makes cryogenic submerged motor pumps, where pump and motor sit inside the liquid so nothing can leak, used as feed and booster pumps on terminals, carriers and floating units.
Builds LNG carriers including the 266,200 cubic metre class and electric-driven designs, and states the largest share of the LNG carrier market.
Makes marine submerged LNG cargo pumps, supplying its first in 1992 and holding the leading share of that market, alongside cargo oil pumps and drive turbines.
Designs and builds cryogenic marine loading arms and transfer systems for LNG, including footless arms for floating liquefaction and the ARCOS articulated rigid offloading system.
Designs the X-DF low-pressure two-stroke dual-fuel engine family that burns cargo boil-off gas, in service since 2016 and widely fitted to LNG carriers.
Builds floating liquefaction facilities, fabricating hull and topside modules in parallel at its own yards, with a standardised 3.5 Mtpa FLNG design.
Supplies integrated cargo handling, fuel gas and boil-off reliquefaction systems for gas carriers, with more than 75 reliquefaction plants installed, plus dual-fuel medium-speed engines.
Entered large LNG carrier construction with two 175,000 cubic metre vessels using GTT Mark III Flex membranes, built at its Yangzi Xinfu yard.
Russia's yard for ice-class LNG tonnage, assembling Arc7 carriers of about 172,600 cubic metres for Arctic projects, with hull sections built abroad.