Seafarers who worked for Energy Transportation Corp (ETC) helped pioneer the global natural gas trade more than 40 years ago.

But their proudest accomplishment did not involve LNG.

In 1980, an ETC-operated ship, the 126,400-cbm LNG Virgo (built 1979), came across a boat adrift in the South China Sea. Lauren Vuong and her family were among the Vietnamese refugees onboard the boat.