Energy major Shell has bunkered a deepsea tanker off Gibraltar in a two-week period that saw operational firsts carried out at new locations in the US and Singapore.
In a video released by Sovcomflot, the 113,000-dwt Lomonosov Prospect (built 2018) can be seen at anchor outside the Port of Gibraltar.
A Shell-chartered, Anthony Veder LNG carrier — the 7,500-cbm Coral Methane (built 2009) — is moored alongside.
Sovcomflot said the Lomonosov Prospect received 847 cbm of LNG as bunkers in a four-hour ship-to-ship operation that was completed on 22 March.
The tanker was en route from Primorsk in the Baltic to Italy.
This is the third LNG bunkering milestone for Shell in the past two weeks as the energy major moves to prove up the global availability of infrastructure for operations at key bunkering hubs.
At the start of the previous week, the Shell-chartered, 4,000-cbm articulated tug barge newbuilding Q-LNG 4000 supplied Sovcomflot's 114,000-dwt Gagarin Prospect (built 2018) with 1,075 cbm of LNG in an 11-hour operation off Port of Canaveral in Florida in the US.
This was the first LNG fuelling of an aframax tanker offshore in the US.
On Wednesday, the 14,812-teu dual-fuelled CMA CGM Scandola (built 2020), which is chartered to CMA CGM, was supplied with 7,100 cbm of LNG by the 7,500-cbm LNG bunker vessel (LNGBV) newbuilding FueLNG Bellina.
The LNGBV is jointly owned by Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) and Shell Eastern Petroleum.
