TotalEnergies has inked a long-planned charter with Spanish shipowner Ibaizabal Group for an 18,600-cbm LNG bunker vessel newbuilding on order at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) in China.

The French energy major, which ranks itself as the world’s third-largest LNG player, said the vessel “might be deployed in Oman” where the company is building the 1 mtpa Marsa LNG project, which is designed to supply LNG dual-fuelled ships in the region.