Norway’s Awilco LNG has made a formal application to list on the Oslo Axess.

The stock is to trade under the ticker symbol ALNG.

In May the company signed on to Norway’s over-the-counter list of traded companies after raising some $100 million in an equity private placement earlier in the month to fund its LNG newbuildings.

Awilco launched itself into the LNG shipping sector earlier this year snapping up three 1980s-built, 125,000-cbm LNG carriers which have been renamed the WilGas, WilEnergy and WilPower.

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