Cyprus will use a converted Shell-controlled LNG carrier as a floating storage and regasification unit for its upcoming import project.
Symeon Kassianides, who is chairman of state energy company DEFA, said the consortium of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co, Metron, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group and Wilhelmsen Ship Management will buy a 17-year-old, G-class LNG carrier from Shell Tankers.
Kassianides told the CWC World LNG Summit in Rome that the vessel, the 136,967-cbm LNG carrier Galea (built 2002), will be converted into the FSRU.
