By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 5 -- BP Shipping has awarded a classification contract to Lloyd's Register Group, London, for four 155,000 cu m Technigaz Mk III membrane-type LNG carriers at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea. The fourth ship, Lloyds said, will be built at Hyundai's Samho yard. The contract also includes options for four additional ships.
The vessels will have dual fuel, diesel-electric propulsion—the first LNG ships with this type of propulsion to be built in South Korea. Most LNG carriers worldwide use steam turbines.
The ships will trade in the Atlantic Basin, primarily serving Trinidad and Tobago's Atlantic LNG project, the UK, the US, and Spain.
