QatarEnergy inaugurated four new conventional-size LNG vessels built in the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard and the Hanwha Ocean Shipyard in the Republic of Korea as part of QatarEnergy’s historic fleet expansion program.
The four new vessels, “Id’asah”, “Nuaijah”, “Umm Swayyah”, and “Lebrethah” are part of 128 total vessels ordered from Korean and Chinese shipyards as part of the largest shipbuilding program in the history of the LNG shipping industry.
The naming of the vessels took place in two separate ceremonies in the city of Geoje, the first of which was held at the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard for the “Id’asah”, the first to be delivered by Samsung.
In the second naming ceremony, which was held at the Hanwha Ocean Shipyard, the first three new LNG vessels to be delivered by Hanwha Ocean as part of this program were named the “Nuaijah”, “Umm Swayyah”, and “Lebrethah”, all of which will shortly join QatarEnergy’s expanding LNG fleet.
The four LNG vessels are the third to sixth units to be delivered under QatarEnergy’s “historic fleet expansion program” the first two of which were named and delivered by Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding in September of this year.
To date, Qatar Energy’s historic LNG carrier program has ordered a total of 128 new vessels from Chinese shipyards and South Korean shipyards, including 104 conventional-sized 174,000 m3 LNG carriers and 24 QC-Max LNG carriers. Korean shipyards have taken orders for a total of 98 vessels, and the rest are all undertaken by Chinese shipyards.