First LNG stem delivered in Russia

Russian gas supplier Gazprom Neft has delivered the first ever LNG bunker stem to a tanker in Russian waters.

PHOTO: Gazprom Neft's Dmitry Mendeleev bunkering Sovcomflot's Prospekt Koroleva. Sovcomflot

Gazprom Neft’s 5,800 cbm-capacity LNG bunker tanker Dmitry Mendeleev delivered 1,432 cbm of LNG to Sovcomflot’s tanker, Prospekt Koroleva, over four hours in the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga.

Dmitry Mendeleev is also Russia’s first LNG bunker vessel. Gazprom Neft has said it will supply vessels across the Baltic Sea, naming Primorsk and St. Petersburg as options.

“The first side-to-side refueling with liquefied natural gas we made in Russia actually kick-starts the development of a new fuel segment in the domestic shipping industry,” Gazprom Neft deputy chairman Anatoly Cherner said.

Sovcomflot launched a series of LNG-fuelled Aframax tankers from 2018 and has five LNG-fuelled crude oil and oil product tankers under construction.

By Erik Hoffmann

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