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The first tanker Eagle Blane is owned by Malaysian shipowner AET, while the second vessel Rainbow Spirit belongs to Teekay’s Altera.<\/p>\n
Eagle Blane recently conducted<\/a> its first LNG bunkering in the port of Rotterdam prior to heading to Amoyfjorden near Stavanger.<\/p>\n Besides LNG, these two vessels also have an oil vapor recovery plant to enable them to collect and use liquefied volatile organic compounds, LVOCs, from the cargo as fuel.<\/p>\n Equinor is now testing both of the vessels near Stavanger to check whether all systems are functioning properly. <\/p>\n “For when placing large heavy vessels adjacent to giant oil platforms, it\u2019s best to be absolutely sure that, among other things, positioning systems are working properly”, the Norwegian company said.<\/p>\n Equinor says the testing is exceeding all of the company’s expectations, especially considering all restrictions on travel, quarantine and obtaining equipment and parts due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n The two vessels are part of a major renewal of Equinor\u2019s fleet as the company is pushing towards green shipping and reducing emissions.<\/p>\n Equinor has a fleet of more than 150 ships working on the Norwegian continental shelf, including supply, anchor handling and standby vessels.<\/p>\n The company expects 14 newbuild vessels to join its fleet in 2020, mostly in the North Sea and two in Brazil.<\/p>\n The post Equinor testing new LNG-powered shuttle tankers<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norwegian energy giant Equinor is testing two newbuild liquefied natural gas-powered shuttle tankers it chartered for operations in the North Sea. Eagle Blane (Image: Inger Johanne Stenberg\/Equinor) The first tanker Eagle Blane is owned by Malaysian shipowner AET, while the second vessel Rainbow Spirit belongs to Teekay’s Altera. Eagle Blane recently conducted its first LNG …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1998,2033,1474,198,1550],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-equinor","tag-lngpowered","tag-shuttle","tag-tankers","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"LNG-powered](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/09143344\/Equinor-testing-LNG-powered-shuttle-tankers.jpg\")