Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas) has selected Korea Line Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries to build and operate a pair of small LNG carriers to send gas to the nation’s southern island of Jeju for a 20-year period.
Two 7,500 cu m LNG carriers will be built at Samsung Heavy for delivery by early 2019.
The ships are 97 m long, have two tanks and will feature the KC-1, a domestically designed containment system that Korean yards are keen to use to avoid paying licence fees to other gas containment manufacturers.