VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 47

21-AUGUST-1995

Qatar

First LNG Carrier For Qatargas Launched At Mitsui's Chiba Shipyard

The first of seven LNG carriers, each with a capacity of 135,000 cu. ms.,which were ordered by Qatargas from a Japanese consortium for the transportationof 4mn tons/year of Qatari LNG to Chubu Electric Power Company at Nagoya inJapan beginning in January 1997, was launched at the Chiba Shipyard of MitsuiEngineering and Shipbuilding Company on 30 June, according to the August issueof QGPC's...