SCF Group has clinched time-charter agreements with Shell for two LNG-powered Aframax tankers

PAO Sovcomflot i.e the SCF Group has declared signing time-charter agreements with Shell for two Liquefied natural gas LNG-fuelled Aframax tankers.

The company denoted the agreements to “mark a historic turning point that set new environmental standards for the global tanker industry.

As Ship& Bunker had suggested in November, Sovcomflot had ordered six dual-fuel Aframax tankers enabling plying on LNG bunker fuel.

Evgeny Ambrosov, Senior Executive Vice-President of SCF Group, said “Together, SCF Group and Shell are leading the development and adoption of LNG as a fuel within the tanker industry, committed to significantly reducing the environmental footprint of energy shipping.”

The contracts, signed on February 20 during International Petroleum Week in London, represent the next step in an extensive top-to-bottom collaboration between SCF Group and Shell over the last three years around reducing the environmental footprint of the tanker industry, in particular, by fuelling tankers with LNG.

The new contracts follow the parties’ LNG fuel supply agreement concluded in 2017, which pioneered the expansion of Marine LNG fuelling into the tanker industry and, in general, for vessels not tied to fixed routes or set timetables.