PETALING JAYA: AET, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MISC Bhd, has completed its first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering in the United States, working in coordination with Shell to refuel the LNG dual-fuel Aframax tanker Pacific Ruby outside Port Canaveral in Florida.

       The transfer of 600 tonnes of marine LNG onto the 113,305-deadweight tonne (DWT) petroleum tanker from the Q-LNG 4000 bunker barge was safely and successfully completed within three hours, while the entire bunkering operations took nine hours, AET said in a statement.

       The operation was coordinated by AET and Shell NA LNG LLC, while Pacific Ruby was on its way from Houston bound for Rotterdam.

       AET said its commercial and operations teams out of Houston both commercially and operationally managed the full process with Shell and the crew of Pacific Ruby ensuring efficiency and safety for this first vessel bunkering in the US.