ADNOC Logistics and Services has taken delivery of a newly-build Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), which has been named Hafeet.
The vessel is the first of four dual-fuel engine VLCCs, which can also run on Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). ADNOC L&S has committed approximately $2 billion to building more environmentally-efficient vessels and has successfully reduced the carbon intensity of its owned fleet by more than 20 percent since 2018.
VLCC Hafeet, designed for long-haul voyages to ship crude to customers worldwide, has a length of 336 meters and a deadweight of 300,000 metric tons. It can carry approximately 2 million barrels of crude per voyage.
For comparison, Hafeet is slightly more than one-fourth the size of UAE’s popular mountain Jebel Hafeet, which has a height of 1,249 meters.
The company’s second new VLCC will be delivered later this month, with the third and fourth vessels scheduled for delivery in Q3 and Q4 2023 respectively.
ADNOC L&S expands energy transportation
Captain Abdulkareem Al Masabi, CEO of ADNOC L&S, said: “The addition of Hafeet, the first of four newbuild VLCCs to our expanding ADNOC L&S fleet, will increase our energy transportation capacity in line with our ambitious growth strategy.
“Our strategic investment in new, environmentally efficient vessels reinforces our commitment to more sustainable shipping and to decreasing the carbon intensity of our operations, as we continue to work towards meeting the International Maritime Organisation’s decarbonisation targets of halving annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping by 2050.”
The vessels have been built by Hanwha Ocean, formerly known as Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, at its Okpo Shipyard in Geoje Island, South Korea.
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