<article><p class="lead">Russian state-controlled shipowner Sovcomflot is set to provide two more new LNG carriers to TotalEnergies under long-term charters. </p><p>TotalEnergies has exercised its option for the two carriers under <a href="https://direct.argusmedia.com/newsandanalysis/article/2179144">an earlier charter agreement signed between the two firms</a> for a carrier being built by South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries — <i>Hull 8105</i>. </p><p>The two new carriers — which will be under seven-year charters — will have capacities of 174,000m³ and bring Sovcomflot's LNG orderbook to 21 carriers. Of these 21, 18 are Arc7 ice-class carriers that have been ordered for the 19.8mn t/yr Arctic LNG 2 project from Russian shipyard Zvezda and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. </p><p>And the delivery of the two new carriers will bring Sovcomflot's fleet of 174,000m³ carriers to six, in addition to four 170,000m³ carriers, in what the shipowner calls its Atlanticmax fleet. </p><p class="bylines"><i>By Samuel Good</i></p></article>
