Tanker Carrying Qatari LNG Struck While Transiting Hormuz
(Bloomberg) -- A liquefied natural gas tanker carrying a shipment from Qatar was struck by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to security intelligence firms and ship tracking data, threatening to further disrupt deliveries of the super-chilled fuel through the key waterway.
Security consultancies Vanguard Tech and Marisks identified the ship as the Gaslog Shanghai LNG tanker. The UK Maritime Trade Operations had alerted that a vessel was struck in the strait off the Omani coast overnight, without identifying it. There was no environmental impact so far, the UKMTO said.
The carrier picked up an LNG shipment from Qatar around July 27, and stopped sending a signal on July 31 near the western entrance of Hormuz, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg and Kpler. It appears that the ship wasn’t sending a signal when it was struck in Hormuz. Greece-based Gaslog, which manages the vessel, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment outside of regular business hours.
The shipping manager of the Gaslog Shanghai confirmed that the vessel was hit by an unknown projectile, causing a blackout on the ship, a spokeswoman for the company said in a statement. No one was hurt and the fire caused by the projectile was extinguished.
The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted LNG traffic through the Strait of Hormuz — a conduit for about a fifth of global flows of the super-chilled fuel. In early July, a Qatari LNG tanker was hit near Hormuz, forcing the world’s second largest exporter of the fuel to pause shipments through the waterway for three weeks.
On Saturday, the UKMTO said in a separate alert that another tanker reported seeing an explosion in the water near to it. The vessel wasn’t damaged.
Earlier this week, another Gaslog LNG carrier was hit while in a northern Egyptian port. The Gaslog Salem was struck by a drone on Wednesday at Damietta, security firms said, with no one having claimed for the attack thus far.
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