History

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7th generation LPG/NH3 Midsize Carriers

• Antwerpen design
  46,000m³ Hyundai, Korea
  First NH3 fuelled MGC

Fast track FLNG solution contracted for LNG exports out of the Republic of Congo

First Full Cargo of Blue Ammonia, delivered from Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia to Varna West Port, Bulgaria

100 Million tons NH3 transported over 4 decades

First NH₃ STS operation, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

Fast track FSRU solution contracted for gas import to the Netherlands

Delivery of the world’s first ordered 88,000 m3 VLGCs with LPG as fuel, Jiangnan, China

Tango FLNG deployed to export LNG from Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

Delivery of world's first barge based FSRU, Wison, China

LLOG’s Delta House Floating production system is named in Ingleside, Texas and is successfully deployed in the GOM with EXMAR’s innovative OPTI® Hull Design and FAST® Riser pull-in method

EXMAR’s first barge-based FLNG is undocked, entering the East China Sea for final assembly and commissioning. EXMAR orders a barge-based floating regasification unit for delivery in 2017.

6th generation LPG/NH3 Midsize Carriers

• 2014 Waasmunster design
  38,000m3 Hyundai, South Korea
• 2015 Kaprijke design
  38,000m3 Hanjin, The Philippines

Delivery and installation of the first Opti® design based FPU (Floating Production Unit) “OPTI-EX” to LLOG in the Gulf of Mexico, USA. Since then, 4 units delivered.

EXMAR enters into alliance with Black & Veatch Corporation of the United States to co-develop a floating liquefaction unit

EXMAR orders 6 pressurised LPG newbuilds of 3500 - 5000 m3 with partner Wah Kwong

First offshore LNG STS Transfer, Excelsior & Excalibur at Scapa Flow off the Orkney Islands in the UK.

5th generation LPG/NH3 Midsize Carriers

• 2006 Libramont design
  38,000m3 DSME, South-Korea

• Delivery of world’s first » FSRU “Excelsior”
• Build up a fleet of 8 FSRUs

Delivery of FPSO “Farwah” Total Libya

Delivery of 138,000 m3 LNGC “Excalibur”

3rd and 4th generation LPG/NH3 Midsize Carriers

• 1990 Sombeke design
  33,600m3 Boelwerf, Belgium
• 1995 Eeklo design
  37,900m3 Kawasaki, Japan

Building and delivery of semi-submersible drilling rig Yatzy built at Boelwerf /Cockerill.
EXMAR purchases Zapata Offshore in 1991, selling its offshore drilling rigs.
Establishment of EXMAR Offshore Company in Houston, Texas, USA in 1995.

• Start of LPG/NH3 activities
• First NH3 Carrier 24,000 m3
• Start of midsize fleet

EXMAR grows in LPG, NH3 and ethylene segments by ordering four midsize vessels, and entering into joint ventures which include VLGCs and ethylene/chemical gas carriers

• 1984 Tielrode design
  25,000m3 Boelwerf, Belgium
• 1990 Chaconia design
  28,000m3 Boelwerf, Belgium

Shipbuilding activity expands under Georges Van Damme, with world’s largest LNG carrier Methania (1978) and the yard’s first LPG vessel Coral Temse (1981)

Boelwerf shipyard is founded by Bernard Boel on river Scheldt near Antwerp