Golar LNG is liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas that has been converted temporarily to liquid form for ease of storage or transport....

 shipping company based in London

London

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 and registered in Bermuda

Bermuda

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. The company operates 13 LNG carrier

LNG carrier

An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas . As the LNG market grows rapidly, the fleet of LNG carriers continues to experience tremendous growth.-History:...

s and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange

Oslo Stock Exchange

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 and NASDAQ

NASDAQ

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 and is controlled by John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen, is a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping tycoon, owner of the world's largest oil tanker fleet, and was Norway's richest man until he chose to abandon his Norwegian citizenship and take up a Cypriot passport. Norwegian magazine Kapital listed Fredriksen in 2010 with a...

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History

The company was founded in 1946 as Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Company. In 1970 it entered the LNG segment and was bought by Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

-based Osprey Maritime in 1997. In 2000 the Fredriksen-controlled World Shipholding started a take-over of Ospray, completed in 2001 when the LNG segments of Osprey were transferred to Golar LNG. It was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2001 and NASDAQ in 2002.

It operates the world's first regasification vessel Golar Spirit

Golar Spirit

Golar Spirit is a floating storage and regasification vessel . It is the world's first FSRU converted from an liquified natural gas carrier.-History:...

converted from an LNG carrier.