Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) is to build an LNG bunker tanker for its joint venture FueLNG.

It said the company controlled in tandem with Shell is paying SGD 50m ($40m) for the ship, which it claims will be South-east Asia's first LNG supply vessel.

It is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2020 at Keppel Singmarine.