Start-up Dreifa Energy expects to choose a shipyard shortly for its pioneering first conversion of a platform supply vessel into an LNG floating regasification unit (FRU).

Dreifa’s Jostein Ueland says the company is in discussions with a small number of shipyards and hopes to “nail down” one, most likely in Asia, for the job of converting the 2,597-gt PSV Blue Betria (built 1983), which Dreifa struck a deal to buy in July.