Methane emissions from a Cheniere Energy-chartered LNG carrier shipping a cargo from the US to Europe have been measured in a pioneering study.

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London, working with research group The Collaboratory to Advance Methane Science (CAMS) and Spain’s Enagas, collected data from the 174,000-cbm newbuilding GasLog Galveston.

The ship was on a round trip from Cheniere’s Corpus Christi terminal in Texas to Zeebrugge in Belgium.