An LNG carrier that has been converted into a specialised floating storage unit for a Russian midscale LNG project is being offered for charter as delays to the development lengthen.

Chartering sources said the 138,107-cbm Portovyy (built 2003), the former Excel, is showing as open on brokers’ position lists.

But they added that the vessel’s ice belt — a structure that extends out about 1.5