Awilco LNG Brand Guidelines: A 2011 Oslo LNG Shipper, WilForce & WilPride, Renamed ALNG in 2026

An Awilhelmsen company of 2011.

Awilco LNG, called ALNG ASA since June 2026, is an Oslo shipping company built around a small fleet of LNG carriers. Its website says it was incorporated in February 2011 by Awilco AS, a company in the Awilhelmsen group, “for the purpose of acquiring three second-hand LNG vessels.” Those ships were WilGas, WilPower and WilEnergy, steam-turbine carriers of about 125,000 cubic metres with Moss-type spherical tanks, built in 1983 and 1984 according to English Wikipedia.

The group behind it is much older. Norwegian Wikipedia, citing a 1959 profile in Morgenbladet, says the shipowner Anders Wilhelmsen started his own shipping company, Skips A/S Awilco, in 1939, and rebuilt it as a tanker company after the Second World War; his sons later joined the business, which came to trade under the Awilhelmsen name. The sources used for this guide do not say how its predecessors operated during the occupation of 1940–1945. The company names two other businesses established by Awilco AS that were once listed in Oslo: Awilco Offshore and Ocean HeavyLift.

The new company moved quickly. On 12 May 2011 it signed shipbuilding contracts for two newbuildings, partly financed by a private placement that month, and on 6 September 2011 its shares were listed in Oslo under the ticker ALNG, the company says; English Wikipedia, citing the exchange, places that first listing on Oslo Axess. Both newbuildings arrived in 2013: WilForce on 16 September and WilPride on 28 November, according to the company, each financed through a financial lease.

Two Korean-built carriers.

The fleet has been the same two ships for a decade. WilForce and WilPride are 156,000 cubic-metre TFDE carriers with membrane tanks, built by DSME in South Korea and flagged in Malta, according to the company’s fleet page. MarineLink reported on 11 December 2013 that WilPride had been delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and then sold to Teekay LNG Partners and bareboat chartered back for four years, with a one-year extension option. At that point the company described a five-ship fleet: the two newbuildings and the three older Moss-type carriers.

The older ships went first. WilPower was sold in 2015, and WilGas and WilEnergy in 2016, according to both the company and English Wikipedia. Every ship name has begun with the same Wil- prefix, from WilGas to WilPride.

The financing of the two newer carriers has changed several times. MarineLink reported on 8 January 2020 that Awilco LNG had closed a ten-year sale-and-leaseback facility with CCB Financial Leasing for WilForce and WilPride, with both ships bareboat chartered back to its subsidiaries. In May 2024, LNG Prime reported, it signed a new sale-and-leaseback deal for the pair with China Development Bank Financial Leasing, and on 14 June 2024 the magazine reported that the facility, of up to twelve years, had been completed. At that time, LNG Prime said, the charter for WilPride ran until late 2025, with an option for the charterer to extend it.

Technical management is kept in-house. English Wikipedia names the subsidiary Awilco LNG Technical Management AS; the company’s fleet page now calls it ALNG Technical Management AS and gives it day-to-day technical management of both ships.

Design and documentation.

LNG and gas-carrier owners sell a service rather than a product, and their websites tend to show the ships themselves. Corporate pages lean on deep blues, teals and white, with photographs of carriers at sea, at terminals and in shipyards. The hull type in those pictures — a membrane carrier with its long flat deck, or a Moss-type carrier with its row of spherical tanks — is often the most distinctive image a company has.

The fleet list is the core document. Owners such as GasLog publish each vessel by name, cargo capacity in cubic metres, year built, propulsion and ownership share, and use engine shorthand such as TFDE, X-DF and ME-GI that their customers read at a glance. Floating storage and regasification units, or FSRUs, get their own project pages, usually set out by country and terminal, as BW LNG does for its units in Brazil, Pakistan, El Salvador and the Philippines.

Charter and terminal pages sit alongside investor sections. Listed owners carry results, filings, presentations and governance documents; owners that have gone private often keep the investor pages they built while listed. Sustainability pages report fuel-efficiency targets and new engine types in the companies’ own terms, and are read here as company statements rather than independent findings.

This guide sets out what can be checked about each owner — who founded it, who owns it today, which deals have closed and which are only announced — and marks clearly what rests on the company’s own word. Vessel names, capacities and dates come from dated company pages and trade press; the colours and typefaces shown are an unofficial interpretation, not a brand standard.

From shipowner to trader.

In 2026 the company changed course and name. On 9 March 2026 it announced, in a release carried by Hellenic Shipping News, that it was establishing ALNG Trading AS, a separate subsidiary intended as a “trading and structuring platform” for LNG transactions, and that it had amended its sale-and-leaseback terms with China Development Bank Financial Leasing. Its chief executive described the plan as “the transformation of Awilco LNG ASA from a pure LNG shipping company into a more integrated participant in the LNG value chain.” A private placement to fund the step was conditional on an extraordinary general meeting expected on 30 March 2026; the company’s investor news later records a subsequent offering in May 2026 and new share capital registered on 2 June 2026.

The new name followed. LNG Prime reported on 14 May 2026 that Awilco LNG aimed to change its name to ALNG, and the company says the name changed from “Awilco LNG ASA” to “ALNG ASA” on 3 June 2026. Its shares trade on Euronext Expand under the same ticker, ALNG, it says, and its old web addresses now lead to a new ALNG site, with ALNG Trading on a site of its own. In August 2026 LNG Prime reported that ALNG expected to enter LNG trading with a first transaction by the end of the year; at the time of writing that is an expectation, not a completed deal.

The identity is in transition. The company’s website carries the ALNG name in its page titles and footer while its header still reads Awilco LNG ASA, and its fleet and history pages keep the Wil- ship names from the Awilco years.

For a design guide, Awilco LNG shows how a small shipowner can drop a group name and keep its ships’ naming. Compare Höegh LNG, another Oslo gas shipper that has changed its name, and CoolCo, an LNG carrier owner with offices in Oslo and London. For this guide we use a harbour blue and a sea teal with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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