Dynagas Lng Partners Lp
We are a growth-oriented limited partnership focused on owning and operating
LNG carriers. Our vessels are employed on multi-year time charters, which we
define as charters of two years or more, with international energy companies
such as BG Group, Gazprom and Statoil, providing us with the benefits of stable
cash flows and high utilization rates. We intend to leverage the reputation,
expertise, and relationships of our Sponsor and Dynagas Ltd., our Manager, in
maintaining cost-efficient operations and providing reliable seaborne transportation
services to our charterers. In addition, we intend to make further vessel acquisitions
from our Sponsor and from third parties. There is no guarantee that we will
grow the size of our Fleet or the per unit distributions that we intend to pay
or that we will be able to make further vessel acquisitions from our Sponsor
or third parties.
We believe that we will have the opportunity to grow our business by making
additional acquisitions of LNG carriers from our Sponsor or from third parties.
The LNG carriers that comprise our Fleet have an average age of 5.2 years and
are under time charters with an average remaining term of 5.0 years.
We currently own and operate a fleet of five LNG carriers, consisting of the
three LNG carriers in our Initial Fleet, the Clean Energy, the Ob River and
the Clean Force, and two 2013-built Ice Class LNG carriers that we acquired
from our Sponsor in 2014, the Arctic Aurora and the Yenisei River, which we
refer to collectively as our "Fleet." The vessels in our Fleet are
employed under multi-year charters with BG Group, Gazprom and Statoil with an
average remaining charter term of approximately 5.0 years, as of March 6, 2015.
All of the vessels in our Fleet other than the Clean Energy have been assigned
with Lloyds Register Ice Class notation 1A FS, or Ice Class, designation for
hull and machinery and are fully winterized, which means that they are designed
to call at ice-bound and harsh environment terminals and to withstand temperatures
up to minus 30 degrees Celsius. According to Drewry, only nine LNG carriers,
representing 2.25% of the LNG vessels in the global LNG fleet, have an Ice Class
1A designation or equivalent rating. Moreover, we are the only company in the
world that is currently transiting the Northern Sea Route, which is a shipping
lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean entirely in Arctic waters,
with LNG carriers. In addition, we believe that each of the vessels in our Fleet
is optimally sized with a carrying capacity of between approximately 150,000
and 155,000 cbm, which allows us to maximize operational flexibility as such
medium-to-large size LNG vessels are compatible with most existing LNG terminals
around the world. We believe that these specifications enhance our trading capabilities
and future employment opportunities because they provide greater diversity in
the trading routes available to our charterers.
The Optional Vessels currently consist of five fully winterized newbuilding
LNG carriers, two of which have been contracted to operate under multi-year
charters with Gazprom and Cheniere. Each of the five newbuilds has or is expected
to have upon their delivery the Ice Class designation, or its equivalent, for
hull and machinery. One of these vessels was delivered to our Sponsor in 2013,
two of these vessels were delivered to our Sponsor in 2014, and the remaining
two vessels are scheduled to be delivered to our Sponsor by the second quarter
of 2015. The vessel delivered in 2013 is a sister-vessel with vessels in our
Fleet and the four other vessels each with a carrying capacity of 162,000 cbm
are sister-vessels.