Dhaka, May 29 -- Liquefied natural gas (LNG) unloading and re-gasification has come under nature's wrath again as at least a couple of LNG-carrying vessels failed to complete ship-to-ship transfer of the fuel to floating storage and re-gasification units (FSRUs) due to rough weather in the Bay of Bengal.

State-run Petrobangla kept the vessels anchored at the pilot boarding station (PBS), some 10-12 kilometres from the FSRU, for safety reasons, its Chairman Md Rezanur Rahman told The Financial Express Thursday.

One of the vessels, carrying fuel from Oman's OQ Trading, could transfer around 85 per cent of the LNG to one of the FSRUs on the Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal until May 27 midnight when the weather started to become rou...