About us
Trusted for six decades
Engineered for the next
World-leading engineering for liquefied gas systems. We deliver and protect the value behind our customers’ ambitions.
Discuss your requirementsWe are a world-leading provider of cargo handling, reliquefaction, and fuel gas supply systems for the liquefied gas markets
Our environmentally focused technologies improve efficiency and enhance performance, delivering value to customers throughout the vessel’s lifetime.
60
Years of liquefied gas experience
600+
Systems in service across six cargoes
200+
Vessels in active through-life support and service
50+
Patented technologies
We deliver and protect the value behind our customers’ ambitions
Every vessel represents a significant investment, an operating ambition, and a promise of performance.
Our job is to protect that value.
For six decades, Babcock LGE has combined engineering expertise, technology, and deep industry understanding to solve complex challenges in gas handling and energy systems.
From our UK engineering base, we develop technologies and systems that help our customers get more from their vessels, assets, and investments delivering the performance they need today, while creating the capability to evolve tomorrow.
Request our reference listBuilt to perform today Developed to do more tomorrow
Our approach starts with the customer’s ambition.
We understand the operational, commercial and technical challenges behind it, then engineer solutions around the realities of the application, from performance and efficiency to integration, reliability and lifecycle value.
That means we don’t see innovation as technology for its own sake. We develop practical, deployable solutions that perform in the real world and create a platform for what comes next.
Engineering that moves with the industry
Our heritage is rooted in marine gas engineering, with six decades of experience supporting the safe and efficient handling of liquefied gases.
Today, that expertise spans LNG, LPG, ethane, ethylene, ammonia and CO₂, across cargo handling, refrigeration, reliquefaction and fuel-gas systems.
As our customers’ ambitions evolve, so does our technology.
We are developing the next generation of solutions for increasingly efficient, integrated and lower-emission vessels, while extending our capability into new applications and markets.
Explore the challenges we solveOur core capabilities
Innovation
We develop practical technologies that respond to changing cargo, fuel and vessel requirements, turning customer challenges into deployable marine solutions.
Customer-led product development
Proprietary technologies and IP portfolio
Platform design and technology licensing
Future cargo and fuel solutions
Continuous product improvement
Engineering
We combine specialist engineering teams to engineer integrated gas systems for the full design life cycle of the project, in accordance with the customers’ requirements and industry codes and standards.
Process engineering
Product and process safety
Control, instrumentation and electrical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Piping design
Technical governance
Marine classification and regulatory compliance
Procurement
We enable project and operational success by securing high-quality goods and services from a global supplier network, ensuring commercial value, supply continuity, and compliance.
Strategic and operational sourcing
Supplier performance and risk management
Commercial governance and compliance
Quality assurance
Logistics and delivery management
Programme & project management
We coordinate customers, shipyards, suppliers and internal functions to manage technical interfaces and support safe and successful delivery from design through commissioning.
Integration and planning
Programmes and schedule controls
Risk and contract management
Technical and commercial interface management
Quality control
Customer support
Site commissioning
Through-life support
We provide engineering expertise and lifecycle services to support the performance, reliability and availability of each product throughout its operating life.
Operational engineering support
Remote monitoring and analysis
Training and technical support
Spare parts provisions and management
System upgrades
Dry-dock support
Technology built on engineering judgement
Our competitive advantage is not simply the technology we develop. It is the engineering judgement behind it.
We combine proprietary technology and intellectual property with practical experience of complex marine systems, classification, integration and operation.
That enables us to take ideas beyond conception and turn them into systems that customers can specify, build, operate and rely on.
Ready for what comes next
The energy and maritime industries are changing.
New fuels, new cargoes, changing regulations and increasing demands for efficiency are creating new challenges and new opportunities.
Our role is to help customers navigate that change with technology that performs today and is developed to do more tomorrow.
Trusted for six decades. Engineered for the next.
UK engineered
Globally trusted
Babcock LGE is part of Babcock International Group, combining the specialist focus of a technology-led engineering business with the strength, assurance and long-term capability of a major UK engineering organisation.
Our technology is developed and engineered in the UK and deployed internationally through relationships with leading shipyards and shipowners.
We work alongside our customers from the earliest stages of a project, helping them make better technology choices and protect the value of their investments throughout the asset lifecycle.
