DNV has been accepted as a member of the International Gas Union (IGU) organization. IGU represents 750 of the world’s gas experts and arranges the World Gas Conference every three years. The IGU gas organisation now counts 110 members from 74 nations. DNV, involved in the LNG industry since the 1960s, is currently supporting more than one third of ongoing LNG projects and are classifying more than one fifth of the LNG carrier fleet on order.