Skaugen PetroTrans Inc is the world’s foremost full service lightering companies, providing ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil, products, LPG and LNG mainly in the Gulf of Mexico. Operated as a 50/50 joint venture between I.M. Skaugen and Teekay Shipping Corporation, SPT handles approximately over one million barrels of oil per day – equating to 10 per cent of U.S. seaborne oil imports.