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Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Company Limited (YZJ). The shipowner is Tarbit Tankers, and the Classification Society is BV.
The complete LNG fuel gas supply system delivered by LGM Engineering includes the design and manufacture of double vacuum insulated LNG fuel tanks with integrated tank connection space (TCS), LNG bunkering station modules, water glycol system, ESD systems, gas detection system, installation guidance, commission, crew training and etc. GLORYHOLDER LIQUEFIED GAS MACHINERY, August 10, 2020
ME-GI engine sails through sea trials
MAN Energy Solutions successful ME-GI (Gas Injection) engine has set a new industrial standard for two-stroke propulsion engines aboard – among others – LNG carriers, container vessels, car carriers and bulk carriers. The ME-GI engine provides ship- owners and operators with a peerless solution within environmentally friendly and high- efficiency, two-stroke technology, without the greenhouse emissions such as methane slip that are characteristic of competing engines.
With the ME-GI engine, two-stroke development has taken a step further by combining the unique properties of multi-fuel combustion and the well-known reliability
of MAN Energy Solutions ME-engine. The Diesel principle not only provides the ME-
GI engine with high operational stability
and efficiency, but also ensures 100% stable and reliable operation during load changes
on gas with just normal additions of pilot-
oil amounts. Furthermore, the ME-GI operational principles features a seamless change-over between gas operation and diesel
operation The ME-GI engine is the most environmentally friendly, technology available within the two-stroke engine segment.
MAN Energy Solutions has also developed an ME-LGI (-Liquid Gas Injection) dual-fuel engine that expands the company’s dual-fuel portfolio, enabling the use of more sustainable fuels such as methanol and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
MAN Energy Solutions has announced that the first ME-GI engine featuring its newly-developed pump vaporiser unit (PVU) has successfully completed LNG gas trials
in Korea. The engine is the first in a series of six neo-Panamax boxships – built by HSHI (Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries), and ordered by Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS), the Singapore-based shipping company – with each powered by individual MAN B&W 11G90ME-GI main engines. CMA CGM has already chartered the vessel, named ‘Tenere’, from EPS.
EPS CEO, Cyril Ducau, stated: “The successful gas and sea trials and the on- schedule delivery of CMA CGM Tenere make for an important MAN and EPS milestone. Three years ago, we committed to investing
in alternative marine fuels, like LNG, to
lead the industry towards decarbonisation and environmental preservation. This commitment included selecting MAN’s high-pressure ME-GI engines, which are highly efficient and, importantly, reduce methane slippage to negligible levels. These vessels will be IMO 2030 compliant years ahead of schedule and will be the cleanest vessels of their category on-the-water today. My sincerest thanks and congratulations to everyone involved in this exciting project.” MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS, August 12, 2020
EUROPE
Work on subsea leg of
Omisalj-Zlobin pipeline
nears completion
Croatian pipeline operator Plinacro said on August 13 that work on the subsea leg of the Omisalj-Zlobin pipeline, which will transport gas from the LNG terminal that is under construction on Krk Island, was nearing completion.
“Yesterday evening we laid pipes on the bottom of the Tihi Kanal near Omisalj on Krk Island thus completing the most demanding works on the 750-metre-long underwater leg of the Omisalj-Zlobin gas pipeline,” Plinacro stated. “This was technically the most complex part of the job of building 16.7km of gas pipelines ... and 120 people were engaged in the works.”
The company said the work had started
on July 27 and that it took one week to lower the pipes into the sea. The final work to install the pipes on the sea floor was completed on August 11-12 at water depths of around 55 metres. Plinacro noted that this was one of the factors behind the complexity of the work involved.
Meanwhile, construction work that
started in December 2019 is going according to schedule, the company added. Plinacro expects the work, which entails an investment of around HRK 430mn, to be wrapped up by the end of 2020, allowing the LNG terminal to enter service – which is planned for January 01, 2021.
The facility will have a regasification capacity of 2.6mn cubic metres per year.
Lithuania’s KN aims at five LNG terminals by 2030
Lithuania’s Klaipedos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil, KN), a state-owned oil and LNG terminal operator, has set its sights on becoming operator of at least five LNG terminals worldwide and a stakeholder in four terminals by 2030.
Beside managing the Klaipeda LNG terminal, KN is also operator of an LNG terminal in the Brazilian port of Acu.
“The goal is to get into the top-three companies operating floating import terminals. And in terms of figures, by 2030. Besides Acu, we also want to have four similar terminals and be stakeholders in at least four terminals,” Darius Silenskis, CEO at Klaipedos
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