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importers of coal but also massive domestic deployment to Vietnam. operational procedures.”
producers, are likely to choose different paths. Scale model testing of the Jettyless Floating “We are delighted to have achieved this
While the two most populous nations are Terminal (JFT), the Self-installing Regas important step in the hugely exciting Bac
trying to boost domestic coal output, China Platform (SRP), the Floating Storage Unit Lieu LNG to Power Project, supporting our
is more likely to keep coal front and centre (FSU), and an LNG Carrier was completed at innovative client Delta Offshore Energy.”
of its energy mix given its vast domestic the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands Bobby Quintos, Managing Director, Delta
reserves and the heavy industry that relies on (MARIN) to verify and calibrate Stena’s Offshore Energy added: “The oil and gas
electricity being available and relatively cheap. computer simulations and research, ahead of industry, particularly offshore, developed and
India, which already has substantial construction and deployment of the assets to evolved through innovation and change. This
investment in renewable energy, may turn waters off Bac Lieu Province in Vietnam, the new configuration for LNG regasification and
further away from coal and LNG, given the announcement said. storage builds on the FSRU technology, which
sting of the current price squeeze may be Large-scale models (up to 10m in length) in 2007 everyone thought was crazy. Today we
remembered for longer in the south Asian were created on a scale of 1:30 to obtain test have a more modular system that can easily
nation. results with the highest possible accuracy. be scaled up without having to go to drydock
Various tests were performed by engineers or shipyards. If you are not innovating in this
from both Stena and MARIN to simulate industry, you are falling behind.”
critical wave, wind, and current conditions Bureau Veritas (BV) has recently also
LNG -TO -POWER specific to local conditions in Vietnam, issued an Approval In Principle (AIP) for the
including 100-year cyclonic and monsoon complete LNG receiving facilities engineered
Stena Power & LNG events. by Stena for the DOE project. A similar AIP
has been issued by DNV for the Jettyless
Knut-Erik Johansen, Engineering Manager,
Solutions completes Stena Power & LNG Solutions, said: “We Floating Terminal.
are delighted to have successfully verified
successful model testing the performance of our JFT, SRP, and FSU
through an extensive engineering examination
for Vietnam LNG-to-power with the support of the highly reputable and
experienced engineers at MARIN.”
project weeks in MARIN’s large and highly reputable
“The model testing was carried out over 6
Swedish shipbuilder Stena Power & LNG offshore basin to assist us to finalize the
solutions said on 4 October, that the company design, better understand performance limits
has completed the successful testing of a in a variety of localized wave conditions,
jettyless LNG receiving terminal ahead of and ultimately produce safe and effective

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