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will meet the growing and diverse LNG needs ASIA EUROPE
of the maritime shipping industry – helping
to reduce emissions in America’s ports and GTT is selected by Hyundai Novatek completes stage
harbors. The Jones Act-compliant ATB barge
will be designed to safely navigate U.S. and Samho Heavy Industries one of getting international
International waters and to provide LNG
refueling (bunkers) to a variety of ships as well to design the tanks for certification for long-term
as call at terminals. The barge is expected to
go into service in 2024. three LNG-fuelled container CO2 underground storage
“These are exciting times for LNG as a marine
fuel. We are honored to support Centerline vessels with its membrane sites on the Yamal and
to further a more flexible and sustainable
LNG marine bunkering infrastructure here in containment technology Gydan peninsulas
the US,” said Darren Truelock, Vard US vice
president of operations. GTT has received an order from its partner, Novatek’s press centre reported at the start of
With over 225 LNG-fuelled ships in the Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy February that the company had successfully
operation and an additional 400 on order, Industries, for the fuel tank design of three completed the first of three stages to get
the need for providing dependable LNG LNG-fuelled container vessels. international certification for long-term CO2
bunkering solutions in the US is growing These three new vessels, each with a underground storage sites on the Yamal and
rapidly. “As more shipping companies are capacity of 7,900 containers, will be equipped Gydan peninsulas, and that site feasibility
targeting a goal of net-zero emissions, LNG with LNG tanks, each holding up to 6,000 certificates had been issued for the further
is going to play a critical role in providing m3 of LNG used as fuel. The tanks will be study of the sites and subsequent certification
a feasible pathway to that target. Much fitted with the Mark III Flex membrane stages. The certificates issued confirm that the
as we have over the last several decades containment technology, developed by GTT. geological formations within the Ob (Yamal)
with our traditional bunkering operations, The delivery of the three vessels will take place and Tadebiyakhinsky (Gydan) licence areas
Centerline is looking forward to providing in the first half of 2024. have a calculated potential to store at least
our customers with safe and reliable LNG LNG is today the best marine fuel to 600mn tonnes of CO2.
bunkering solutions,” said Ravi Sekhon, preserve air quality, a major public health These storage facilities will be used when
director of engineering and sustainability at issue. It reduces sulphur oxide emissions manufacturing low-carbon products (more
Centerline Logistics. Last year, Centerline by 99%, fine particles by 91% and nitrous than 2mn tonnes per year of ammonia and
announced its Visionary Fuels Initiative. This oxide emissions by 92%. It also reduces ship 19mn tpy of LNG) at the Obsky Gas Chemical
ambitious effort leverages Centerline’s unique CO2 emissions by up to 20% compared to a Complex and Yamal LNG, which is going
and diverse asset list and industry expertise conventional ship. to use ?arbon capture and storage (CCS)
to develop future marine transportation Philippe Berterottière, chairman and CEO technologies, VTB Capital (VTBC) said in a
equipment, standards, and technology of GTT, declared: “We are pleased that our note.
targeted towards improving environmental partner Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries is Novatek might capture up to 4mn tpy of
stewardship and sustainability within reiterating, with this new order, its confidence carbon dioxide as a by-product of ammonia
America’s ports and harbours. in GTT. We are particularly proud that leading (assuming 2mn tpy of ammonia capacity),
CENTERLINE LOGISTICS, February 08, 2022 shipbuilders recognise GTT’s expertise in the according to VTBC.
area of LNG used as fuel.” “The news is positive for company in the
GTT, February 10, 2022 long term and is in line with Novatek’s plans

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