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Netherlands to receive floating

LNG plant in early August

TERMINALS A floating LNG (FLNG) plant is expected to charter to provide regasification services. It is
arrive at Eemshaven port in the Netherlands’ currently still moored in Singapore but will begin
Groningen Province in early August, helping its three-month journey to the Netherlands in
the country and the wider region overcome their May.
dependence on Russian gas. S188 will help support European energy secu-
The Netherlands was formerly a net exporter rity in the near term, but Gasunie plans to replace
of natural gas, and swung to becoming an it with a permanent LNG facility at a later stage.
importer in 2018 as a result of the continued This permanent station may also handle green
phase-out of production at the giant Groningen hydrogen in the future, giving it a role to play in
field. The field is due to shut down completely the Dutch energy transition.
next year because of decades of earthquakes “We will now enter further negotiations with
caused by production activities. potential customers,” Ulco Vermeulen, member
The Dutch government has enlisted gas of Gasunie’s board, said in a statement this week.
transmission operator Gasunie to double the “They will be the ones who will be using our ter-
country’s LNG import capacity to 24bn cubic minal in the near future, initially for LNG, and
metres per year in order to wean itself off sup- later for green hydrogen.”
ply from Russia’s Gazprom. Under this plan, the In related news, Tree Energy Solutions (TES)
existing Gate terminal in Rotterdam is due to be announced on April 25 an open season tender
expanded by 5-8 bcm, in addition to an expan- for German LNG imports at a planned termi-
sion agreed earlier that will raise its capacity from nal in Wilhelmshaven. Germany’s various LNG
12 to 13.4 bcm per year by 2024. The Eemshaven projects are finally making concrete progress and
terminal, named EemsEnergyTerminal, mean- fast, following Berlin’s decision to axe the Nord
while, is anticipated to bring ashore about 6 bcm Stream 2 pipeline.
per year of gas. Importers are invited to file a preliminary bid
EemsEnergyTerminal will be connected to in the process to reserve LNG import capacity
existing infrastructure that is currently used by from 2025 onwards. A round for binding offers
the Groningen field, which the Dutch govern- will be held once TES has evaluated non-bind-
ment has refused to keep open for longer in light ing expressions of interest (EoIs). This terminal
of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Exmar’s S188 is also expected to bring ashore clean hydrogen
FLNG plant has been hired under a five-year at a later stage.™
France’s GTT wins LNG tank

design contract from SMI

TANKERS FRANCE’S GTT has won a contract from South technology developed by GTT.
Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries Deliveries of the vessels are scheduled for the
(SMI) to design a tank for a new LNG Carrier second and third quarters of 2024, and the first
(LNGC). quarter of 2025.
GTT said in a statement that the carrier At the start of April, GTT also won a Mark
would have a total LNG tank capacity of 180,000 III containment system contract from SMI to
cubic metres and would be fitted with the Mark design the cryogenic fuel tanks for four LNG-
III Flex membrane containment system, devel- fuelled container vessels.This contract is not
oped by GTT. for the tanks that will carry LNG, in the LNGC,
The announcement follows the award by Chi- but for tanks that will contain LNG that will be
nese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding burned as fuel by container vessels.
(Group) Co. earlier in April of a tank design As well as LNG carriers, the use of the cooled
contract to GTT for four new LNGCs on behalf gas as bunker fuel is a key developing market for
of two ship owners. This order was for 174,000 shipbuilders and developers of cryogenic tech-
cubic metre tanks that will be fitted with the GTT nology such as GTT.™
NO96 L03+ membrane containment system, a

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