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Cryopeak primarily focuses its fuel delivery efforts on the mining industry as well as
for power for remote communities through commercial partnerships that help their customers reduce carbon footprint, lower energy costs and maximize operational efficiencies.
Cryopeak’s Super B-Train is designed to have up to 70 percent greater load capacity than standard trailers operating in Canada today, improving LNG’s competitiveness as
a fuel source for remote mining locations
and communities. Understanding that transportation often represents the largest cost of LNG for customers, Coeur Silvertip was eager to work with Cryopeak on this initiative.
“We are pleased to support the development of the new Super B-Train LNG trailer which will increase LNG payload
and decrease transportation costs of LNG
to the Silvertip mine,” said Rick Loughery, Purchasing Manager for Coeur Silvertip.
Coeur Silvertip has been a pioneer in the use of LNG as a fuel at its remote mine site in Canada.
Typically, remote off-grid mines are powered by diesel or other liquid fuels. Cryopeak has worked with Coeur Silvertip to transition its operations to a more environmentally sound fuel solution of LNG. This transition has displaced high-cost diesel consumption at the mine and lowered the emissions profile.
“Lowering LNG costs through maximising transportation payload is an important initiative for Cryopeak and our customers. We are excited that this technology is now proven and going forward we will seek to extend the operation of this new trailer across Canada,” said Calum McClure, CEO, Cryopeak. CRYOPEAK LNG SOLUTIONS, February 27, 2020
ASIA
VOLCANO announced the
new type gas combustion
unit for LNG-fuelled vessel
VOLCANO announced the new gas combustion unit for LNG-fuelled vessel “MECS-GCU” into the global market on March 5th, 2020. VOLCANO gas combustion units have been installed in the two LNG- fuelled Tag boats built in 2015 and 2019.
The new “MECS-GCU” has been expanded product size composition (from 25 to 1,000 kg/h as combustion rate) in order to meet the request from actual ship building projects of LNG-fuelled vessel, including LNG bunkering vessels.
LNG fuel utilisation is expanding in marine field to meet the stricter exhaust
gas regulation, and boil off gas in LNG
tank needs to be processed safely and eco- friendly. “Methane (CH4)”, which is a major component of LNG (liquefied natural gas) fuel has a global warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2). And IGF code, the international standard for gas-fuelled vessels, prohibits LNG-fuelled vessels from releasing combustible gas into the atmosphere. “MECS-GCU” can combust boil off gas from LNG-fuelled vessels and contribute to zero “methane” (CH4) release into the atmosphere.
VOLCANO also announced the new gas/oil simultaneous mixed combustion DF burner “Vignis” for boilers of LNG fueled vessels into the global market on March 5, 2020. “Vignis” has gas/oil simultaneous mixed combustion mode as well as HFO, MGO and LNG combustion mode. The new “Vignis” also equips GCU mode and can be used as GCU (gas combustion unit). VOLCANO DF
burners have wide size composition from 1t/h to 70t/h as the boiler evaporation rate. VOLCANO, March 05, 2020
Russia’s first LNG-powered
passenger ship to be built
in Tatarstan
A Gazprom delegation headed by Vyacheslav Mikhalenko, Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department, took part in the keel-laying ceremony for Chaika LNG, the first passenger ship in Russia to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The event
was held at the shipyard of Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky in Zelenodolsk, Republic of Tatarstan.
The ceremony was also attended by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic
of Tatarstan, Yury Kostin, Director of the Department of State Policy for Maritime and River Transport at the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Andrey Dmitriev, Director General of Gazprom Gazomotornoye Toplivo, Ivan Egorov, Director General of
Ak Bars Holding Company, and Alexander Karpov, Director General of Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky.
The Chaika LNG leisure and sightseeing boat (motor ship) is intended for passenger voyages, including via tourist routes. The vessel, which can accommodate at least 170 people, is expected to be launched as early as this year.
The use of natural gas in river and maritime transport is a new segment of
the NGV market. Today, LNG is the most promising motor fuel for waterborne transport and the most affordable alternative to bunker fuel oil and diesel fuel.
The Republic of Tatarstan is a unique location from a logistics standpoint, and it has robust transport potential in terms of cutting- edge industrial technologies. It is planned that the region will produce LNG-powered tourist ships and Gazprom will be responsible for refuelling said ships.
Vyacheslav Mikhalenko and Rustam Minnikhanov held a meeting in Zelenodolsk on the development of the NGV refuelling network in the Republic of Tatarstan.
It was noted that the number of NGV refuelling units in the region has doubled
to 20 since 2016, including the CNG filling station built in Almetyevsk in late 2019. The amount of gas consumed as a vehicle fuel is growing in Tatarstan: in 2019, consumer sales of gas went up by 39% from 2018 and by 70% from 2017.
GAZPROM, February 27, 2020
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