Japan's MOL Launches Coastal LNG Shuttle Transport Project in Indonesia

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. on Friday announced that it has teamed up with a local partner in Indonesia, PT Pelindo Energi Logistik (PEL) to launch joint operation of the LNG carrier Triputra,

The carrier, which was built in 2000 and has cargo tank capacity of 23,014 m3, conducted the project's first discharging operation at the Port of Benoa on Bali island. It has LNG transport volume of 200,000 - 300,000 tonne per year.

This is the second coastal shuttle transport project following one serving for West Java, for which MOL secured an order in 2011. In that project, a vessel shuttle-transports LNG to the Port of Benoa, and discharges it to a floating storage unit (FSU) moored there.

PEL, the charterer, is working to establish a gas value chain with the new method-transferring LNG discharged to FSU to the floating regasification unit (FRU) moored at the pier. This facility regasifies the LNG and pipes the gas to a power plant on Bali island.