TGE Marine to supply fuel gas system for Chinese LNG bunker vessel

Germany’s TGE Marine has been awarded the contract to design and supply the cargo handling and fuel gas system for a 12,000 m³ LNG bunker vessel by the Chinese shipyard Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co., it said on November 1. The vessel will be owned and operated by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

The bunker vessel will supply its cargo to any LNG fuelled vessel in Chinese waters and will be equipped with two IMO type C cylindrical tanks. An LNG sub-cooling system will also be fitted in order to condition the cargo to -163 °C. Furthermore, the vessel will be equipped with a cold recovery system to utilise the low temperature of the cargo for the ship’s air conditioning system, thereby reducing the overall power consumption, the company said.

CNOOC’s and TGE Marine’s collaboration started in 2015 when the latter designed and supplied the cargo handling and fuel gas system for another CNOOC vessel, the 30,000 m³ LNG carrier Hai Yang Shi You 301, the world’s largest LNG carrier with IMO type C tanks at that time.