The globe’s biggest and also most effective semi-submersible crane vessel– Heerema Marine Contractors’ Sleipnir— will start its 45 day initial trip to Spain, after being provided with 3,000 statistics tonnes of cooled LNG. According to Titan LNG, which provided the gas, this is the biggest amount of LNG that has actually ever before been bunkered.
Recently finished by Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas Boulevard, Singapore, shipyard, Sleipnir is made for around the world overseas hefty training. It is furnished with 2 cranes of 10,000 statistics tonnes raising ability each and also an enhanced deck location of 220 meters in size and also 102 meters in size.
Sleipnir has a 96 MW overall primary nuclear power plant, containing twelve 8 MW GUY 8L51/60DF engines, separated over 4 engine spaces (3 engines per engine area). The IMO Tier III certified engines can operating both LNG and also reduced sulfur MGO
The 2 day bunkering of LNG happened 12 miles off the shore ofIndonesia Leiden, Netherlands, based Heerema is the very first shipowner to carry out an LNG bunkering around of the globe, choosing one more Dutch firm, Titan LNG, to perform the procedure. Titan LNG hired the Coral Fraseri readily taken care of by a 3rd Dutch firm, Anthony Veder, as the bunkering vessel.
Coral Fraseri, the latest enhancement of the Anthony Veder little range LNG swimming pool of vessels, packed in Singapore at the SLNG terminal where Titan LNG sourced the gas from Pavilion Gas, the Singaporean gas and also LNG distributor. The Coral Fraseri adhered to the Sleipnir offshore and also executed a ship-to-ship procedure to cool off its storage tanks.
Sleipnir will certainly currently set out for Spain, rounding South Africa’s Cape ofGood Hope In the Mediterranean, Titan LNG will certainly once more provide the Sleipnir utilizing the Coral Fraseri, which that make its flow to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal.
