RINa to class first offshore LNG FSRU
Italian ship classification society, Registro Italiano Navale (RINa) has been chosen to class the first offshore floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), currently under conversion at Drydocks World – Dubai.
natural gas (LNG) terminals with the decision by OLT Offshore LNG Toscana SpA to choose it as the first classification society in the world to class a true offshore floating LNG FSRU. RINa will provide studies and support for a number of further offshore LNG projects, including the newbuilding which is likely to be the world’s second offshore LNG FSRU. The OLT development will see the 138,000m3 Moss-type Golar Frost converted into a 3.75 billion m3/year FSRU, moored in 120m of water off Italy’s west coast port of Livorno. It will act as a receiving terminal for importing LNG, regasifying the LNG and pumping it into Italy’s gas grid. Speaking of the development at the
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Mare Forum Houston conference, RINa’s general manager – Americas, Massimo Volta, said: “Italy leads the world in implementing offshore LNG terminals. We have recently brought the Adriatic LNG terminal on stream, and we have five more live projects for floating and gravity-based offshore LNG terminals around our coasts. RINa is involved with all these in a number of ways, and our expertise is now being sought by other countries developing offshore LNG projects. We are very proud to have been chosen as the first classification society in the world to class a true offshore floating LNG FSRU, for the OLT Offshore LNG Toscana project.” The OLT FSRU is currently under
conversion at Drydocks World – Dubai and will be towed to Livorno at the end of 2010, with the aim of coming on stream in 2011. Conversion works include the fitting of an external turret, along with more than 2400tonnes of regasification equipment. The main
enoa-based classi f icat ion society RINa is leading the market for floating liquefied
Simulation of the OLT FSRU (Credit: RINa SpA/OLT Offshore LNG Toscana SpA).
of service to assist the Triton FSRU project. Triton FSRU will be a 5 billion m3 newbuilding co-developed by GdF-Suez and Höegh. RINa has been closely involved in the
Graphic image of the OLT FSRU (Credit: RINa SpA/OLT Offshore LNG Toscana SpA).
contractor is Saipem, working for the terminal owners – a joint venture between E.ON Ruhrgas, Iride, Golar LNG and OLT Energy. RINa will class the vessel and provide statutory certification on behalf of the Italian government. Through its dedicated oil and gas team it is also providing authority and owner engineering, ship handling stimulation and assistance with local and international regulatory compliance. Following the OLT FSRU, RINa is heavily engaged in providing a range
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development of the 8 billion m3 Adriatic LNG terminal, providing a range of analytical and supervision services, plus assistance with regulatory compliance. This gravity-based concrete terminal was built in Spain, towed to its site in the Adriatic and settled on the seabed in 27m of water, where it came on stream in the second half of 2009. It is jointly owned by Exxon Mobil, Qatar Petroleum and Edison and is believed to be the world’s first offshore LNG terminal. RINa has also recently completed
a feasibility study for a regasification terminal to be built off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. A decision on investment in the terminal will be made later in 2010. OMT
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