NLI AND ROLLS-ROYCE UNVEIL CONCEPT FOR LARGE VOLUME LNG BUNKER BARGE

摘要

Offshore engineering firm NLI Solutions (NLI) has developed a concept for a LNG bunker barge based on the firm's LNG tank design. The concept has been further developed in a design study together with the marine division of Rolls-Royce and Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS). "With interest in LNG as a marine fuel rapidly increasing, a limiting factor is the practical availability of LNG bunker facilities," commented NLI. "LNG Bunker Barges are often described as the 'missing link' in the LNG supply chain. Today, only one example exists, capable of carrying 187m~3 of LNG, even though ocean-going ships need to bunker several thousand cubic metres."