The Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co. Ltd has chosen the engineering firm GTT for the tank design of an LNG bunkering vessel of 18.600 m3 capacity. The LBV will be operated by Ondimar Transportes Marítimos (Ibaizabal Group) and chartered by TotalEnergies.
The company, specialising in containment systems for transport/ storage of LNG, has received an order in the third quarter of 2024 from its partner Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for the tank design of a new LNG bunkering vessel for Ondimar Transportes Marítimos, a company of the Ibaizabal Group.
Planned to be chartered by the French energy company, TotalEnergies, this LNG bunkering vessel marks Ondimar’s first order for a vessel equipped with a membrane containment system developed by GTT.
Measuring 135.9 meters long and 24.5 meters wide, the delivery of this LNG bunkering vessel is scheduled for the end of 2026.
GTT will design the tanks for the vessel, which will have a total capacity of 18,600 m³.
The tanks will feature the Mark III Flex membrane containment system developed by GTT.
The company, GTT, claims in its statement that “this new order introduces significant improvements in terms of vessel performance with a guaranteed daily Boil-Off rate of 0,16% of vessel volume as well as CO2 emissions reduction compared with the Gas Agility and Gas Vitality vessels, both chartered by TotalEnergies.”
