• 31 Oct 2018

The privately owned Chinese gas distributor ENN Energy Holdings Ltd. has announced that it has ordered an 8,500 cubic meters LNG bunker vessel at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC), the largest Chinese shipyard located in the southern coastal city of Dalian, in the Liaoning Province.

The new 119 meters vessel, that will be delivered in 2020, will have two IMO Type C cargo tank, with the capacity to load up to 8,500 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, a dual-fuel propulsion system. will have  and will be bunkering various vessels as well as provide pre-cooling and gas testing services.

he vessel will operate from ENN’s newly commissioned Zhoushan LNG terminal in Zhejiang Province: the facility, which has the capacity to import up to 3 million ton per year of LNG, received the initial commissioning cargo of 145,500 c.m. in August 2018 and has been testing its cryogenic and regasification systems over the past two months. The ENN Zhoushan terminal has been constructed as a multifunctional LNG installation, able to handle LNG imports, bunkering and distribution, with two 160,000 c.m. storage tanks, a regasification system, a pipeline connection to the provincial grid and a primary jetty able to accommodate LNG carriers of up to 265,000 c.m. of import volumes.

Since April 2015, ENN  manages the Xijiang ENN 01, the first standardised inland waterway LNG bunkering barge in China, which is stationed on the Xijiang River.

Established in 2013, the ENN wholly-owned European subsidiary mainly focuses on providing LNG/CNG fueling services for transportation industry including vehicles and vessels. The company has set up ENN Clean Fuels (new name of LNGEurope) in Netherlands and ENN Clean Energy British Company in UK. ENN Clean Fuels operates 2 LNG stations and has successfully carried out vehicle-ship bunkering services for LNG tug boats.

ENN Clean Fuels, before acquired by ENN Energy and when it was still called LNGEurope, was the protagonist of the first historical supply of LNG performed in the Mediterranean from truck to ship, in March 2014 in the port of Civitavecchia (Italy). The operation was made possible by the intervention of ConferenzaGNL in collaboration with WEC Italy, which proposed the Port Authority of Civitavecchia after received a request for help from LNGEurope. The procurement concerned the tugboat Bokn, owned by the Norwegian shipping company Bube (Buksér og Berging). The Bokn was the second tugboat in the world, after its twin Borgoy to mount a propeller powered exclusively by liquid methane (and not a diesel-gas hybrid). The two tugboats, headed to Norway to serve the Statoil company, were built at the Turkish Sanmar shipyard. The Borgoy in the first trip was towed for much of the Mediterranean.

Source: Fairplay.ihs.com