The liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier LNG Enterprise, owned by France LNG Shipping (a French ship-owning company jointly owned by NYK and Geogas LNG*) and under a long-term charter contract with TotalEnergies Gas & Power Ltd**, was delivered on September 30, 2021. The vessel was built at Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in Korea.
The LNG carrier will be equipped with a WinGD X-DF diesel engine that can operate on fuel oil or boil off gas stored in its cargo tank. The LNG carrier has a cargo tank capacity of 174,000 cubic meters and a membrane-type tank that will make use of advanced insulating materials*** to reduce the boil-off rate (percentage of gas volume that vaporizes during navigation).
Vessel Particulars:
- Length overall: about 293 meters
- Breadth: about 45.8 meters
- Gross tonnage: 115,408 tons
- Main engine: X-DF diesel engine
- Cargo tank capacity: about 174,000 cubic meters
- Shipbuilder: Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
- Flag: France
*Geogas LNG - Geogas LNG is a subsidiary of the Geogas Group and the infrastructure funds Access Capital Partners and DIF Capital Partners. The Geogas Group owns French flagged LPG carriers trades, worldwide, six million tons of LPG annually..
** TotalEnergies Gas & Power Ltd. - A wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies responsible for procuring and transporting energy for the TotalEnergies Group. https://business.totalenergies.uk/
*** A Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) made tank — i.e., the GTT Mark III flex cargo containment system — that has insulating materials to suppress the boil-off rate.