Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French maritime LNG storage technology company, has received an order from its partner Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company of China for the design of new storage tanks for two Chinese liquefied natural gas carriers.
GTT said that the latest orders were on behalf of Ocean Jade Investment.
Ocean Jade is a joint venture between Hong Kong shipowner Wah Kwong, Chinese leasing company CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping and China Gas Holdings.
GTT will design the tanks of these two vessels, which will each offer a capacity of 175,000 cubic metres.
“The tanks will be fitted with the Mark III Flex membrane containment system developed by GTT,” said the Paris-based company.
The delivery of the vessels is scheduled between the first and the second quarters of 2028.
At the start of July 2024 GTT received another order from the China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard in the eastern province of Jiangsu for the tank design of a new LNG carrier as its orders stack up.
GTT said the order was for the tank design of a new LNG carrier on behalf of Danish ship-owner Celsius with delivery scheduled for the third quarter of 2027.
Qatar expansion orders
At the end of June 2024, GTT received a second wave of orders from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding for sets of tanks for 10 more vessels as part of QatarEnergy’s “Hundred Ships Programme” to handle the deliveries from multiple expansion projects in the Arabian Gulf.
That GTT order for tanks fitted to 10 large LNG carriers brought to 18 the number of Qatari LNG vessels ordered from China with the new generation of storage tanks.
GTT said it would design the tanks for these 10 very large LNG carriers, which will each have five tanks with a total capacity of 271,000 cubic metres capacity.
The tanks will be fitted with the No. 96 Super-plus membrane containment system developed by GTT.
Delivery from GTT is scheduled between the first quarter of 2030 and the fourth quarter of 2031.
GTT earlier received orders in February 2024 for the designs of tanks for eight Qatari LNG carriers, also with five per ship and with total capacity of 271,000 cubic metres.
The eight-ship order was under a “strategic cooperation agreement” with China State Shipbuilding Corp., the leading Chinese shipbuilding group.
Delivery of this batch is scheduled between the second quarter of 2028 and the fourth quarter of 2029.
The ship designs will have the same overall dimensions as the current largest Q-Max ships but with an increased cargo-carrying capacity.
