Chart Industries supplies largest European LNG filling station to Germany for cleaner trucking
Chart Industries, the US maker of equipment for the liquefied natural gas and industrial gas sectors, has completed the commissioning of Europe’s largest LNG filling station to help meet rising demand by trucking companies for cleaner fuel to reduce emissions.
Chart of US to supply tanks for LNG-fueled Swedish ships being built at Chinese shipyard
Chart Industries, the maker of equipment for the liquefied natural gas and industrial gas industries, said it was awarded the contract to supply four LNG fuel tanks for the marine fuel-gas systems of two LNG-powered chemical tankers being built at the Wuhu Shipyard on the banks of the Yangtze River in China.
Chart said the contract was awarded on behalf of the owners of the two 22,000 deadweight-ton vessels, Rederi AB Donsotank from Sweden through project company LGM Engineering.
“Each of the 300 cubic metres capacity cryogenic tanks comprise double stainless steel shells with vacuum and perlite insulation,” said Chart.
The US company explained that the tanks would be designed and manufactured at Chart’s Changzhou facility in China and approved by the European maritime classification society, DNV GL.
“Chart’s technology is integral to the increased number of LNG-powered ships on international waters and the bunkering infrastructure required to fuel them,” said Robert Chen, President of Chart’s distribution and storage division for Asia.
Chart, whose headquarters are in the suburbs of Atlanta, has said it continued to see revenue and orders strengthen in particular in the liquefaction, storage and transport markets for global LNG, industrial gas infrastructure and small-scale ventures.
The company is a supplier of equipment to US LNG export projects on the Gulf Coast being developed by Cheniere Energy, Tellurian Inc. and Venture Global.
Chart said on September 10 that it had received full notice to proceed for the production of cold boxes and brazed aluminum heat-exchangers for the Calcasieu Pass LNG export plant being developed by Arlington, Virginia-based Venture Global.
Calcasieu Pass will produce more than 10 million tonnes per annum of LNG and is expected to come on stream in 2022, along with associated facilities, including the TransCameron Pipeline.
Chart’s most recent earnings underpinned the advance of global LNG projects as quarterly revenue increased by 7 percent to $309.6M over the previous three months.
Chart completed its latest acquisition in July 2019 when it took over Harsco Corp.’s Air-X-Changers business, specializing in gas compression coolers.
