LNG

The island state’s latest addition to the Atlantic LNG complex is best described in terms of the national sport, cricket, writes Linda Hutchinson-Jafar in Port of Spain

Trinidad and Tobago, which is about the size of the US state of Delaware, has been pumping out LNG for the US market since the 1990s, but the first cargo from its new Train 4 was delivered to the UK last month, underlining the tiny nation’s emergence as a market-leading Atlantic Basin supplier.

Harald Dany, Atlas Copco Gas & Process, Cologne, Germany

One of the challenging aspects of transporting liquefied natural gas to the growing world market is finding the most efficient way to handle boil-off gas during the carrier’s voyage.

Many LNG carriers have employed steam-turbine propulsion systems fuelled by boil-off. Outside of the area of steam-based propulsion, there is no efficient use of the gas.

At the same time, the good, old steam propulsion has been losing popularity and could actually become “a thing of the past”, some experts have suggested.