Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French maritime LNG storage technology company, has 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.
The Paris-based company said that it would design the tanks of this vessel, which will offer a total cargo capacity of 180,000 cubic metres, and will be fitted with the Mark III Flex membrane containment system.
GTT said that delivery is scheduled for the third quarter of 2027.
At the end of June 2024 GTT received a second wave of orders from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding 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 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.
