Hanoi-headquartered Delta Offshore Energy (DOE) plans to be among the first to use a new jetty-less LNG import concept developed by Stena Power & LNG Solutions for its planned LNG-to-power project in Vietnam.
The Stena affiliate said it has signed a technology licence agreement with DOE to use its technology for the offshore project located in the Bac Lieu Province in southern Vietnam.
DOE will employ Stena’s floating jetty-less autonomous transfer system (ATS) and self-installing regas platform (SRP) to import LNG and supply gas to the the 3,200MW power plant in the Mekong Delta.
The ATS provides the link between a moored, visiting LNG carrier delivering a cargo and any LNG storage.
The SRP, which has extendable legs to position it on the seabed, can sit alongside a moored floating storage unit vessel.
Consortium partner
A feasibility study on the Bac Lieu LNG-to-power plant project is due to be completed this month, with the target of seeing the development supply power to the grid by 2024.
DOE is leading a consortium of power and infrastructure companies to develop the project. Group company Stena is among those working on the offshore engineering element.
This looks set to be the first commercial application of one of the jetty-less concepts that have been proposed for importing LNG in situations where a traditional floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and any required infrastructure may prove too costly and complex to install.
DOE managing director Bobby Quintos said: “The metocean and tidal conditions in Bac Lieu are very challenging from a traditional FSRU deployment perspective, so we had to collaborate with Stena to think of ‘out-of-the-box solutions’ in order to make this work, thus the development of the jetty-less solution for our project.
“The additional benefits of a lower capex [capital expenditure] and modular design also fits nicely to the DOE model of innovation and efficiency in our LNG to power solutions.
Stena Power & LNG Solutions chief technology officer Svein Hellesmark, who spoke to TradeWinds last month about his company’s new suite of concepts, said: “We have been cooperating closely with DOE on this groundbreaking project for more than two years, which has been an extraordinarily interesting and inspiring journey.”
Quintos added: “We are very pleased to work with Stena to usher in the next technological evolution in offshore LNG re-gas terminals.”
Stena Power & LNG Solutions is a Stena subsidiary located within the group’s shipmanagement and marine services company, Northern Marine Group.
