Taiwanese shipowner Nobu Su plans to offer a fleet of floating liquefaction units to the market by converting his company Today Makes Tomorrow’s very large ore oil carriers.
Nobu, who revealed in June that he had come up with a design for an LNG floater, said he wants to utilise his fleet of eight ‘Whale’ VLOOs. In a piece of “reverse engineering”, the shipowner said he would leave the 319,869-dwt, 2010 to 2011-built vessels’ existing tanks in situ and fit a Mark III-type LNG containment system inside to produce a triple-hulled FLNG unit.
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