Inventive Taiwanese shipowner Nobu Su has come up with a design for a large floating storage and regasification unit.
The boss of Today Makes Tomorrow is considering converting one or more of the company’s very large ore carriers into an FSRU design he is dubbing the Turtle.
The 190,000-cbm unit would have a 10-metre draft and regas capacity of some 5 million tonnes per annum.
This would make the FSRU by far the largest to date.
The title is currently held by a 173,000-cbm vessel being constructed by Excelerate Energy for Brazil’s Petrobras.
TMT is understood to be pursuing an early first-quarter 2014 delivery date for the converted unit from Hyundai Heavy Industries, which built the original VLOOs.
