Chinese Wison Gets Approval for Floating LNG Terminal Design

Chinese Wison Offshore & Marine has received approval in principle (AIP) from Bureau Veritas for its newly-developed large-scale floating LNG storage and regasification terminal, it said August 13.

According to Wison, this is the first large-scale FSRU barge design granted AIP by a classification society featuring scalable storage capacity up to equivalent size of a Q-Max. It features scalable storage capacity from 150,000 m³ to 265,000 m³ and a base case design of 750mn ft³/d (21mn m³/d) regasification capacity expandable to fit project needs. Designed for near-shore/at-shore application, the FSRU can also be deployed offshore with a single point mooring system, Wison said.

Full-size floating LNG terminal solution offers an economical alternative to the conventional LNG regasification vessels especially for markets with long-term demand. The barge design lowers initial capital investments.  

Recently, BV granted AIP for Wison’s 50-MW floating LNG power supply barge. 

Shardul Sharma