FSRU & LNG Terminal Engineering with Cryogenic Piping

Converting an LNG carrier to a floating storage and regasification unit adds a regasification plant, seawater or glycol heating systems, export manifolds and, usually, a permanent mooring, to a hull built for trading. The engineering package covers the module foundations and hull strengthening, the changes to tanks and ballast, the stability and longitudinal strength re-assessment, and the class and IGC Code route for the new service. Where the unit is spread- or jetty-moored, the mooring and berthing analyses feed the structural design of the terminal.

LNG service at minus 163 degrees Celsius makes piping stress the governing discipline on any regas or terminal project: thermal contraction, cold-spring, support design and material selection decide the layout. We design and analyse cryogenic lines in CAESAR II to ASME B31.3, specify stainless and nickel-alloy materials and insulation, and design the supports and pipe racks so the marine structure and the piping are engineered together rather than by two contractors.

For onshore and nearshore LNG terminals we deliver the marine works engineering: jetty and dolphin structures, fender and mooring analysis for the design carriers, ship-to-ship transfer studies and the shore-approach pipeline. India’s FSRU-based import capacity and new terminals in South Asia, West Africa and the Mediterranean use exactly this scope, which we deliver from Mumbai.