Shangai-based Wison Offshore & Marine announced that its newly-developed floating storage regasification and power generation barge (W-FSRP) has received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas.
W-FSRP integrates functions of LNG loading and storage facilities, regasification and power generation.
Mr. Maarten Spilker, Senior Solutions Director of Wison Offshore & Marine, stated: “Combining LNG storage, regasification and power generation on a single facility significantly reduces the cost of infrastructure and makes small scale gas-to-power solutions more attractive”.
W-FSRP 50MW is designed to supply 50MW electrical power using LNG as primary fuel and MDO/HFO as backup. The FSRP will be of shallow draft barge type moored at a jetty, inter coastal or alongside river bank where the environmental condition is benign.
Mr. Jiahui Wu, Technical Manager of Bureau Veritas China, said: ‘Bureau Veritas is very pleased to be involved at the very early stage of this 50MW FSRP design and to provide necessary technical assistance to Wison in order to help this Chinese shipyard develop a safe and effective power supply solution by near shore floating facilities to end users.”
Other key features of W-FSRP include integrated on board LNG storage, regasification facility, and power plant, re-gas capacity-10MMSCFD, dual fuel engine and system (in case of unstable LNG supply).
