French Cryostar informed that it has completed commissioning and testing of its latest six-stage fuel gas compressor on the ‘SK Audace’ LNG tanker, SK Shipping and Marubeni’s newbuild.
The ship, delivered by Samsung Heavy Industries last month, is claimed to be the first LNG carrier fitted with XDF propulsion and is chartered to French energy giant ‘Total’ for Ichthys LNG project.
SK Audace features WinGD X62DF main engines and Wärtsilä 34DF gensets, while Cryostar’s CM6-200 compressors are designed to manage the different fuel gas requirements for each engine type.
The company said in a statement that the trial passed successfully with some minor tuning of control loops and the system operated as planned, although the configuration of machinery and systems represented something of a prototype for XDF.