FCX Truflo Rona has secured contracts worth around USD 2.6 million for flow control components on the third innovative regasification vessel to be built. The contract will include the supply of cryogenic ball valves for the LNG cargo containment system and all high-pressure cryogenic valves for the on-board regasification plant. FCX Truflo Rona also supplied the first two vessels in the series – Excelsior and Excellence – with cryogenic ball valves for the cargo containment systems and high-pressure globe valves for the world’s first on-board regasification plant. The third vessel, which is still to be named, is scheduled for delivery between October and December 2006. The carrier is based on a standard 138,000 cubic metre design with various upgrades and modifications including high-pressure pumps, shell and tube vaporisers and oversized boilers which allow them to vaporize their LNG cargoes on board and deliver high pressure gas to downstream pipelines. Although the vessel will have the ability to regasify LNG on board, it will load identically to standard LNG tankers and retain the ability to unload at conventional land-based terminals. This is because the vessels are designed to keep the regasification equipment separate from other systems, and hence its operation does not interfere with general operation.
