MOL starts coastal LNG shuttle transport project in Indonesia

Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines on Friday revealed it has joined forces with Pelindo Energi Logistic in Indonesia to launch joint operation of the 23,014-cbm LNG carrier Triputra. 

The vessel carried out the first discharge at Pelindo’s 50 mcf/d FRU unit which is part of a mini LNG import terminal project in Indonesia serving a 200 MW power plant in Bali’s Benoa Port.

MOL said this is the second coastal shuttle transport project following one serving for West Java for which MOL secured an order in 2011. In that project, a vessel shuttle-transports LNG to the Port of Benoa, and discharges it to a floating storage unit (FSU) moored there, the company said in its statement.

The 2000-built vessel has been chartered by Pelindo Energi Logistic on a seven-year deal, MOL reveals. It will transport 200,000 to 300,000 tons of LNG per year from the Bontang LNG terminal in Indonesia to Bali.

The LNG discharged at the FSU will be transferred to the FRU which, following regasification, pipes the gas to the power plant.

FSU, together with the delivered FRU, will be operated by JSK Shipping/Humpuss transportation consortium which will also provide LNG to the project, according to Gas Entec, the South Korean engineering company which delivered the FRU.

LNG World News Staff