Work is underway at Drydocks World – Dubai for the company's first Floating Storage Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) conversion project, known as the 'FSRU Livorno' Project.
FSRUs are floating terminals where LNG is stored before being re-gasified on board.
The conversion of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier, 'Golar Frost', into an FSRU, is being handled by the main contractor, Saipem, and will be delivered to OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, a company operating in the Italian gas industry.
'Golar Frost' will be converted into a floating LNG receiving terminal of FSRU type to be permanently moored offshore Livorno, Italy, approximately 19km from the coast in a water depth of about 120 metres and connected to shore through a gas export pipeline.
It will have a storage capacity of 137,000 cubic metres of LNG and a production capacity of 3.75 billion standard cubic metres per annum (bscmpa).
The conversion of the LNG carrier includes fabrication and installation of structures such as turret mooring system, aft thruster compartment, foundations of cranes and loading arms, bilge keel and foundations for equipments. In addition, the unit's external hull, deck and outfitting will be blasted and coated.
The project also involves the installation of a side by side berthing mooring system for the LNG carrier, a loading system, LNG transfer system to regasification plant, a process plant for regasification, utilities including power generation and sea water systems, control, automation and communications systems.
