Wärtsilä Hamworthy wins third Höegh LNG regas technology contract

Wärtsilä Hamworthy has secured a contract to supply its LNG regasification technology for the third Höegh LNG Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) under construction at Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Working together with Sinopacific Offshore and Engineering (SOE) Wärtsilä Hamworthy will design and supply the system concept whilst the key equipment and fabrication will be supplied by SOE.

SOE is a Chinese, privately owned company based in Qidong, Nantong with commercial and engineering offices in Shanghai. The company specialized in high technology fabrications for the oil and gas industry. Jacques De Chateauvieux controlled Jaccar Holdings has a 25 per cent stake in the company.

The latest partnership between SOE and Wärtsilä Hamworthy follows on from the contract to supply a propane-seawater regasification system for the first two 170,000 cu.m capacity vessels signed in November last year.

Reidar Strande, LNG Business Unit Director, Hamworthy Oil and Gas Systems said: “This contract for Höegh LNG follows on from the joint project with SOE in supplying our regasification module for the converted Golar Khannur. The module concept was a fast-track project allowing the regasification system to be almost complete before lifting onboard the vessel, with very few interfaces. Delivery of this equipment took place in November 2011.”

 April 2, 2012