8TH ANNUAL LNG WORLD – PERTH – 23RD SEPT 2013

Reliable and cost-effective solutions

for

LNG storage and transport

Thierry CLEMENT
Business Development Manager
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From 1963 to now …
GTT in brief
• An engineering company with more than 50 years of
experience in the design of the Membrane Cargo
Containment Systems

• Independent company with

strong shareholders

• A 370 people company constantly working on on-

going projects and new developments, aiming at
proposing technologies for the development of the
LNG market :
– NO96 and MarkIII are the leading systems for LNGCs and offshore units
– GST system for on-shore tanks
– PLUTO II subsea cryogenic pipeline
 GTT’s role along a project life
• Assistance to Shipowners, Shipyards and Engineering Companies for feasibility and optimization
before contract
Pre-Design • Bills of materials, Equipment pre-sizing…

• After contract, detailed engineering for Cargo Containment System and Cargo Handling System.
Design
• Material specification & certification

• On-site assistance during construction

Construction
• Attendance to gas trials

• Assistance and expert advice during ship operating service

Operations

• Assistance and expert advice during ship maintenance

Maintenance
 Shipping Solutions
IMO Classification of LNG Carriers

Independent tanks Integrated tanks

Type A Type B Type C Membranes

P0≤700mbar P0≤700mbar P0≥2000mbar P0≤700mbar
Full 2ary barrier Partial 2ary barrier No 2ary barrier Full 2ary barrier

Spherical Cylinders GTT NO96

Prismatic GTT MarkIII

GTT CS1
 Membrane
Technology
for LNG storage

NO96
Mark III

5 June 24th 2013

GTT Partners for Shipbuilding
• 23 licensed shipyards for membrane systems:
 Up to 15 membrane vessels delivered in a year for DSME and SHI
 Qualified workforce
 Slot availability
 No need for new investment
 Korean shipyards: between 15 and 18 months between steel cutting and delivery for a 150k
m3 or a 265k m3
 Reduced time in dry-dock: less than 70 days for an LNGC

• Due to competition between numerous

membrane shipyards and several
approved suppliers, membrane allows
significant procurement savings

• Shipyard control both Hull and CCS fabrication:

No risk of schedule delay and no necessity of
complicated logistic chain with associated risks of interruption (transport, integration in
hull, etc)
 LNG Carrier fleet overlook
• For LNGCs, the whole range of ship 300
Ship capacity vs. Delivery year

*1000 m3
capacity is covered by membrane systems 250

200

Ship capacity
Spherical tanks are mainly between 150
125,000m3 and 150,000m3
100

50
• Due to economies of scale, the new range
0
of “conventional” LNGCs is increasing, 1965 1980 1995 2010

today around 155,000m3 to 170,000m3 Spherical Membrane Pressurized Prismatic

 Only 8% of the current fleet,

 But 85% of the current orders 140
140
140
Number of LNG hulls vs. Cargo capacity
120
120
120
100
100

•
100
GTT has introduced smoothly two 80
80
80
60
60
evolutions of its well-known technologies 60
40
40
40
for lower BOR: NO96 Evolution and Mark 20
20
20
00
III Flex (42 orders) 0

Spherical - Delivered
Spherical - Delivered Spherical - On
Spherical order
- On order
Membrane - Delivered Membrane - On order
 FLNG

 LNG Land Storage

 LNG Distribution

 Ship’s LNG fuelling

 Offshore experience with LNG
• 8 NO96 membrane LNG-RV
 Excelerate / Exmar
 classed by BV
 offshore partial filling operations in the Gulf of Mexico and
Massachusetts Bay, delivered between 2005 and 2010.

• 2 MarkIII membrane SRV

 Höegh LNG and GDF Suez
 classed by DNV
 offshore partial filling operations in Massachusetts Bay,
NO96 LNG-RV (top),
delivered in 2009 and 2010. MkIII SRV (bottom)

• One of these LNG-RVs, the 138,000m3 Excellence, has

been operating without interruption in the Gulf of Mexico
during hurricane Katrina in 2005.
 Conversion of membrane vessels into offshore FSUs
Lekas Terminal, Malaysia

 First regas terminal of Malaysia

 To supply gas from Sungai Udang area

 Conversion of two MISC vessels into FSUs (130,000 m3 NO88 LNGCs – Tenaga Satu and Tenaga
Empat), moored at an island jetty

 Terminal launched early June 2012, first gas planned for August 2012
LNG-FPSOs with membrane
• For offshore applications, if required in order to solve sloshing
issues, a solution is to decrease sloshing loads by introducing a
two-row arrangement

• Too-row arrangement provides large benefits, without reducing One-row vs. Two-row arrangement

standard membrane strong points:

 Flat deck
 Optimized hull occupation
 Support for topside modules
 All filling levels in open seas
 Maximized storage availability during maintenance

• On the maintenance side: Shell Prelude FLNG, Australia,

featuring two-row MkIII membrane CCS
 Inspection can be performed on-site; procedures are already available.
 Credibility of a proven system and of the related maintenance
solutions

• Tank construction and topside integration can progress

simultaneously if needed
Petronas FLNG 1,
featuring two-row NO96 membrane CCS
FLNG orders
Shell FLNG

- EPCIC awarded to Technip-SHI consortium

- Prelude gas field
- Production capacity:
 3.5 mtpa of LNG
 0.4 mtpa of LPG

LNG Unlimited, 14/10/2011

- Storage tanks:
 Two-row GTT MarkIII (220,000 m3 LNG)
 Two-row GTT MarkIII (90,000 m3 LPG)

Petronas FLNG 1

- EPCIC awarded to Technip-DSME consortium

- Kanowit gas field
- Production capacity:
 1.2 mtpa of LNG
- Storage tanks:
 Two-row GTT NO96 (177,000 m3 LNG)
 Regas and Liquefaction projects
• Many feasibility studies have been conducted with shipyards and ship-owners, and
major design aspects are understood

• All clients having studied a membrane solution have been confident in the technologies

Type Client Capacity (m3) Shipyard CCS configuration Status

FSRU Höegh LNG 170k HHI One-row MkIII 3 orders

FSRU/RV Golar 160k SHI One-row MkIII 2 orders

RV Excelerate 173.4k DSME One-row NO96 1 order

FLNG Shell 316k SHI Two-row MkIII 1 order

FLNG Petronas/MISC 177k DSME Two-row NO96 1 order

Generic FEED ended

FLNG Höegh LNG 192k DSME Two-row NO96
Projects on-going
FEED ended
FLNG Excelerate 250k / Two-row
Project on-going

FLNG Total 220k / Two-row Concept finalized

Two-row arrangement
Central cofferdam compartment adjunction

Additional strength for topside modules support

Reduced sloshing phenomena

Several geometries, capacities and locations studied

 Various O&G majors, ship-owners, shipyards
and major Classification Societies involved
 Full operability on site even in harsh environments (AiPs)
Two-row transv. Nat. period
One-row transv. Nat. period
Transv. barge resp.
Filling level [%H] Critical filling range Barge response

25%H

15%H

Period [s]
 Two-row arrangement
Sloshing intensity
Acceptable impacts on
the ceiling and chamfers

No impacts even for harsh

conditions

Acceptable impacts on
the longitudinal walls
and chamfers

Sloshing
response

Transv. Longi. Transv. Longi. Transv. Longi.

effects effects effects effects effects effects

Head sea Quartering sea Beam sea

Ship-to-Ship study
Dedicated analysis for the STS studies:

 Sea-keeping computation :
Interaction between FLNG and LNGC L
F N
Wave
L G
 Operating envelope to be calculated based height
N C
on capabilities of loading arms, fenders, G
mooring lines, wind, tugs, relative motions
between both FLNG and LNGC (collision)…

 Sloshing model tests :

Verification that sloshing in the shuttle LNGC does
not bring limitations to the STS operations

Determination of the operating envelope per ship capacity range and per membrane
containment system reinforcement

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 On-site maintenance and inspection
Control of primary and secondary barriers performed while the
tank is in operation
 Continuous gas concentration measurement system
 Thermographic Assessment of Membrane Integrity (secondary
barrier)

Inner hull control:

 Cargo hold side: not exposed to external aggressions (light, oxygen
and humidity)
 Outside face of inner hull (ballast tanks, cofferdam bulkheads...):
possible even if tank filled with LNG

Existing standard LNGC inspection and repair procedures

applicable for on-site intervention
 On-site repairs of membranes and insulation
 On-site repairs on the hull (welding) with the containment system
in place
 Design of offshore scaffolding completed if necessary
GTT Technology for Land storage tank
– Is Proven with 33 tanks in service since 1972
and 2 on order
– Is Reliable (no dyke is required according to
EN 1473 and 14620)
– Is Similar to MARK III technology used for LNG
carriers (synergy and feedback on more harsh
environment)
– Is a Cost saver with 20% less CAPEX compared
to other technology (160K)
– Is a Schedule saver with a gain of 3 to 4
months in over all construction
– Only requires trained operators instead high
skilled welders
– Can be locally produced with GTT assistance
– More and more EPC (14) can proposed GTT
technology under License
Small and Mid-scale LNG Carriers
• Regional Distribution, Coastal Trade, Main River Trade
• Supply to Satellite terminals (consumers), industrial users, LNG Bunker stations
In Service Available Designs

Aman Sendai 18,900m3 32,000 m3 LNG Feeder

Surya Satsuma 22,500m3

16,500 m3 Shallow Draft LNGCs
16,500 m3 Shallow Draft LNG carrier

22
32k LNG feeder

32,000 m3 LNG Carrier

LNG Fueled Ships
 Regulatory constraint SECA zones FutureShip Bunker Scenarios

 OPEX will be another driver

(LNG vs. HFO)

 Several chicken and egg issues:

 LNG production and supply

 Logistics
 Technologies
 Training is a key factor
Source: SEA, 2012

Technologies are available

Type C Market has not decided yet Membrane
X X
1000m³ 5000m³
Membrane Type Bunkering Solutions

Retrofit of a Container vessel :

New section includes:

- a 5.000 m3 LNG tank,
- a gas preparation room and
- additional 100 TEU

Newbuild Ropax vessel:

- 1.700 m3 LNG tank

- Gas preparation room
Supply chain for LNG bunkering
Small LNG Carriers and Bunkering vessels

4,000 m3 LNG Bunker vessel

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Bunker ship 4000 m3 LNG; 1000 m3 MDO

Type C design Membrane design

LOA 106 m 90 m
LBP 99,8 m 85,9 m
Breadth 16,5 m 15,7 m
Depth 9,0 m 9,4 m
Design Draught 5,1 m 5,0 m
Cb 0,75 0,77

Lightship weight 3520 t 2410 t

Design DWT 2900 dwt 2919 dwt
V LNG cargo tanks (100%) 4080 m3 4080 m3

Max filling level in LNG tank 98% 98%

V MDO cargo tanks (100%) 1000 m3 1000 m3
Service speed (85% MCR, 15% sea margin) 12,0 knots 12,0 knots

MCR (propulsion only) 2740 kW 2420 kW

 Conclusion
• Technologies are available to allow the development of LNG solutions.

• Technologies are safe, reliable and cost effective.

• GTT membrane systems with their feed back, with their compact, modular
and cost effective designs are well suited to adapt to any market and
specific constraints of shipping, offshore and onshore applications.

• GTT is willing to support the development of Australia LNG market.

THANK YOU!

Thierry CLEMENT
Business Development Manager

Email: tclement@gtt.fr
Tel: +33 1 30 23 48 28
Mob: +33 6 77 46 14 60