LNG – Shipping & Bunkering.

For liquefied gas to find its way from the tanker to the land-based distribution network or to other ships, LNG terminals are needed for the handling. With its work on service packages in and around terminals, Marine Service contributes to the development of a sustainable energy cycle, both for land-based LNG terminals and for FSRUs.

Since the 1960’s Marine Service has been involved in the LNG industry with LNG carrier design consultancy, plan approval and construction supervision for more than 85 LNG carriers as well as floating and land-based LNG terminal consultancy services for a wide range of international clients.

Marine Service has experience in projects ranging from LNG bunker vessels to large LNG, LPG and ethylene carriers.

In addition to LNG, Marine Service is also working on projects with other green fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, Bio-LNG and synthetic methane.

Our services in the field of LNG - transportation & storage:

  • Project management

  • Construction supervision of newbuildings or conversions

  • Plan review and approval

  • Concept design and system layout, FEED studies and consultancy for retrofittings or newbuildings of FRUs and LNG carriers

  • Cryogenic design and calculations

  • Feasibility studies and concepts

  • Specification and tendering procedures (tender specification and evaluation/contract specification)

  • Consultancy concerning rules, environmental aspects and energy efficiency

  • Safety and concept analysis (HAZID, HAZOP, FMECA)

  • RAM studies (reliability, availability, maintainability)

  • LNG terminal design support (for small-scale and large-scale applications)

  • Mooring and ship/shore interface studies

  • Equipment specification and tendering processes (outline-, tender- and contract specification)

FSRU Terminal BRUNSBÜTTEL

The Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) in Brunsbüttel, which has been in operation since the beginning of 2023, can be used to import additional gas to cover Germany's energy needs. The 300-metre-long ship is capable of receiving up to 170,000 cubic meters of LNG from tankers in a single unloading process, regasifying the LNG on board and then feeding it into the German gas grid.

Marine Service is supporting this project with technical expertise - for example in the necessary development of the pier, the required adjustments to the FSRU, the LPG transfer and technical and nautical measures for the interim solution until the new jetty is commissioned.

LNG as Fuel: LNG is considered an environmentally friendly fuel alternative. Marine Service develops optimal solutions for equipping and converting ships.

LNG as Fuel: LNG is considered an environmentally friendly fuel alternative. Marine Service develops optimal solutions for equipping and converting ships.

LNG Transport: Based on traditional LNG transport, we developed the first LNG tank container for ship operations in the world which is a dangerous goods container as well as a bunker.

LNG Transport: Based on traditional LNG transport, we developed the first LNG tank container for ship operations in the world which is a dangerous goods container as well as a bunker.

LNG FSRUs: Marine Service provides various solutions for converting an LNG tanker into an LNG FSRU and supervices the construction work.

LNG FSRUs: Marine Service provides various solutions for converting an LNG tanker into an LNG FSRU and supervices the construction work.

“You can't discover new oceans if you don't have the courage to lose sight of the coast.”

– André Gide, french author (1869-1951)