MISC Berhad has taken supply of Seri Erlang, its second Very Giant Ethane Provider on the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje in South Korea. Bought by MISC in July 2020, this VLEC is the second of the six contracted VLECs, purpose-built for long-term constitution to Zhejiang Satellite tv for pc Petrochemical Co Ltd.Seri Erlang will be part of her sister vessel -Seri Everest to securely transport ethane from US to China to help STL’s ethane cracker facility in China. Each VLECs are managed by MISC’s shipmanagement arm, Eaglestar Shipmanagement Fuel (S) Pte Ltd.
With greater than 98,000 cbm of whole cargo capability, Seri Erlang is provided with a extremely environment friendly reliquefaction unit and a singular high-pressure ethane gasoline provide system. The newbuild is powered by a MAN B&W 7G60ME-C9.5-GIE Fuel Injection Ethane engine, complemented with the newest Pump Vaporiser Unit, making her one of many only a few vessels on the earth with ethane burning functionality.
Constructed with a cargo containment system for twin cargo loading, Seri Erlang isalso delivered with LNG Prepared notation by ABS the place the VLECcan be upgraded totrade liquefied pure gasoline cargoes sooner or later.
Seri Erlang and Seri Everest shall be joined by their 4 sisters to be delivered all through the primary half of this yr. Upon supply of all of the VLECs, MISC would be the largest transporter of ethane on the earth. Seri Everest which is at the moment the most important working VLEC available in the market was lately recognised as one of many ‘Nice Ships of 2020’ within the Maritime Reporter and Engineering
