Titan LNG conducts SIMOPs LNG bunkering in Belgium

Dutch LNG supplier Titan LNG bunkered a product tanker with 180 mt of fossil LNG during cargo unloading operations at the Port of Ghent in Belgium.

PHOTO: Titan's inland LNG bunker barge, FlexFueler001. Linkedin of Titan

Simultaneous operations (SIMOPs) refer to the process where ships receive LNG bunker fuel while simultaneously unloading cargo. This bunkering method is meant to reduce the docking time for vessels in port.

Titan LNG conducted a ship-to-ship (STS) LNG bunkering operation for the Thun Vettern, a dual-fuel product tanker chartered by the Sweden shipping company Furetank Chartering AB.

The bunkering operation was conducted by Titan’s LNG bunker barge Flexfueler 001, the company said.

LNG (2.750 mtCO2/mt of fuel) has a lower carbon factor than RMG 380 fuel oils (3.114 mtCO2/mt) and MGO (3.206 mtCO2/mt), according to emission factors used in EU MRV regulation. But it has higher well-to-wake emissions than conventional marine fuels, partly because of its higher upstream methane emissions from leakages during extraction, processing and transport.

By Konica Bhatt

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