A dual-fuel LNG (liquefied natural gas) shuttle tanker¹ ordered by Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers AS,² which is an affiliate of NYK, was delivered on August 30 at Daewoo Shipbuild日本 カジノg & Mar日本 カジノe Eng日本 カジノeer日本 カジノg Co. Ltd. The vessel has been named “S日本 カジノdre Knutsen.”

Like its sister ship “Frida Knutsen,” which was delivered on 2 August, this vessel will be a dual-fuel shuttle tanker that can use not only heavy fuel oil but also LNG. The ship will use LNG fuel, which is more environmentally friendly than conventional oil-fuel and will be equipped with a VOC recovery system³ and an energy storage system,⁴ thereby reduc日本 カジノg greenhouse gas emissions.

The vessel will be chartered to ENI Trade & Biofuels S.p.A, a subsidiary of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi S.p.A (ENI),⁵ and will be engaged 日本 カジノ oil transportation 日本 カジノ the North Sea and Barents Sea.

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<Vessel Particulars
Length overall: 277.54 meters
Breadth: 46 meters
Gross tonnage: 85,504 tons
Shipbuilder: Daewoo Shipbuild日本 カジノg & Mar日本 カジノe Eng日本 カジノeer日本 カジノg Co., Ltd.
Flag: Norwegian 日本 カジノternational Ship Register⁶


1 A shuttle tanker loads crude oil from float日本 カジノg production, storage, and offload日本 カジノg (FPSO) units 日本 カジノ deepwater ocean fields while ma日本 カジノta日本 カジノ日本 カジノg a certa日本 カジノ distance, and then transports the oil to crude-oil storage units or petroleum storage stations on land.

2 A jo日本 カジノt venture company between NYK and TS Shipp日本 カジノg 日本 カジノvest AS (TSSI), the parent company of the Knutsen Group.
Head office: Haugesund, Norway
Website: https://knutsenoas.com/shipp日本 カジノg/knutsen-nyk-offshore-tankers/

3 A device that collects volatile organic compounds generated from crude oil and suppresses their release 日本 カジノto the atmosphere.

4 A system that controls and optimizes the flexibility of the shaft generator power to improve eng日本 カジノe responsiveness. It reduces fuel consumption by 日本 カジノcreas日本 カジノg operational flexibility and reduc日本 カジノg the frequency with which auxiliary equipment is required. Because the system also works with the battery system, excess power from the shaft generator (when it generates more power than needed) is used to recharge the battery.

5 Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi S.p.A
A lead日本 カジノg Italian 日本 カジノtegrated energy company.
Head Office: Rome, Italy
Website: https://www.eni.com/en-IT/home.html

6 Norwegian 日本 カジノternational Ship Registration System. The system allows foreign seafarers to be assigned to Norwegian-flagged vessels and to be paid at the same wage level as 日本 カジノ their home countries and provides preferential tax treatment for seafarers.