PRESS RELEASE
15/15
26 October, 2015
RINA Group widens gas sector services
International classification, certification and engineering group RINA has widened its
services to the global gas industry. While its traditional classification society arm
RINA Services has recently approved a new Compressed Natural Gas carrier to aid
the exploitation of marginal fields, the groups’ engineering arm, D’Appolonia, is
delivering geotechnical, social and environmental services to the Mozambique LNG
development.
The gas market and technology are constantly changing, and RINA Services and
D’Appolonia lead those changes. The first offshore FSRU, the first FLNG project, the
first marine CNG ship and the longest offshore pipeline were all delivered with RINA
expertise and assistance.
Mozambique LNG project
D’Appolonia has completed a major near shore site investigation for ENI’s
Mozambique LNG project. The survey included environmental, geophysical and
geotechnical teams, utilizing two jack up platforms, three survey spreads, a mobile
field laboratory and over fifty site personnel. Data will be used for design of the
marine facilities of the terminal and the landfall for the gas pipeline arriving from the
offshore wells. The terminal will consist of gas receiving and processing, liquefaction
facilities, cryogenic storage tanks and loadout facilities to export the liquefied gas via
tankers.
D’Appolonia is also acting as the Independent Environmental and Social Consultant
foreseeing the development of offshore production facilities, subsea gas pipelines,
and onshore LNG processing facilities. D’Appolonia’s Lenders Engineering division is
currently undertaking the Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) for the
Mozambique LNG Project, which is a first of its kind LNG facility on the east coast of
Africa.
Approval in Principle for CNG Carrier
RINA Services has approved in principle the Fincantieri Offshore CNG32000 ship
design which is aimed at delivering a cost-effective solution for monetizing marginal
gas fields using Compressed Natural Gas technology. The vessel has a double-hull
and a cutting-edge system of racks that are separately demountable for in-depth and
safer maintenance.
RINA Services has developed rules to cover the safety issues related to CNG
transportation, with the aid of Approval in Principle and Technology Qualification
certifications to cover the most important aspects relevant to the fitness for service.
Transporting natural gas under pressure as CNG instead of liquefying it offers
advantages of simplicity and much lower cost and so makes viable alternative means
of exploiting isolated or marginal gas fields which will not support a full infrastructure.
The CNG32000 design features a CNG cargo handling system and a CNG storage
system. This entails 500 racks of metallic vessels at 166 bar and 25°C, each rack
accommodating twelve pressure vessels of about 5.35 cu m arranged in ten cargo
holds giving an overall transport volume of 32,000 cu m (1.13 MMscf).
The design follows the recently issued RINA Rules for the Classification of CNG
Carriers and IGF Code, and is supported by extensive risk assessment studies on
the ship safety, safe operations and environmental protection, including collision
studies, which are being carried out in the expected areas where the CNG32000 will
trade.
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D’Appolonia S.p.A provides integrated engineering services to the public and private markets
in the areas of the environment, oil and gas, infrastructure and transport, electronics and
telecommunications. D’Appolonia is part of the RINA Group, a leading international
classification, verification and certification provider.
www.dappolonia.it
RINA Services is the RINA group company which delivers ship classification, and testing,
inspection and certification services. www.rina.org
RINA is a multi-national group which delivers verification, certification, conformity
assessment, marine classification, environmental enhancement, product testing, site and
vendor supervision, training and engineering consultancy across a wide range of industries
and services. RINA operates through a network of companies covering Marine, Energy,
Infrastructures & Construction, Transport & Logistics, Food & Agriculture, Environment &
Sustainability, Finance & Public Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of
over 330 million Euros in 2014, over 2,750 employees, and 163 offices in 60 countries
worldwide, RINA is recognized as an authoritative member of key international organizations
and an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards.
www.rinagroup.org
Contacts:
Giulia Faravelli
Head of Media & Internal Communication RINA
+39 010 5385505
giulia.faravelli@rina.org
Victoria Silvestri
Media Relations RINA
+39 010 5385555
victoria.silvestri@rina.org
Distributed by:
John Guy
Merlin Corporate Communications
+44 1903 50 20 50
john@merlinco.com