Facilities for offshore liquefied natural gas floating storage with jack-up platform regasification unit

• Main Authors: LI CHENG XU, LI ZAI XIAN, SHEN HAO JUN, ZHANG ZAI HE, ZHOU XIAN ZHUANG, JIN JI HONG, WEN ZHE ZHEN, WEN JI HAO, WEI GUANG HAO, AN XIU HE, LIANG SHENG MIN, ZHENG XUAN ZHONG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 26.11.2014
• Subjects: BLASTING; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED,LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RELATED EQUIPMENT; SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; STORING OF DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS; TRANSPORTING; VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED ORSOLIDIFIED GASES; WEAPONS

Facilities for offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) floating storage with jack-up platform regasification unit, the facilities including: a jack-up unit comprising legs which have bottom part to be fixable to a sea bed and top part to be exposed to a surface of water, and a hull to be movable up and down with respect to the legs; a storage unit moored at the jack-up unit providing a space for storing LNG; a regasification unit as a module which regasifies the LNG supplied from the storage unit, installed on a top portion of the jack-up unit, separable from the jack-up unit; a utility unit comprising a power source and a sea water pump to supply power and sea water to the regasification unit; and a piping unit comprising unloading pipe for connecting the regasification unit and the storage unit and supplying pipe for carrying natural gas gasified by the regasification unit.