Hanwha Ocean has picked TMC Compressors (TMC) to deliver the marine compressed air system to 12 LNG vessels the South Korean shipbuilder is constructing for an undisclosed LNG shipping major.
Under the contract, TMC will supply a complete marine compressed air system consisting of control and service air compressors, to each of the 12 vessels. The newbuild LNG carriers will each have a storage capacity of 174,000 cbm.
“This is a large contract with an impressive shipbuilder that we have collaborated with on hundreds of similar 174k vessels over the past few decades. We look forward to supporting Hanwha Ocean on these 12 vessels too,” says Hans Petter Tanum, TMC’s director of sales and business development.
TMC designs marine compressed air systems solely for offshore and marine use. A key part of strategy is to supply compressors that the vessel crew can easily maintain themselves while at sea. This will also be the case for the deliveries to Hanwha Ocean.
“It is too expensive for a vessel to go to port or send a technical offshore when you need to maintain a compressor. That is why we design them with ease of maintenance in mind, in addition to energy efficiency of course,” adds Hans Petter Tanum.
TMC is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company has not disclosed the value of the contract with Hanwha Ocean.
TMC’s latest award for supplying 12 LNG vessels that are being built at Hanwha Ocean, comes in the wake of contract awards to deliver similar equipment packages to 15 LNG vessels that are being built at Samsung Heavy Industries, and 17 LNG carriers that are being constructed by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries.
