IZAR Delivers LNG Inigo Tapias

IZAR Sestao Shipyard has delivered the LNG Inigo Tapias, which will be operated by the company F. Tapias for Repsol YPF-Gas Natural. After conclusion of tests, carried out by the shipyard in the Gas Natural facilities in Huelva and valued by the shipowner, the ship was delivered completely operative and was delivered a month ahead of schedule.

During the tests, the cargo has reach quantity of 5,000 cu. m. of gas.

The Inigo Tapias has the capacity to transport 138,000 cu. m. of liquefied natural gas at 163 degrees C below 0, in four tanks with a double membrane type No96 as a system of isolation and contention of cargo. Inigo Tapias is the first LNG of this dimension built in Spain and the first of a series of five that IZAR has under construction for Repsol YPF, Gas Natural and Union Fenosa. IZAR is the only shipyard in Europe and among the few in the world, capable of the construction of this type of ship -high technology and added value- and has achieved a strong position in this sector.

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Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 10, Sep 2003

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