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NKK To Build First LNG Carrier

To Use Technigaz Mark III

Membrane-Type Cargo Tank System

NKK Corporation recently an- nounced that it has received an order from Nippon Yusen K.K. (NYK) and Perbadanan Nasional

Shipping Line Berhad (PNSL), Ma- laysia's leading shipping company, to build a 18,000-cubic-meter LNG (liquefied natural gas) carrier. The agreement was signed between

NKK and NYK and PNSL, the ves- sel's joint owners, in Kuala Lum- pur.

The carrier, which will have a steam turbine main engine, is to be built at NKK's Tsu Works, with delivery scheduled for July 1993. It will become the world's first LNG carrier to use the Technigaz Mark

III membrane-type cargo tank sys- tem, based on technology licensed to

NKK by France's Societe Nouvelle

Technigaz in 1971. NKK's extensive

LNG technology, developed over 20 years, will be incorporated in the building of the vessel.

The 426-foot-long by 84-foot- wide LNG carrier has the following features: a compact hull form with- out unused space, ensuring high economic efficiency; freely selecta- ble hull design, enabling optimum tank size and shape; good bridge visibility; excellent maneuverability due to small sail area; easy mainte- nance due to low, flat upper deck; and complete double-hull struc- ture.

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Artist's conception of the LNG carrier that is to be built by NKK.

BOATS & BARGES

Balehi Marine Delivers 1,800-HP Towboat 'Lake Charles'

To Conoco Oil Company

Balehi Marine, Inc., Lacombe,

La., recently delivered the 1,800- horsepower towboat Lake Charles to Conoco Oil Company. Based on

Balehi Marine's standard 1,800- 2,400-hp towboat design, the Lake

Charles has a length of 81 feet, beam of 28 feet, depth of 11 feet and draft of 7 feet 6 inches. She has a fuel oil capacity of 42,200 gallons, lube oil capacity of 337 gallons, dirty oil capacity of 337 gallons and fresh- water capacity of 14,700 gallons.

All steel-hulled boat is powered by twin GM 16V-149 diesel engines driving a pair of four-bladed stain- less steel Kahlenberg propellers via

Twin Disc MG 540 reduction gears with a reduction ratio of 7:1 with 7- inch diameter Aquamet shafting.

Keel cooling is provided by Fern- strum Grid coolers in recessed pock- ets.

Electrical power is supplied by two GM-4-71 diesel-driven genera- tor sets rated at 50 kw at 1,200 rpm, 220 V-AC, three-phase, 60-cycle.

The Lake Charles, yard hull num- ber 56, is fitted with two 40-ton elec- trohydraulic NABRICO winches.

Electronics, searchlights, horns, air compressors, steering, tendering, air conditioning and other major equip- ment will fitted according to the customer's specifications.

Quarters have been provided for a crew of six.

A sister vessel of the Lake

Charles, the Choctaw, is expected to be delivered in January 1991.

The GM-powered towboat Lake Charles is based on a standard Balehi Marine design.

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LAKE CHARLES

Equipment List

Main engines (2) GM

Reduction gears Twin Disc

Generator sets Detroit Diesel

Engine controls Kobelt

Keel cooling Fernstrum

Shafting Aquamet

Propellers Kahlenberg

Bilge & freshwater pressure pumps .... Peabody Barnes

L/O & dirty oil stripping pump Viking

Air compressors Quincy

Steering system . . . . Custom Hydraulics

Searchlights Carlisle & Finch

Compass Danfort

Windshield wiper .... American Bosch

Radar Furuno

VHFs President

Antennae Shakespeare

SSB radio Motorola

Loudhailer Apelco

Winches NABRICO

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