{"id":10766,"date":"2014-09-19T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2014\/09\/19\/gtt-membrane-systems-for-six-vlecs\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:59:00","slug":"gtt-membrane-systems-for-six-vlecs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/gtt-membrane-systems-for-six-vlecs\/","title":{"rendered":"GTT membrane systems for six VLECs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These new vessels are multi-gas and have been designed to transport ethane, but also several other types of gas, such as propane, butane and propylene. The technology chosen \u2013 GTT\u2019s membrane containment system \u2013 is the proven Mark III insulation system.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i>We are very proud to announce this order which demonstrates GTT\u2019s ability to grow and adapt its offer to other emerging markets. This new multi-gas vessel design will provide operators with an extended flexibility for transporting all types of liquid gas,\u201d said Philippe Berterotti\u00e8re, chairman and CEO, GTT.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to carry ethane from the United States to Asia, these six vessels are expected to be the largest VLECs ever built.<\/p>\n<p>This latest order comes as the shale gas revolution in the US has major consequences in the energy sector, especially with the increasing extraction of ethane. The export of this gas by sea opens significant worldwide opportunities for the petrochemical industry, and construction and operation of vessels dedicated to this will meet growing demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT) is to supply its LNG transportation and storage solution for six Very Large Ethane Carriers (VLECs) being built by Korea\u2019s SHI for an Asian group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}