The Buoys
Natural gas is discharged via a trunk in the forward part of the vessel which houses the turret buoy mating cone and swivel system adapted for high pressure natural gas. The regassification vessel is capable of staying moored to the transfer system at a location offshore and perform its send-out function in up to severe weather conditions.
The buoy is an integrated single point mooring system. The system will make use of the Submerged Turret Loading or STL turret mooring and transfer system designed by APL - Advanced Production Loading - of Norway. The technology has proved its reliability through many years of nearly uninterupted operation in the North Sea in extremely harsh weather conditions.
