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Wärtsilä Supplying Control System for U.S. LNG Bunker Station
Wärtsilä Corp. (Wärtsilä) says it will supply the control system for Harvey Gulf International Marine (Harvey Gulf)'s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuelling facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The Port Fourchon, Louisiana facility will serve Harvey Gulf's fleet of LNG-powered platform supply vessels (PSVs) and will also have the capacity to bunker LNG-fuelled cargo ships operating it the region.
Wärtsilä will supply control cabinets, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), computers, software programming, and service commissioning for the facility, with delivery scheduled for November.
The systems will allow the fuelling process to be fully controlled from the control rooms of the PSVs, making the fuelling safer and more efficient than it would otherwise be.
"The Harvey Gulf PSVs are to be fitted with the Wärtsilä LNGPac gas control system, so it was natural that the same basic technology should also be used for the shore fuelling facility," said Joe Amyot, sales director of Wärtsilä Ship Power.
"There is a growing need for an LNG fuelling infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico, so this represents an important step forward.
"Both Harvey Gulf and Wärtsilä are fully committed to promoting environmentally sustainable operations, and by facilitating the use of LNG as a marine fuel, this philosophy is clearly enhanced."
Harvey Gulf began construction on the $25 million facility, which it said will be the first of its kind in the U.S., early this year.
