What's so big about an LNG ship? If you own it, you own the freedom to transport LNG.
Release time:
2025-04-27
The natural gas pipeline is the “network cable” in the example, and the LNG ship is the “hard disk”.
LNG ship (Liquefied Natural Gas), i.e. liquefied natural gas ship.
As a specialized ship that can transport liquefied natural gas at temperatures as low as minus 163 degrees Celsius, LNG ships have always been a “triple-high product” that combines high technology, high difficulty, and high value-added. After the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, the original countries that rely on pipeline transportation of natural gas, the most preferred option left is LNG ships.
LNG ship orders soaring, shipping intelligence provider VesselsValue data show that over the past five years, Chinese shipyards captured the total value of LNG ship orders 10 times, breaking the previous LNG ship orders monopolized by South Korea's situation.
LNG ship, why not it?
Natural gas has undoubtedly become a very critical link in the international energy market.
Less it, the Nordic countries recently how difficult days? You can feel it in the international news through the screen.
In most people's impression, the delivery of natural gas, most often think of pipeline transportation. Not long ago was exposed to “rupture” of the Nord Stream pipeline, is a typical representative of the inside.
But in fact, to realize the freedom of gas, only rely on pipelines, simply not enough. Not to mention that the pipeline transmission route is very fixed, the cost of laying pipelines alone, the relevant regional financial departments will have to tighten their belts. Thus, LNG ships, which are flexible in transportation, were born.
In principle, you can think of an LNG ship as simply a “super refrigerated truck at sea”.
A 160,000 cubic meters of LNG ship, its transportation of liquefied natural gas gas gasification, the volume can be increased to more than 600 times the original, enough for the population of about 24.89 million people in Shanghai for a number of days.
Of course, large capacity is only one of the advantages of LNG ships. The key thing is that it is convenient and efficient.
It's like, you just got a new computer and you need to move 1T of old data from your old hard disk to the new computer. In this case, there are usually two methods, one is to connect the two computers with a network cable, copying against each other; the other, is to directly remove the old hard disk installed on the new computer. Compared to the two methods, obviously the second one is faster.
The natural gas pipeline is the “network cable” in the example, and the LNG ship is the “hard disk”.
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