据世界天然气网站8月19日消息 韩国造船业巨头三星重工（SHI）接到一位未透露姓名买家的订单，将建造10艘阿芙拉型液化天然气燃料原油油轮。

SHI周一表示，这些船只的合同价值7513亿韩元，每艘船约6200万美元。

该公司补充说，到2022年1月，11.3万吨液化天然气燃料油轮将连续交付。值得一提的是，尽管委托人没有透露信息，但SHI称其为“大洋洲船东”。

船舶将配备S-Fugas液化天然气燃料供应系统，该系统在-163摄氏度的温度下蒸发液化天然气，并将其供应给主发动机或发电机。

使用液化天然气燃料船目前是符合国际海事组织（IMO）排放法规的一项流行措施，该法规旨在将硫排放量从3.5%减少到0.5%以下。本规定自2020年1月1日起施行。

就今年的订单而言，SHI通过获得29艘船舶的订单达到了其78亿美元年度目标的54%，这相当于迄今为止包括本合同在内的42亿美元。

今年赢得的合同涉及几种不同类型的船舶，其中大多数是液化天然气运输船和原油油轮，数量分别为11艘和14艘。

三星重工还表示，韩国贸易投资促进署（KOTRA）估计，到2025年以液化天然气为燃料的船舶市场将占全球造船市场的60.3%（约合1085亿美元）。

值得注意的是，SHI上周刚刚赢得了第十一艘液化天然气船的订单。该订单价值1.862亿美元，将用于一艘定于2021年10月交付的船只。

吴恒磊 编译自 世界天然气

原文如下：

Samsung Heavy scoops order for 10 LNG-fuelled crude oil carriers

South Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received orders from an undisclosed buyer to build ten Aframax LNG-fuelled crude oil tankers.

SHI said on Monday that the contract for the vessels was valued at KRW 751.3 billion, which is around $62 million per vessel.

The company added that the 113,000 dwt LNG-fuelled tankers would be delivered by January 2022 in consecutive order. It is worth noting that even though the client was not named, SHI described it as “a shipowner from Oceania.”

The vessels will be equipped with the S-Fugas LNG fuel supply system which vaporizes LNG at the temperature of -163 Celsius and supplies it to main engines or generators.

The use of LNG-fuelled vessels is currently a popular measure to comply with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) emission regulations which are set to reduce sulfur oxide emissions from 3.5 percent to less than 0.5 percent. The regulations are set to take effect from January 1, 2020.

As for orders this year, SHI has been able to achieve 54 percent of its annual target of $7.8 billion by obtaining orders for 29 vessels, equivalent to $4.2 billion so far including this contract.

The contracts won this year were for several different vessel types with the majority being for LNG carriers and crude oil tankers – 11 and 14, respectively.

Samsung also stated that the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) estimated that the LNG-fuelled vessel market will account for 60.3 percent (or around $108.5 billion) of the world’s shipbuilding market by 2025.

It is worth reminding that SHI won an order for the eleventh LNG carrier just last week. The order, valued at $186.2 million, was for a vessel scheduled for delivery in October 2021.