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Tokyo gas official of the world's largest online September the LNG carrier
According to kyodo news agency news, on 24 August morning, Japan Tokyo gas company but sleeve pu city in the show is put into use of LNG ship "Horizon date" Energy. The ship is to be put into use in early September, can saying is the world's largest ahead of Tokyo gas show the LNG carrier. The length of 300 meters, can carry about 80000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG), equivalent to about 270000 homes a year of gas usage.
The LNG carrier is internationally recognized as high technology, difficult and high added value of the "three highs" products, the LNG carrier in 162 degrees below zero is under low temperature of liquefied natural gas, is a kind of special ships "sea ice truck, dubbed" super world shipbuilding "crown pearl", at present, only the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Europe a few countries 13 home could build shipyard.
The ship for Tokyo gas subsidiary and Japan, will the company consists of packet is the world's largest LNG tanker, put into use will be mainly after trip in Australia and Japan between. Because the natural gas can be used as a fuel of thermal power generation by nuclear power station, the influence of the service, sold the electric company natural gas sales a trend of increase. Tokyo gas company plans to expand in the future market trends, grasp the liquefied natural gas (LNG) business.