Mitsui-MAN B&W 7G50ME-C9.5-GIE unit has successfully completed sea trials onboard a liquefied ethylene gas carrier.
- Gaschem Beluga was fitted with the two-stroke gas injection ethane (GIE) engine, which was constructed at Sinopacific Offshore Engineering, China.
- Trials were carried out between Houston and the Bahamas with different loads. No gas leaks occurred.
- Gaschem Beluga then crossed the Atlantic, powered completely by ethane. It has achieved a total of 550 operational hours.
Read more on the press release.
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