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Washington-based Puget Energy is the parent company of both state energy utility Puget Sound Energy and Puget LNG, which are building the $310 million facility.<\/p>\n
Puget LNG says the plant located south of Seattle is almost complete with only some electrical and instrumentation work remaining.<\/p>\n
“We are still on track for starting the plant in the first quarter of 2021,” the facility’s developer said. <\/p>\n
Works on the facility’s loading jetty, located at the bottom of the image above, reached completion.<\/p>\n
Puget claims this is the first LNG marine bunkering pier on the west coast of North America.<\/p>\n
The facility has a maximum flow rate of 2,640 gallons per minute or 600 cubic meters per hour, according to the developer.<\/p>\n
This jetty will fuel TOTE Maritime’s converted Orca class vessels serving the shipping route from Tacoma to Alaska.<\/p>\n
Puget also worked with Crowley Maritime on building a bunkering barge that would load the fuel at the jetty.<\/p>\n
The barge would supply LNG via a ship-to-ship method to cruise vessels and other maritime customers in the region.<\/p>\n
Besides the pier, the LNG plant features two truck loading bays. Puget already secured customers by signing a supply deal<\/a> with Potelco and InfraSource Services earlier this year.<\/p>\n Under the deal, Puget will supply over 1 million gallons of LNG per year to the duo that operates a fleet of more than 220 trucks.<\/p>\n The Tacoma plant connects to the Williams Northwest Pipeline sourcing natural gas from Canada’s British Columbia.<\/p>\n Once completed, it will have a liquefaction capacity of 225,000 gallons per day and a storage tank that can hold 8 million gallons of LNG.<\/p>\n The facility will not only serve as an LNG bunkering hub but will also cater to domestic demand supplying Puget Sound Energy\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n About 6 to 8 million gallons will be set aside to provide gas to residential and commercial customers during winter\u2019s peak demand.<\/p>\n Tote\u2019s contract calls for about 900,000 gallons of LNG each week for its two vessels.<\/p>\n The facility has about 875,000 gallons of uncontracted production capacity that will eventually go to other transportation customers.<\/p>\n Puget started building the Tacoma plant in 2016 but it faced several permitting hurdles and a backslash from a local tribe and environmental groups.<\/p>\n The project secured its final approval last year paving the way for the company to finally launch the facility.<\/p>\n The facility will be joining a growing number of LNG bunkering projects in the US aimed at slashing shipping emissions.<\/p>\n At the global scale, the LNG fueling industry has seen a notable rise over the years as infrastructure became more available and shipowners started to opt for LNG-powered vessels.<\/p>\n DNV GL data shows that there are at least 185 LNG-powered vessels in operation around the globe and additional 212 on order<\/p>\n The post Puget on track for Tacoma LNG launch in 2021<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Puget Energy’s LNG unit still expects to fire up its liquefied natural gas facility in the Port of Tacoma on the US West Coast next year. Image: Puget LNG Washington-based Puget Energy is the parent company of both state energy utility Puget Sound Energy and Puget LNG, which are building the $310 million facility. Puget …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[3297,523,9211,1284,2043],"class_list":["post-14005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-launch","tag-lng","tag-puget","tag-tacoma","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/14006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}LNG bunkering but also domestic supply<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n