Qatar-based Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) shipyard has completed drydocking and repairs for floating storage and regasification unit FSRU Exquisite.
N-KOM’s work on the FRSU also included ballast water treatment system retrofit, various equipment, and systems overhaul, with modification and testing.
The vessel has been providing LNG regasification services in Pakistan; at the country’s first such facility.
Qatar’s LNG shipper Nakilat and U.S. floating LNG player Excelerate Energy own the FSRU Exquisite through a joint venture ever since 2018.
The FSRU has a cargo-carrying capacity of 150,900 cubic metres. Also, its peak regasification rate is 690 million cubic feet per day. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering built it in South Korea and delivered it back in 2009.
In December 2020, Nakilat assumed the technical ship management and operations of the FSRU Exquisite . It took over from Excelerate Technical Management (ETM).
This is the second N-KOM’s FSRU repair, with the sister vessel FSRU Excelerate repaired at the shipyard back in 2019.