Samsung nearly quadruples size of largest ethane carriers
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Last month India’s Reliance Industries celebrated the delivery of the Ethane Crystal and Ethane Emerald. With 87,000 cubic meter capacities, the vessels nearly quadruple the previous mark of the world’s largest ethane carriers.
The Crystal and Emerald were built by Samsung, who named them Very Large Ethane Carriers, according to The Maritime Executive.
The vessels will carry liquified ethane from Enterprise Product Patners’ terminal on the Houston Ship Channel to Daheji, India were the gas will supply three Reliance petrochemical plants.
The gas supply comes from Enterprise’s Mont Belvieu fractionation complex in Texas, which is connected to production from the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions by the ATEX pipeline.
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