Two Fairmount tugs have delivered the very first floating “gas plant” in the world, the FSRU Toscana, safely offshore Livorno, Italy.
The Toscana was towed from Dubai via Malta where final equipment was installed. After delivering the Toscana, both Fairmount tugs assisted in mooring the unit to its six pre-installed anchors.
LNG Tanker Converted to FSRU
The Toscana is a so called floating, storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) that is now moored 12 miles offshore Livorno and will be used as a terminal and export point for LNG. The unit is the converted 2004 build 288 meters long LNG tanker Golar Frost. The conversion took place at Drydock World in Dubai for contractor Saipem and client OLT Offshore LNG Toscana SpA.
When fully operational the unit has a re-gasification capacity of 3.75 billion cubic meters a year (11 million cubic meters a day) and a storage capacity of 137,500 cubic meters of LNG.
Towage Operation
For the towage of the FSRU, Fairmount Marine mobilised tugs Fairmount Summit and Fairmount Alpine towards Dubai. After hooking-up the convoy set sail for Malta. In Malta the Toscana had a stopover for final outfittings.
Later, both tugs towed Toscana to its final location offshore Livorno and assisted in mooring the FSRU.
