Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP), a partnership between Seapath Group and Pilot LNG, LLC, has joined the SEA-LNG coalition to reinforce LNG provide infrastructure and prolong its world attain. The announcement of GLBP in September 2023 launched the primary devoted facility on the US Gulf Coast for fueling LNG-powered vessels, with an anticipated operational launch in late 2026, in keeping with a press launch.
Situated at Shoal Level in Texas Metropolis, inside the Houston-Galveston port complicated, GLBP is strategically positioned to function a central hub for cruise ship LNG bunkering within the US and worldwide ship-to-ship bunkering and cool-down providers. To satisfy the rising demand for LNG in North America and the Gulf of Mexico, GLBP will present cost-effective turn-key LNG provide options.
Jonathan Prepare dinner, CEO of Pilot, stated: “With an preliminary funding of roughly $180 million, our LNG bunkering facility will provide a significant world and US commerce hall with cleaner marine gasoline. We acknowledge that SEA-LNG is a number one associate and a key piece of the LNG bunkering sector and can give us entry to insights and experience throughout the complete LNG provide chain.”
On the environmental advantages of LNG, Prepare dinner added: “LNG helps environmental targets and human well being by providing ship operators speedy reductions in CO2 emissions and nearly eliminating dangerous native emissions of sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter.”
Joshua Lubarsky, president of Seapath, acknowledged: “We’re more than happy to be supporting the decarbonization of the maritime business by way of strategic and far wanted, investments into the availability of different fuels. We’re additionally completely satisfied to be part of SEA-LNG, which has executed a beautiful job advocating for developments in know-how on this very important sector.”
Peter Keller, chairman of SEA-LNG, commented: “We’re proud to welcome one other main LNG provider to the coalition and are trying ahead to a mutually helpful relationship. With each funding in provide infrastructure within the US and worldwide, the LNG pathway’s head begin will increase. World availability, alongside bio-LNG and e-LNG improvement, makes LNG the sensible and reasonable path to maritime decarbonization.”
Keller additional commented: “All various fuels exist on a pathway from gray, fossil-based fuels to inexperienced, bio or renewable fuels. Inexperienced fuels symbolize a scarce useful resource, and plenty of have scalability points, so we should begin our net-zero journey in the present day with gray fuels. LNG is the one gray gasoline that reduces greenhouse fuel emissions, well-to-wake, so that you want much less inexperienced gasoline than options to enhance emissions efficiency.”
Sooner or later, LNG bunkering infrastructure can be able to delivering bio-LNG and e-LNG to current LNG-fuelled vessels, as and once they develop into out there. These net-zero fuels could be dropped in and blended with gray LNG at any ratio. Due to this fact, GLBP and SEA-LNG acknowledge LNG’s sensible, incremental function in net-zero delivery.
