HOUSTON, TEXAS – Mustang Engineering’s Midstream Group announces that it, along with five partner companies, has developed a proprietary floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for liquefied natural gas (LNG) known as the LNG Smart FSRU System (patents pending). This is a viable offshore alternative for safely, efficiently and economically storing and regasifying LNG. This system incorporates two other LNG Smart Technologies—LNG Smart Vaporization and LNG Smart Storage System—configured on a barge or ship. This system eliminates using sea water for vaporization, addressing U.S. Coast Guard concerns by reducing the potential harmful effects on marine life. It can also reduce fuel gas consumption and NOx and CO2 air emissions by as much as 90%, compared to conventional combustion vaporization. Safety is increased by using horizontal tanks individually surrounded by insulation, an inert atmosphere, and a concrete “cold box” container. Cost and schedule are reduced by fabricating the modular steel storage tanks separately from the concrete containers and hull, and then combining them.

The LNG Smart FSRU System is one of Mustang’s LNG Smart Technologies, composed of products and services that have been developed by a Mustang team of industry-known and respected LNG professionals. FSRU Mustang Project Developer Brad Hubbard has 30 years of LNG and oil & gas development experience. The LNG Smart Technologies are innovative solutions using practical methods, materials and equipment for improving the safety, environmental impact and commercial viability of LNG receiving terminals and liquefaction plants in response to the growing demand for clean natural gas supply.

Mustang Engineering, a Wood Group company, is an independent services provider to the domestic and international oil, gas and chemical industries. Mustang specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project management and construction management of upstream oil and gas facilities and structures, midstream projects, process plants, petrochemicals and chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pipelines, and automation and control projects. Capabilities range from feasibility studies through startup for both onshore and offshore projects. Mustang has offices in Houston; London; Tampa, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Savannah, Georgia; Monroe, Louisiana; Martinez, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Philadelphia.