09APR2019 - NEWS - Society for Gas as Marine Fuel issues safety notice regarding safe operations of LNG fuelled vessels

The Society for Gas as Marine Fuel (SGMF) has recently issued a formal safety notice regarding the safe operations of LNG-fuelled vessels. SGMF said that it has issued the notice because its Secretariat has received several reports of leakages from dry-disconnect/connect couplings during LNG bunkering operations for 6” and 8” nominal diameter bunkering lines. ‘It is understood that differential movement between supply and receiving bunkering equipment is causing leakages at the dry disconnect/connect coupling sealing face/surface. It is not clear that any design loads are being exceeded whilst this movement is occurring, however it is causing the coupling to leak,’ commented SGMF.

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