Excelerate Energy changed the LNG industry with the development of the
Energy Bridge technology which increased the availability of natural gas
to markets around the world that previously had little or no access to
this clean-burning fuel source.
Excelerate Energy’s first buoy-based offshore receiving facility,
Gulf Gateway Deepwater Port (Gulf Gateway) was, and still is, the first
of its kind of LNG receiving facility in the world. Located approximately
116 miles offshore Louisiana, Excelerate Energy selected an open-loop
regasification process which uses the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico
in the vaporization process and will have little impact to the surrounding
marine environment. By minimizing the environmental footprint required
for the installation of its Energy Bridge system as a deepwater port facility,
Gulf Gateway is able to deliver natural gas directly into existing pipeline
infrastructures without the need to construct large on shore storage facilities
that can require hundreds of acres of land to site these facilities.
Excelerate Energy will use a closed-loop regasification process while
operating its second deepwater receiving facility, the Northeast Gateway
Deepwater Port (Northeast Gateway) due to the highly sensitive marine
environment of Massachusetts Bay. This process does not utilize seawater
in its vaporization process and thereby reduces the potential impacts
to the surrounding marine environment.
Through innovation and cooperation, Excelerate Energy has constantly looked
to improve the efficiency of its technology, not only to enhance its commercial
capabilities, but also to protect the environment.
Excelerate Energy currently owns and operates the newest and most environmentally
friendly fleet of LNG vessels in the world. However, during the development
of Northeast Gateway, the company recognized the opportunity to incorporate
even more effective environmental controls into the design of the second-generation
Energy Bridge Regasification Vessels (EBRV) that would call on the port,
located approximately 13 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts. Excelerate
Energy will install state-of-the-art Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)
equipment on its new EBRVs and retrofit its existing fleet, effectively
reducing the Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) emissions from the vessel
by over 90%.
To further protect the environment, Excelerate Energy has developed an
operational process that will reduce the normal shipboard water use during
the regasification process by nearly 98%. A key component to achieving
this reduction was the development of the Heat Recovery System (HRS) which
was incorporated into the engine cooling system of the EBRVs. Like the
SCR systems, the HRS is being installed on each of Excelerate Energy’s
new vessels and retrofitted onto its existing fleet.
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