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 (NO_x) 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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