Single Buoy Moorings Inc.

Adam Bernays

Hein Wille

Jeremy Duncan Stuart Joynson

Antoine Le Cotty

Vincent Alary

The present invention relates to a floating LNG plant () comprising a converted LNG carrier with a hull and a plurality of LNG storage tanks () wherein in that the floating LNG plant () comprises: &#x2014;at least one sponson () on the side of the hull, for creating additional hull volume, &#x2014;process equipment () for LNG processing on the floating LNG plant (), and&#x2014;a reservoir for storing fluids separated during the LNG processing, wherein said reservoir is formed by the ballast tank or in the space reserved for the ballast tank of the original LNG carrier.

Floating LNG plant

Offshore hydrocarbon (e.g. oil) production units that produce considerable contaminated water (produced water), are able to repeatedly dispose of the produced water so each production unit requires only a moderate-sized tank to hold the produced water, and most of the tank storage capacity of the production unit can store hydrocarbons. A mobile water-treatment plant is provided on a converted tanker that sails from one production unit to another one, transferring produced water from the oil production units and separating out contaminants as by settling, to leave clean water that can be dumped into the sea and contaminants that cannot be dumped into the sea. The mobile plant occasionally sails to an on-shore facility where it is allowed to dump contaminants.

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Menton, France

Adam Bernays