Sorry. Yes, Ill continue to comment on this. This is a video that we made for how the GBS is
constructed. As I said, we will build the concrete GBS in a dry dock. We use a system called slip forming, which is used on most taller GBS or concrete structures. Very known technology. We will build it in sections and its a continuous
process until it has been completed. This is during the lower part, where we will have the ballast that is covered up by a deck and then comes the top section where actually you see the wall in the middle, which actually serves as a support for what
is coming on top of the process plant. Then we install the membrane tanks or either isolated LNG tanks. We covered it with a new deck, which is called the top slab. And then we bring in the whatever process plant we have. Well, this is a little bit
out of sequence. As I said, we bring in the process plant, most likely, or normally, built as modules, most likely on other fabrication locations. And we lift them up to the GBS to install them and hook them up together so that we have a system. And
then we test it to the extent possible. And then comes the trick: we fill the dry dock with water, take down the outer wall, and then we can easily tow it by tugs to the location where it will be installed.
In our case, we will most likely build it in a dry dock just south of Kakinada Port. So, we will have a 19, 20 kilometer towing distance out to the location
at 20 meters of water inside the Kakinada Port jurisdiction. Then, as I said, we use ballast to make sure that it sinks down, and we will then rest safely on the seabed for the next 40 years.
And then the LNG carriers will come along alongside, and we will pump that LNG into the tanks. So, the GBS serves as the platform, or an artificial island,
for the process plant. It serves as a jetty and also a break water for the carrier, which makes it unique for harsh weather conditions.
And then the gas
is heated up and pumped through a subsea pipeline into land and connected to the gas grid. Next slide please, corporate.
Let me talk a little bit about
our partners.
We have selected AkerSolutions as our main EPCIC contractor. They have done most of the GBS structures in operation in the world today.
Even for the Russian project, they have done the early phase design of the GBS. There is only one of the extra built GBSes, the Ekofisk tank, the first one ever built, in the seventies; that was done by other company. Apart from that, all other
projects, Aker has had some kind of involvement, and actually been the main contractor for most of them.
Together with Aker, Wartsila Gas Solutions will
deliver the regasification system. They have done more than 20 such systems for FSR use, so they are by far the biggest supplier of that kind of system. I think everyone has heard about Aker and, sorry, Siemens Energy. They have installed close to
7,000 gas turbines around the world to date. Both Wartsila and Siemens will work as subcontractors to Aker, so Aker will be the single point contractor for us, which is the best possible bankable solution from our point of view. Next one, please.
People often ask about the competitive landscape. It is a fact that only GBS-based regasification terminal is
actually done by Aker for Adriatic LNG and SNAM Exxon and Qatar Energy. We are the second company taking advantage of that, all Norwegian technology, and putting together a system based on all known parts. But, kind of, we do it because we have to
do it. People havent really looked at that alternative. And I think the reason for that is that all the other companies that are working on offshore solutions for LNG are former or old shipping companies, and these kind of companies tend to
look at only one solution, and that is something we call ship-shaped solutions. Or, actually a ship.
Even when I was [inaudible], I talked to the people,
and actually to my chairman, and said that, Why dont we do a concrete barge, or a steel barge, and submerge it in shallow water? And he said, My Gunnar, we are a shipping company. In this company, we talk, we think about,
ship-shaped solutions.