据世界天然气网站8月28日消息 空气润滑制造商Silverstream技术公司已与造船商沪东中华造船集团签署了一份谅解备忘录（MoU），就未来的液化天然气运输船新建项目开展合作。

Silverstream周二表示，谅解备忘录将看到该公司的空气润滑技术整合到沪东中华造船未来液化天然气运输船的新建设计中，以提高运营效率和燃料效率，同时降低燃料成本和排放。

这份谅解备忘录的签署标志着这两个组织之间12个月的深入合作，最终获得了Silverstream对沪东中华造船液化天然气运输船设计技术的批准。

值得注意的是，沪东中华造船是中国最大的液化天然气运输船制造商中国船舶工业总公司（CSSC）的子公司，其船厂可容纳6-8艘船。

据该公司称，谅解备忘录是Silverstream的第一个液化天然气新建项目，标志着人们对亚洲市场上空气润滑系统的兴趣与日俱增。

沪东中华造船首席技术官楼丹平表示：“我们致力于将液化天然气行业最具运营性和最具组织性的新造船推向市场。”

“在过去的12个月里，我们与Silverstream密切合作，发现了空气润滑技术的真正特点，将其与我们的新建液化天然气船的设计结合起来，以及通过其他措施提供最佳性能。”

吴恒磊 编译自 世界天然气

原文如下：

Hudong-Zhonghua LNG carriers to get Silverstream air lubrication tech

Air lubrication manufacturer Silverstream Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua for work on future LNG carrier newbuilds.

Silverstream said on Tuesday that the MoU would see the company‘s air lubrication technology integrated into Hudong-Zhonghua’s newbuilding designs for its future liquefied natural gas carriers to increase operational and fuel efficiencies while reducing fuel costs and emissions.

The signing of the MoU marks 12 months of in-depth collaboration between the two organisations, which culminated in the approval of Silverstream’s technology onto Hudong-Zhonghua’s LNG carrier designs.

It is worth noting that Hudong-Zhonghua is a subsidiary of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), China’s largest manufacturer of LNG carriers with a capacity for six to eight vessels in its yard.

According to the company, the MoU is Silverstream’s first LNG newbuild project and marks a growing interest in air lubrication systems in the Asian market.

Danping Lou, CTO of Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, said: “We are committed to bringing to market the most operational and organizations newbuild vessels for the LNG sector.

“In working closely with Silverstream over the past 12 months, we have seen the real attributes of air lubrication technology and […] it was clear that incorporating it into the designs for our newbuild LNG vessels, in conjunction with other measures, would deliver optimum performance.“