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Purpose

A Floating Offshore Liquefied Gas Terminal provides liquefied gas storage and receives and/or offloads liquefied gas. There are two major variations of offshore liquefied gas terminal: Load Terminals and Discharge Terminals, with various configurations of each.

A Load Terminal receives gas directly from one or more wells or from another offshore facility where it may or may not have been processed. The gas is liquefied in an onboard liquefaction facility and stored for offloading as liquefied gas to a trading liquefied gas carrier. Alternatively, a Load Terminal may receive liquefied gas from a liquefaction plant via a pipeline.

A Discharge Terminal receives liquefied gas from trading liquefied gas carriers and stores it. In such terminals, the stored liquefied gas is normally vaporized in a re-gasification facility and discharged ashore. However, offloading liquefied gas in a lightering operation is also feasible.