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Navigation Aids

Navaids Light the Way to South Hook LNG

UK based aids to navigation specialist Tideland Signal has supplied a variety of LED lanterns to help ensure the safety of the new ships serving the South Hook LNG Terminal under construction near Milford Haven in Wales.

Some of the new LNG buoys for the South Hook Terminal at Milford Haven.
Some of the new LNG buoys for the South Hook Terminal at Milford Haven.

The first element of the contract consists of five Tideland SolaLED-140 self contained lanterns, two red and two green, for mounting on four lateral buoys in the terminal’s swinging area and one white light for the safe water mark.

SolaLED-140 is a long life, long range LED lantern with a range of 4.5NM and a wide beam lens configuration, making it specially effective in compensating for buoy roll. It incorporates an integral solar panel and a sealed lead acid battery.

SolaLED-140 offers operators a minimal maintenance regime coupled with a service life of seven years on station in the most demanding environments. Long life LEDs and high integrity electronics housed in a tough UV-resistant polycarbonate enclosure ensure that lantern will not need to be opened during its service life and will even withstand being submerged in salt water.

The second element of the contract consists of nine Tideland MLED-RETRO –1 DC light modules for an ongoing programme in which Milford Haven Port Authority is retrofitting its incandescent lanterns with LEDs. The MLED-RETRO –1 DC flasher is a high intensity, single LED light source that allows operators to upgrade to LED technology simply and economically.

South Hook is a multi-million dollar development designed to provide some 20% of the UK's natural gas requirement. The site includes one of the longest jetties in Europe, constructed in the 1960s to serve Esso’s adjacent Herbrandston Refinery, which was subsequently dismantled.

Construction began in 2004 and the new facility will be amongst the world’s largest LNG terminals, with two deep water receiving berths capable of handling 15.6 mtpa of LNG. Six new Q-Max ships with a capacity of up to 265,000m³, carried in five storage tanks are being built in the Far East along with eight smaller Q-Flex vessels. With a ship arriving every two and a half days, the onshore facilities are equipped to offload, store and regasify the LNG and send it out to consumers via the national transmission system via a new 128km pipeline between Milford Haven and Aberdulais. First deliveries are scheduled for early 2008.

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Some of the new LNG buoys for the South Hook Terminal at Milford Haven.

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