Yemen LNG Project - Moored ship basin tests

Period:	March 2007-February 2008
Location:	Balhaf, Yemen
Client:	Yemen LNG Company

assignment/short description

The Yemen LNG Company is presently building an LNG plant at Balhaf, Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden.
At this site natural gas that is produced further inland will be liquefied, stored and loaded on board
LNG carriers for export. During past years, several numerical studies have been performed on the
behaviour of the LNG carriers to be moored to this jetty. However, the available numerical models
can only describe an open water situation with a constant water depth and are not able to take into
account the effect of the local bathymetry and the coast line geometry, both on the waves reaching
the vessel, as well as on the resulting motions and mooring loads.

In order to investigate these effects for the site of Balhaf, with its steeply sloping foreshore and complex
coastline geometry, Deltares | Delft Hydraulics in combination with Maritime Research Institute
Netherlands (MARIN) was requested to perform both physical and numerical model tests on the
behaviour of the moored ship in its actual environment.

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