Seatrium has delivered LNGT Turkiye to Karpowership, completing the seventh floating storage and regasification unit conversion under an eight-year programme that began in 2018.
The companies marked the sailaway of LNGT Turkiye on Wednesday. All seven LNG carriers were converted into FSRUs at Seatrium’s Admiralty yard in Singapore.
The programme started with LNGT Africa, followed by LNGT Asia, LNGT Europe, LNGT Antarctica, LNGT Americas, LNGT Oceania and LNGT Turkiye.
The seven units operate with Karpowership’s Powership fleet and provide feed gas to floating power plants across four continents. The conversion programme required integration work involving cryogenic, marine and gas-handling systems.
LNGT Turkiye is the final Karpowership project to be completed at the Admiralty yard before the facility’s scheduled return to the Singaporean authorities by 2028.
In 2025, Karpowership and Seatrium signed a Letter of Intent for three LNG carrier-to-FSRU conversions. One of the projects covered by the agreement has since resulted in a contract for the conversion of LNGT Karadeniz.
Work on LNGT Karadeniz has started under Karpowership’s Kinetics initiative. The FSRU is designed to provide up to 600 million cubic feet per day of regasification capacity using multi-pressure send-out systems.
The Letter of Intent also covers the potential integration of up to six new-generation Powerships.
Ersen Ayanoglu, assistant general manager, LNG investments global shipbuilding at Karpowership, said Seatrium had addressed technical and operational challenges during the companies’ projects.
Alvin Gan, executive vice president, repairs and upgrades at Seatrium, said the company was looking to expand its work with Karpowership beyond FSRU projects to include new-generation Powerships and offshore energy solutions.
