GAS-Carriers O - Z > 50,000 CBM ( Part - 4 )
Polar Alaska
See also : Methane Polar & SCF Polar
"Polar Alaska", at the Phillips Petroleum LNG facility at Nikiski Alaska mid 1970's.
( Photo Copyright Don Bodron )
The tanker docks in the slack-water interval between the swift eight-knot tides that rise and fall thirty-two feet in Cook Inlet.Two of the three storage tanks ashore will be-emptied in loading the Polar Alaska to her capacity of 450,000 barrels of liquefied gas.
(Photo National Museum of American History)
A specially designed tanker takes on a loarl of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the company's joint-interest plant in Kenai, Alaska.The LNG is transported to two utilities in Japan. Phillips share of LNG sales from the plant amounts to about 35 billion
cubic feet a year.
(Photo National Museum of American History)
The "Polar Alaska" arrives in Cook Inlet on her maiden voyage to Alaska.(Photo National Museum of American History)
The control room of the highly automated LNG tanker "Polar Alaska".(Photo National Museum of American History)
"Polar Alaska", under construction at the Malmø - Kockums MV, Sweden, May 25th, 1968.
( Photo Copyright Svend )
See for info : SCF Polar