Setting the benchmark for safety

As SVT supplies customers in many different countries, the company faces a wide range of regional standards and safety requirements. SVT is not only familiar with the various regulations, but also in a position to adapt its products to the respective local standards.

Today, SVT is itself setting the standard. For the US American market, the company used safety couplings which automatically close the valves to prevent any gas leaks if the LNG tanker moves too much and there is possibility that the connection to the land-based facility will break.

The system is designed to cope with the worst case scenario, which can take place as incidents in Portugal and the USA have shown; here LNG tankers slipped their moorings due to severe wave movement and the SVT system closed-off the special valves and separated the connection, thereby preventing a gas leak. The loading arms and the installation on the ship were undamaged. This system is now mandatory in the USA and state-of-the-art.

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