Library·13 Aug 2026
FSRU and LNG tank structure — enough to read an incident
Why a fire on an FSRU is not the same story as a fire on a conventional tanker, and what “containment” actually refers to. Linked from the Damietta piece.
An FSRU is an LNG carrier that has been fitted to send gas ashore. The cargo is still in cryogenic tanks. A deck fire, a projectile, or a grounding is therefore read against containment, ESD, and whether the send-out plant was lined up — not only against hull steel.
Membrane and moss-type tanks fail in different ways. Public photos of “a tank from the inside” after an accident are rare and often mislabelled. Until we publish the longer construction note, treat dramatic images as illustration, not as a survey.
At Damietta the official line is fire contained, no pollution reported, FSRU later grounded and refloated. That is not the same as “the cargo system was undamaged.” We do not have that survey.
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