As part of its routine dock tasks, an LNG tanker had just emptied its on-board tanks in Singapore after delivering to another country.

A regular maintenance check revealed issues with its tanker that needed urgent welding. This would need to be completed in a controlled environment, with precise levels of temperature and humidity to be upheld.

The ship itself didn’t have the capacity to maintain this and the average temperature hovers around 25-28oC, and the tropical location meant that humidity levels would be contravened without the necessary intervention.

With confined space and no cooling facility, the pressure was on to find a cooling partner they could rely on.