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LNG point of view she’s working just perfect- In an oft-quoted, 300-page Danish ly with duel fuel engines. You can con- Maritime Authority LNG feasibility vert and burn whatever. What happens study from 2012 which was sponsored “... I have asked Bergen Engines for technical proposals to when she’s ? nished her three-year con- by the European Union, concerns were tract we’re quite excited to see,” he says, raised that methane emissions from LNG convert those LNG engines into diesel. subduing his sarcasm. “Will we have a engines were still an issue. Methane has need from the client to have her con- as much as 10-times the greenhouse gas

LNG is a big, big … a huge disappointment.” tinue sailing? No, there’s no premium effects as carbon-dioxide. Still, this en- for this installation (of an LNG-capable gine problem has been solved, “in theo- engine).” ry”, according to authoritative shipping

Haavard Ulstein, MD, Island Offshore

Ulstein also seems to suggest that a vi- voices in Norway.

tal potential income stream for some of his offshore vessels, well-stimulation or Battery Power

STIM, is negated because he can’t con- written in),” he says. Ulstein says he’s had a Rolls-Royce offshore. The Viking Lady’s owner, Ei- vert his LNG vessels for the work, ap- Long-term contracts, as with Eides- frequency converter and battery pack on desvik Offshore, has had its revenues parently due to the space requirements halved and is looking at a 25 million kro- vik’s LNG-hydrogen hybrids, had pre- at least one of his vessels for six months of LNG plant. STIM and other well op- ner loss a year after a 145-million-kroner viously helped justify the ship owners’ and has saved on fuel for the generator erations in remote areas — potentially Q2 pro? t in 2015. Eidesvik, with more adoption of climate tech. They and their and propeller peak loads absorbed by the future lifeblood for high-spec ? eets — LNG vessels in her ? eet that the others, charterers had answered calls to curb energy storage unit. With engines run- might also be cut prohibitively short due has three of ? ve in its LNG-? red ? eet global warming, something many have ning “more balanced”, it opens the way to the lack of oceangoing LNG-bunker needing work in 2017. their doubts about. In the past, ? nancial for installing a small electric power plant supply ships, generally only available in help has also come from Norway’s in- next to the frequency converters on each

One of Eidesvik’s vessels is an LNG-

IMO-recognized Emissions Control Ar- battery hybrid and part of a burgeoning novative NOx fund; Oslo’s arm’s length propeller and thruster.

eas (ECA). battery-hybridization wave in Norway national tech-incubator companies (of “That would be for future vessels,” he and Europe, as suppliers begin offering foreign talent in Norway), and a raft says. “They (the supplier) were looking

The “H” in Hurrah of research and special-project money at (newbuilds) from 2025 and onwards. ship owners an energy-conversion pack-

It isn’t just LNG-fueled vessel owners age (or “patch”) to gain some of the ben- aimed mostly at creating “a major con- Battery technology for the massive feeling the pinch. The world’s ? rst LNG- e? ts of energy storage. Yet, the effects of tributor to Europe’s emerging hydrogen power demand that you have on a big hydrogen hybrid, the PSV Viking Lady, battery power in hard times isn’t being industry as a supplier of both hydrogen offshore supply vessel (or a cargo ship) will be out of work by the end of 2016, felt yet: “The interest in batteries is pri- and hydrogen technology”. won’t help you one bit, because it would 10 years after her charterer trumpeted marily good for the oil company to save LNG’s lower carbon and higher hy- only be for the DP vessels. That’s where her hire. The ship’s hydrogen fuel cells fuel costs,” says Saevik. “For us it’s just drogen count makes it an ideal way to it could have an effect.” produce electricity by consuming the an extra installation, an extra investment. curb carbon and grow a new hydrogen hydrogen in LNG, allowing a hybrid to The only advantage (would be) to have a industry. It’s been less than ideal for ship Anda use about half as much LNG fuel while long contract (with a battery conversion owners in need of relief. One local supplier, Anda (meaning

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