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OSV Operator Cuts Consumption

Stena Line

Stena Line Test Drives AI, Saves Fuel

Stena Lines completed a pilot project using arti? cial intel- ligence (AI) technology to predict the most fuel-ef? cient way to operate a vessel, the Stena Scandinavica on the

Gothenburg – Kiel route, a technology test which report- edly helped to reduced fuel consumption 2 to 3 percent.

As fuel represents nearly 20 percent of Stena Line’s op- erating costs, even a low single digit fuel savings percent- age yields big dividends, and the company plans to deploy the technology on additional vessels. The software is now named Stena Fuel Pilot and will be installed on ? ve more

Stena Line vessels during the autumn, with the ambition to do a complete ? eet wide roll-out on all 37 vessels in

Europe during 2020. Working side by side in this project,

Photo: Kongsberg Maritime/Golden Energy Offshore

Stena Lines Head of AI Lars Carlsson, and Senior Master

Jan Sjöström from Stena Scandinavica has been key play-

Golden Energy Offshore, Kongsberg collaborate to ers in the success of the project. reduce operational fuel consumption by 20%

RINA, VRMedia Team on Remote Ship Inspect Tech hile vessel owners mull a myr- berg since 2015.

RINA signed an agreement with VRMedia, an augmented iad of fuel and emission reduc- Using the Kongsberg Vessel Performance and virtual reality company, to boost the de-velopment of tion technologies, Norwegian System (VPS), which includes new vessel data remote inspection technologies to carry out ship inspec-

WOffshore Service Vessel (OSV) to cloud infrastructure Vessel Insight deployed tions using VRMedia’s Kiber sys-tem. Kiber is a wearable owner and operator Golden Energy Offshore re- this year, Golden Energy Offshore was able to hardware and software fully integrated system for re- ports a 20% operational fuel savings courtesy of parlay information and analytics to transform mote assistance, that allows the consultation and shar- its work on vessel performance monitoring with daily vessel operations.

ing of real time information between several participants

Kongsberg Maritime, a collaboration which In addition to data analytics and vessel op- through augmented reality tech. With the Kiber Helmet, includes the deployment of the containerized eration modi? cation, the team this year added a headset equipped with a video camera, a viewer, a set

SAVe Energy battery system earlier this year. the SAVe Energy battery system to both ves- of headphones and a microphone, the operator can re- “We have a high focus on how our environmen- sels, each sailing with batteries for more than ceive real time advice and instructions from one or more tal footprint can be reduced, and how our op- six months. “By utilizing a redundant battery remote sources, with additional documents and text dis- erations can be optimized to contribute to the solution connected to the main switchboard in played directly on the viewer.

United Nations sustainability goals,” said Per Dynamic Positioning operations, we are able

Ivar Fagervoll, CEO, Golden Energy Offshore. to reduce total engine running hours by 43%,” “By installing the battery system, shore-power said Joakim Kjølleberg, data scientist, Kongs- connection and monitoring performance, our berg. “The increased load and improved ef? - energy consumption and environmental impact ciency are very bene? cial, helping the vessels are signi? cantly reduced.” to achieve operational fuel savings of 20 per-

The test platforms producing the results was cent. This combined with shore connection at

Golden Energy Offshore’s UT 776 CD design port means that the vessels are on their way to

Platform Supply Vessels (PSV), NS Orla and achieving annual fuel savings of approximately

NS Frayja, which have been monitored and ana- 360 cu. m., equivalent to around 1000 tons of lyzed by Golden Energy Offshore and Kongs- CO2 and 3 tons of NOx.”

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