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CONFERENCE DIGITALIZATION nsights from leading Offshore Supply Vessel owners of the seminar, which coincided with the International and operators capture the extent to which technol- Workboat Show 2023 in New Orleans and went on to ex- ogy and data sharing are driving greater effciency, plore the gains operators are already realising.

I sustainability and proftability in operations while Detillier explained that while OSVs spend most of their enhancing working conditions for onboard personnel. time in dynamic positioning mode, running multiple engines

Harvey Gulf recently offered evidence of the gains it at low loads, digitalised emissions-monitoring had helped secured after introducing a digital platform to measure Harvey Gulf to identify opportunities to use supplementary emissions from an offshore support vessel (OSV) capable battery power to run engines singly at energy effcient 80% of running on LNG, diesel, and a combination of LNG, loads. This, Detillier said, could decrease fuel consumption diesel, and batteries. by around 30% and signifcantly reduce emissions as a result.

“We get tons of data – the question is how to use it,” Fellow seminar panellist SEACOR Marine is also pursu-

Dain Detillier, Executive Vice President – LNG Opera- ing a data-driven decarbonisation strategy. Using a smart feet tions, Harvey Gulf International Marine told a recent management solution, the company transfers data to shore in

Inmarsat Maritime ‘Connected Future’ seminar staged in real time to facilitate analysis and gain meaningful insights. collaboration with Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Kyle Pemberton, Manager of Engineering, SEACOR, said and moderated by Editor, Greg Trauthwein. that this has provided the basis for internal discussions about “You have to pinpoint your ultimate goal; what you fuel effciency that can “help crew to make better decisions”.

want to achieve. That’s something we try to do – narrow Pemberton also paraphrased ABS CEO Christopher J. our focus so we’re concentrating on smaller goals, and then Wiernicki to observe that, “Operational effciency is your we can expand from there,” said Detillier. best fuel right now” – a mantra that shapes SEACOR’s ap-

The preliminary remarks caught the mood of panellists proach to decarbonization. “Digitalization is high on our list 16 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM