CORE Seminar “Fuel of the future : LNG as a fuel in the maritime sector”
The Centre for Offshore Research & Engineering (CORE) and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) will be organising a seminar on the following:
Date: 30 Mar 2016, Wednesday
Time: 4.30pm – 6.00pm
Venue: Seminar Room EA #06-07, Faculty of Engineering, NUS
Title of presentation: Fuel of the future : Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a fuel in the maritime sector – An Overview
Speaker: Boulland Julien, Senior naval architect and LNG services specialist within Bureau Veritas, Marine & Offshore South Asia Centre
Refreshment will be served at 4.15pm.
*Pre-registration is not required. All are welcome and admission is free*
Abstract
This talk will look at the future of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a fuel in the maritime sector and the plans for Singapore to develop in this new business. LNG constitutes approximately 10% of the world production of gas; the LNG is natural gas reduced in volume (600 times compared to gaseous form) for the prime reason of bulk transportation on a worldwide scale, from the producing and exporting countries to the end user importing countries. LNG trade started in the 60’s and was primarily used for power generation purposes. Nowadays, we see more and more of this LNG being used for other applications, in particular as a fuel for road trucks, where LNG is used as a fuel as normal gasoline is. We also see maritime users (marine vessels) starting to use this fuel for their own usage: the current world fleet of LNG-fuelled vessels includes approximately 70 vessels to date.
LNG presents several environmental benefits that are driving its implementation: it emits less CO2 than conventional ship fuel (20% less), it emits no particulate matters and no Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and also reduces drastically Nitrogen Oxide emissions (NOx). Another advantage, less obvious, is that it could be cheaper than normal fuels. this talk will look at the economics of LNG trade on a worldwide scale (producing countries, importing countries, and LNG transportation), the physical properties of LNG, the drivers and hurdles behind the implementation of LNG for marine users, the current LNG bunkering infrastructure projects, and the positioning of Singapore as a LNG hub for maritime users.
For more details and information, please contact Ms. Ivy Poh at ceepab@nus.edu.sg or +65 6516 6853.
Additional Details
Contact Person - Ms. Ivy Poh
Contact Number - +65 6516 6853
Organizer - CORE, NUS