Eco-regulation prompts more LNG fuel use in northern European ports
NORTHERN European ports are planning installation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) stations to begin a switch from bunker for ships by 2020 as coming regulations demand radical reductions in ship pollution.
It is forecast to take at least two years before the take-up of LNG-powered engines begins from deep sea shipping companies once financing is available, said French group Gaztransport & Technigaz director Arthur Barret.
A shift to cleaner transport is increasingly demanded by maritime environmental regulations.
"By then, hopefully, there will also be more infrastructure to load LNG as a ship fuel," said Mr Barret, its director of LNG, which is likely to grow once the European Commission pushes regulation for all major ports in the EU to provide LNG refuelling.
The EU draft law proposes to reduce SOX and NOX emissions in marine fuels by 2050 by at least 40 per cent from 2005 levels.
Sweden's Gothenburg port will invest $155.3 million in an LNG terminal through Dutch oil and gas storage company Vopak and infrastructure firm Swedegas with bunkering to launch by 2015. Norway has created a state-driven national LNG marine transport fuel storage network.
Big status hubs, Rotterdam and Singapore are in the process of announcing plans in facilities. Antwerp is to chair an international working group to include leading ports of Amsterdam, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, LA and Long Beach and Rotterdam on safe procedures for bunkering operations of LNG
Global emissions standards has created a need to move away from heavy fuel oil and turn to cleaner fuel particularly in populated coastal areas, said Clarkson Capital Markets managing director Urs Dur.
Royal Dutch Shell view LNG as a future transport fuel and are to begin development of two-scale gas liquefaction units in Louisiana and Ontario to be operational by 2016.
Natural gas will become the world's most used energy source by 2030 particularly led by its use in the transport sector, taking over oil's dominance over the last 70 years, said Shell in a recent report.
But road transport market will take another decade to come on board with electric cars vying for a market, said the report, adding but its use for heavy-goods transport is attractive proposition with research underway in China and the US.
NORTHERN European ports are planning installation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) stations to begin a switch from bunker for ships by 2020 as coming regulations demand radical reductions in ship pollution.
It is forecast to take at least two years before the take-up of LNG-powered engines begins from deep sea shipping companies once financing is available, said French group Gaztransport & Technigaz director Arthur Barret.
A shift to cleaner transport is increasingly demanded by maritime environmental regulations.
"By then, hopefully, there will also be more infrastructure to load LNG as a ship fuel," said Mr Barret, its director of LNG, which is likely to grow once the European Commission pushes regulation for all major ports in the EU to provide LNG refuelling.
The EU draft law proposes to reduce SOX and NOX emissions in marine fuels by 2050 by at least 40 per cent from 2005 levels.
Sweden's Gothenburg port will invest $155.3 million in an LNG terminal through Dutch oil and gas storage company Vopak and infrastructure firm Swedegas with bunkering to launch by 2015. Norway has created a state-driven national LNG marine transport fuel storage network.
Big status hubs, Rotterdam and Singapore are in the process of announcing plans in facilities. Antwerp is to chair an international working group to include leading ports of Amsterdam, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, LA and Long Beach and Rotterdam on safe procedures for bunkering operations of LNG
Global emissions standards has created a need to move away from heavy fuel oil and turn to cleaner fuel particularly in populated coastal areas, said Clarkson Capital Markets managing director Urs Dur.
Royal Dutch Shell view LNG as a future transport fuel and are to begin development of two-scale gas liquefaction units in Louisiana and Ontario to be operational by 2016.
Natural gas will become the world's most used energy source by 2030 particularly led by its use in the transport sector, taking over oil's dominance over the last 70 years, said Shell in a recent report.
But road transport market will take another decade to come on board with electric cars vying for a market, said the report, adding but its use for heavy-goods transport is attractive proposition with research underway in China and the US.