Maritime Reporter, July 2014

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MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS FLNG Prelude Inside the World’s Floating Production & the Future of Class Making Headway in Cleaning Exhaust Gas Ship Registries Staying Ahead of the Curve With the Right Registry By Greg Trauthwein By Dennis Bryant By Alan Weigel & Richard Singleton By Greg Trauthwein By Peter Pospiech By Patricia Keefe By Patricia Keefe By Jim McCaul By Greg Trauthwein IN THIS EDITION Royal Dutch Shell THE COVER The Gas Revolution By Patricia Keefe Combat Corrosion The SeaPerch Challenge Turbulo Bluemon HQ FL Offi ce Associate Publisher/Editorial Director Vice President, Sales Web Editor Web Contributor Corporate Staff Mark O’Malley, Public Relations Esther Rothenberger, Accounting Gabby DelGatto, Offi ce Manager Information Technology Vladimir Bibik Emin Tule Christopher Lee International Sales Scandinavia Western Europe United Kingdom Korea MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS Business Publications Audit Photo: Royal Dutch Shell Photo: Jonrie Photo: HHI SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscription Information Download our App Edward Scott, COO of Excelerate Energy EDITORIAL Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Reporter & Engineering News, in the GO DIGITAL Get the Maritime Professional App for MARITIMEPROFESSIONAL.COM Lessons from the Sky BY GREG TRAUTHWEIN NEWS Electronic Cartography Components (Systems, Charts), Marine ECS), Aviation Electronic Navigation Systems, Marine Electronic Charts Aviation Organization) and the Federal ECDIS Tug Buckley McAllister JONRIE WINCHES OUTFITTED ON NEW RSD CNG Tug A WORLD FIRST The Eighth FORAN Users Meeting BAE Systems Maritime Submarines USMMA Gets its New Ships King’s Foxx and Acting Maritime Administrator DELIVERIES TECH NOTES Norsepower’s Rotor Sail Solution is Harnessing Wind Power FOR A SHIP’S AUXILIARY POWER BY ERIC HAUN According to Tuomas Riski, CEO and The Norsepower Rotor Sail Solution is SKF, SKS Group, Turku Repair Yard GOVERNMENT UPDATE Senior Executive Service, was the Staff Guard Oil Spill Removal Organization OSRO The Child of Necessity BY DENNIS BRYANT The Author tor to Maritime Reporter & Engineering LEGAL BEAT The Court’s View on Electronic Navigation Evidence Accident Investigation & Litigation ECDIS, AIS, GPS Electronic Navigation Coming of Age The Authors Richard Singleton is a Partner at Blank INSURANCE How Coinsurance Works Replacement Cost Value or your Actual Gaining Deeper Coinsurance Insights Piers & Docks Insurance Emissions Reducti on EYE ON DESIGN The Author PROPULSION YOU KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT BS in Engineering US Citizenship CLASSIFICATION By Greg Trauthwein, Editor CLASSIFICATION Chairman of the IACS Council of the US Coast Guard, John Hannon, is Maritime Organization els (Diesel or Natural Gas), the Finnish MARINE PROPULSION of Exhaust Gases in Shipping is the Color Line Super Speed The Color Line Decision: Seawater MARINE PROPULSION International Maritime Organization’s Environmental Protection Agency and By Patricia Keefe If You Build It They will Follow Integrated Gas, Shell International No Pain, No Gain Before Shell can hope to reap FLNG’s American VULKAN Corporation How It Works Prelude By the Numbers By Patricia Keefe t News Shipbuilding/Released) Current Inventory Production Floater Order Backlog Backlog of Planned Floater Projects FLOATING PRODUCTION BY JIM MCCAUL, IMA Floating Production Number of Floating Production and Storage Units In Service, On Order or Available for Reuse Oil/Gas Production LNG Production Storage Systems Near Term Outlook Breakdown of Planned Location of Field Breakdown of Planned Projects by Type of Production System Shipping Cooperation Committee, the RMI Registry SHIP REGISTRIES Reporter & Engineering News Worldwide Business Operations By Greg Trauthwein Christian Mollitor, Liberian Registry/LISCR, LLC Private Equity Drives New Ship Buys REGISTRIES TOTAL CONTAINERSHIP Business is Brisk at Posidonia in Athens Greek Shipowners Prefer Bulkers Newbuild Investment GTT, Oman Drydock Get the Deal Done SeaCURE Ballast Water Management System the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of PRODUCTS: TOOLS Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute American P&I Club Rings in Posidonia Stuart Todd Joe Hughes PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS USMMA Grads Harfjeld and Munthe Petters Honored by Navy League the Navy League of the United States Harfjeld, Munthe Named Co-CEOs Midshipman Yerkes-Medina Honored Howard Delivers Kings Point Address Brown Appointed COO at LR Director Tom Boardley, Brown will be RMM for Southern Europe, Middle East the Business Development & Innovation Alfultis New Head of SUNY Maritime the University of Connecticut’s Avery OW Bunker Acquires WMF new Group Vice President for the Asia Chin to Lead Wallem Ship Agency General Manger for the Hong Kong ship AJ Halavacs, Pleasure Craft Product ica at ZF Marine Propulsion Systems Miramar LLC, the North American arm Director, Industrial Technology, Head of Marine Propulsion Systems Region Gallaudet Relieves Brown Vatnehol Named CEO at Rapp President Offshore Deck Machinery in Wilson Joins American Club Fernstrum Owners Purchase WEKA IHC Merwede to Become Royal IHC op Grumman) HOUSTON OFFICE THE PO WERFUL OOL WIDE ANGE CE AR ATION MENT GTT Membrane LNG Bunker Barge Defense Minister David Johnston aims Scania’s Annual Service Competition Kappel Propellers for New Bulkers Caterpillar Win REMARSL Order Schottel & European River Cruising s Register) van Hemmen & Roelse s Register) PROPULSION UPDATES Unifi ed Emissions Monitoring Turbulo MONITORING TOTE Ship Receives Powerplant Thrustmaster, DOEN ink Deal Solent Towage Ltd Repowered Tug Tows Nonstop Smith Maritime, Laborde FPP Design PRODUCTS: TOOLS Metal Thickness Gauge Datalogger Metal MIG Gun Customization New A/C Chiller mo & Comfort North America Dynaligner Aims to Eliminate Shaft Misalignment MEGAFIL Welding Wires PRODUCTS: TOOLS New Water Jet Nozzle SCIGRIP Adhesives Engineroom Ventilation Aluminum Oxide Fiber Discs Aluminum MIG Push-Pull Welding Packages Floor Planer ENC Production Software Spoolmatic Pro from Miller Bernard’s ‘Best of the DDM Power Tools DECK CRAWLERS PRODUCT FEATURE: MONITORING TOOLS Cold Corrosion Test Kit SEAPERCH Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and for University’s Payne Center and Johnson Naval Engineering Education Center Mississippi Hosts Fourth Annual National SeaPerch Challenge SEAPERCH ing CMDR David Arnold, Director of Herbert Eppert from the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, who The Poster Presentations: In the Commander, Naval Meteorological and Gulf Coast Contenders Club Saucier, MS Charleston, SC Egg Harbor Township, NJ Team Time or Points Middle School Newburgh, IN High School Saucier, MS Bloomington North Barbarians Bloomington, IN Middle School Evansville, IN High School Saucier, MS Open Class Gloucester, VA Middle School Gambrills, MD High School Nelson NZ Open Class Manassas, VA Middle School Egg Harbor Township, NJ High School Saucier, MS Open Class Bloomington, IN BUYER’S DIRECTORY NAVAL ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS MARINE ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING TOOLING DESIGN BOKSA Marine Design ABS Approved Ambient Environmental Testing Noise & Vibration MR MR