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64 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • DECEMBER 2014 steaming, a drive for fuel effi ciencies and low cost operations. The changes in the legislation only compounds the complexities and challenges for Shell as we try and build collaboration with the industry players from the legislators, OEMs to ship owners/operators. • Truijens, Chevron Marine Lubri- cants The new ECA regulations make the choice for fuel and lubes more criti- cal than ever. As a dedicated supplier to the global shipping industry Chevron Marine Lubricants has invested heavily in the development of appropriate new technology for our lubes. We realized early on that simply reformulating our existing products would not be suffi cient – we needed to start again from scratch. We had the enormous benefi t of access to a tanker fl eet operating in the already tightly regulated Californian waters so have been able to gain extensive proof of performance for our new products in real world sea conditions. Those products are now available globally. • Marucci, Castrol In terms of compli- ance with the 2015 ECA requirements specifi cally, the main challenge is that marine gas oil (MGO) has not been widely used so far. 2015 will be a big learning curve for everyone in the indus- try. Within this, lubricant manufacturers will need to work closely with OEMs and operators to gain a deeper understanding on how lubricants are performing with distillates once use becomes more wide- spread. Castrol has been looking at dif- MARINE FUELS & ECA ROUNDTABLE ” “ Stefan Claußen LUKOIL Running long term on the wrong lubricant, e.g. high BN cyl- inder oil while burning low sulfur fuel or distillate fuel, can increase the level of deposits. The lube oil/unused additives are contributing to the deposits and higher levels of deposits can lead to higher wear rates on ring and/or liner and ring breakages. MR #12 (58-65).indd 64 12/2/2014 2:41:54 PM
