LNG infrastructure project 

The LNG infrastructure project

The aim of the project is to set up recommendations on the establishment of a marine LNG infrastructure encompassing a “hard one” on filling stations and a “soft one” on regulation and industry standards, etc.

The recommendations must be relevant for central stakeholders as shipowners, ports, LNG providers, industry organizations, countries, EU and IMO, etc.

The geographical scope is the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English Channel.
 
These sea areas will be covered by new regulations on the sulphur content in shipping fuel from 1 January 2015. Consequently, the competitiveness of Short Sea Shipping is going to be pressurized because of more expensive fuel and new competitive fuels will be needed.

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is an environmentally and climate change friendly fuel but demands a facilitating infrastructure encompassing filling stations, regulations, industry standards, etc. to become a commercially viable fuel.

The work puts emphasis on an LNG supply chain point of view, from the reception of LNG and/or liquefaction of natural gas from the natural gas grid, via storage and distribution to the use in ships for propulsion.