Lloyd’s Register wins MPA Singapore contract
Lloyd’s Register has won contract with MPA Singapore to develop operational procedures and technical standards in order to develop LNG bunkering capabilities in the Port of Singapore.
Lloyd’s Register will identify technical specifications, LNG bunkering procedures, and development of crew competency for LNG bunkering in the Port of Singapore, to support Singapore to develop the capability and infrastructure required in order to start supplying ships with LNG as fuel. LR will ensure MPA Singapore that the technical specifications of hardware are identified; the right operational procedures are established; port safety and emergency planning is provided for; and personnel competence can be developed effectively and put in place.
Much of Lloyd’s Register’s experience is from decades of LNG carrier classification leadership and understanding ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG. STS has been a principal area of development for large scale transfer of gas and is important experience. Most recently, risk leadership undertaken for bunkering operations at the port of Stockholm to support the high-volume bunkering required for the Viking Grace passenger ship project, now successfully in operation carrying 2,800 passengers between Stockholm and Turku, has further added to Lloyd’s Register’s experience and track record.
Some of Lloyd’s Register’s marine LNG firsts:
- Project addressing bunkering in Stockholm covered the port specific, practical details of safe LNG bunkering operations including: connection and start-up; normal disconnection, drain and purge; emergency disconnection, relief, purge; and operability issues (utilities, turn-around time, availability etc.) making safe LNG bunkering possible while passengers embark and disembark the ship.
- First classification society to conduct risk assessment and develop operational manuals for STS LNG transfers of major LNG carrier owners in use today in lightering and FSRU operations.
- First classification society to develop and issue rules for use of LNG as fuel for marine main propulsion systems (as applied on the LNG fuelled Viking Grace now in operation in the Baltic).
- First classification society to execute full risk analysis of combined operations involving STS LNG transfer with regasification and high pressure (HP) gas export in an offshore environment.