SEA-LNG’s Bunker Navigator instrument exhibits that bio-LNG is obtainable immediately in nearly seventy ports worldwide, together with in Singapore, Rotterdam and on the U.S. East Coast. [Image: SEA-LNG]
The SEA-LNG coalition experiences that evaluation of the inexperienced LNG bunkering market exhibits that bio-LNG is obtainable immediately in nearly seventy ports worldwide, together with in Singapore, Rotterdam and on the U.S. East Coast. The knowledge is revealed within the coalition’s replace to its on-line Bunker Navigator instrument, which supplies data on the bunker availability of fuels within the LNG pathway worldwide.
Bio-LNG used within the maritime business is produced from sustainable biomass feedstocks corresponding to human or agricultural waste, which suggests it doesn’t compete with the manufacturing of meals, fiber or fodder, as outlined by rules such because the EU’s RED II and the U.S. EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standards.
According to SEA-LNG, annual manufacturing of biomethane, from which bio-LNG is produced, is at the moment round 30 million tonnes or round 10% of transport’s complete annual vitality demand.
The 355 LNG-fueled vessels, excluding LNG carriers, within the international world fleet are all able to utilizing bio-LNG as drop-in gasoline with none modification. Bio-LNG can be transported, saved and bunkered in ports utilizing the present LNG infrastructure, offering a path to additional enlargement of its availability in coming years.
“In general, the use of bio-LNG as a marine fuel can reduce GHG emissions by up to 80% compared to marine diesel on a full well-to-wake basis,” says SEA-LNG. “Depending on the tactic of manufacturing, bio-LNG can have net-zero and even net-negative GHG emissions on a lifecycle foundation, creating quick alternatives for vessel operators to chop GHG emissions and providing a sustainable path to decarbonization by 2050.
Commenting on the replace to the SEA-LNG Bunker Navigator, Adi Aggarwal, basic supervisor of SEA-LNG mentioned: “The fact that bio-LNG is commercially available now and being used as a drop-in marine fuel by operators in Europe, North America and Asia, demonstrates the sustained contribution that the LNG pathway can make to decarbonizing our industry, starting today. Climate change is a stock and flow problem, the longer our industry waits to start using low-carbon fuels, the tougher the decarbonization challenge will be.”
