LNG Fundamentals – Technical, Commercial, Standards and Safety Considerations in the LNG Industry Value Chain

After the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Reinforce knowledge about operations that are carried out in accordance with all relevant national and international maritime legislation, local regulations, and industry best practices.
• Evaluate the different procedures and factors affecting cost of the operation.
• Ensure overall safety for LNG operation on the use of correct size and number of fenders and certified tested hoses.
• Become familiar with LNG vessels, operations and LNG equipment.
• Enhance understanding of Ship-to-Ship transfer equipment, design, maintenance – and training methods for STS.
• Familiarise the differences of Person in Overall Advisory Control, Mooring Master and Master of the Ship.
• Establish a useful methodology in reducing risk.
• Understand environmental challenges.
• Recognise and understand differences in operations and hazards between oil and gas vessels.
• Understand requirements for LNG vessel compatibility and Optimoor studies and follow an LNG spill response case study

This course is designed for anyone with the responsibility for seagoing transportation, loading, discharging, refueling and care in custody transfer or handling LNG cargoes especially Oil and Gas operators, vessel owners and operators, surveyors and marine superintendents.

Those involved include:

• Ship Owners and Managers
• Ship Superintendents and Safety Officers
• Ship Officers and Crews (Master, Chief Officers, Chief Engineers etc)
• Ship Brokers
• Offshore Vessel and FPSO Owners and Operators
• Bunkering industry personnel including Loading and Mooring Masters
• STS Service Providers
• Liquid Cargo and Bunker Surveyors
• Ports and Terminal Operators
• P&I Inspectors, Executives, Club and Marine Insurance Executives
• LNG FSU Owners, Managers, Operators
• Company Assurance Managers and Superintendents
• Asset Managers
• Project Engineers, Managers, Directors and Planners
• Cost Estimators
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Contract Managers
• Procurement Managers
• All Liquid / Gas and LNG suppliers, Traders and Distributors
• Superintendents and Safety Officers
• Technical and Operations Executives
• Charterers and Traders

• Intermediate

Your expert course leader is an Independent Marine Engineering Surveyor and Forensic Marine Engineer. For the past 27 years, he has been heavily engaged as an expert regarding LNG vessel and offshore platforms, STS – ports and harbour infrastructure, machinery failure investigation and safety, LNG propulsion and vessel component integrity and failure. He advises multinational participants in the Oil and LNG/STS, and the geotechnical LNG drilling sector in areas regarding offshore LNG and oil platform installations in Australia, USA and throughout South East Asia. He has been engaged on experimental and theoretical investigation of liquid hydrogen pool spreading and vaporization. Pool spreading and vaporization of liquid hydrogen. Simulation of Small-Scale Releases from Liquid Hydrogen Storage Systems by Oil and Gas majors internationally. His recent research has involved assessing cost-effective choices of marine fuels in a carbon-constrained world resulting from theoretical global energy models in Environmental science & technology.

He is an independent expert in the Marine Engineering field, dominating matters involving the Oil and LNG, Hydrogen and biofuel sectors. He lectures in the field of marine survey engineering, LNG auditing and safety throughout South East Asia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America (Gulf). This includes developing and providing expert training in LNG and Hydrogen vessel and offshore platform HSE/NEBOSH/SIMOP/LNG/IMO and ILO.

From a Marine Engineering and Surveying perspective, he has worked aboard a variety of LNG vessel classes including LNG Oil/Carriers, Multi-Purpose Self Loaders, Offshore Anchor Handling Vessels, Offshore Supply Vessels – Oil and LNG, Combo – Heavy lift Ships – Class LNG. Foremost, he has been instrumental in the early development of hydrogen and biofuel Marine industry developments in USA and Europe bunker refuelling sector.

He is an independent Navy and Government advisor, former fleet manager, Class Surveyor and technical superintendent in the LNG Sector. This includes the oversight of STS HSE in the North West Shelf (Chevron – Gorgon Project $54 Billion USD Offshore LNG). He has previously also been engaged as an qualified Court Litigation Expert, advisor and ‘in house’ independent consultant to various multinationals within Australia, Europe and South East Asia in LNG Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S). He also investigated catastrophic (fatal) engineering incident(s) that have occurred at sea, within these ports and ashore on behalf of numerous worldwide Government Agencies in USA and Australia.

Some of his industry specific experience and assignments are listed below including LNG/ STS training, research and technical diagnostic experience in the fields of LNG and Offshore Installations and marine engineering.

• LNG Carrier and Oil Exploration Ships and Offshore Support Vessel Class – Woodside Pty. Ltd North West Shelf (Australia)
• LNG – CHEVRON GORGON Independent Technical Expert – $54 Billion USD Liquid Natural Gas [LNG] – Project – [OMSA Offshore Marine Service Alliance] – Barrow Island (Western Australia) Marine Engineering and Safety Compliance – LNG/SIMOP/HSE/IMO/ILO
• Port Infrastructure and Safety. LNG – Chevron Gorgon STS Facility and Heavy Lift Loading Facility – Henderson, Western Australia. Stevedoring and Safety Compliance – SIMOP/LNG -HSE/IMO/ILO
• Marine Engineering Surveyor and LNG/STS technical Expert Shipping and transport logistics. LNG – Turbine and Gas Platform infrastructure installation and mobilization
• Technical Independent Expert: Royal New Zealand Navy WARSHIP – RNZS Combat Supply and Multi Role War Ship – HMNZS War Ship ‘Canterbury’.

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