November 19 - 21, 2024
| Miami
Site Visit and Workshops - Tuesday November 14
MORNING COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
8:00 am - 9:00 am
MORNING COFFEE & REGISTRATION
WORKSHOPS
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
WORKSHOP A: LOW-FLASHPOINT FUELS IN THE U.S. – A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE
David McCusker -
Marine Transportation Specialist, Office of Commercial Vessel Compliance,
U.S. Coast Guard
David Porco - Training Specialist, Coast Guard Headquarters, Traveling Inspection Staff, U.S. Coast Guard
Timothy E. Meyers - PE Technical Lead - LNG & Alternative Fuel Systems System Engineering Division, Office of Design & Engineering Standards, U.S. Coast Guard
Dr. Cynthia Woodlock - USCG Hazardous Materials Division (CG-ENG-5) Office of Design and Engineering Standards, US Coast Guard
LCDR Jake Lobb - Advanced Journeyman Marine Inspector, US Coast Guard
LCDR Jason Y. Ryu - Detachment Chief Liquefied Gas Carrier National Center of Expertise, US Coast Guard
David Porco - Training Specialist, Coast Guard Headquarters, Traveling Inspection Staff, U.S. Coast Guard
Timothy E. Meyers - PE Technical Lead - LNG & Alternative Fuel Systems System Engineering Division, Office of Design & Engineering Standards, U.S. Coast Guard
Dr. Cynthia Woodlock - USCG Hazardous Materials Division (CG-ENG-5) Office of Design and Engineering Standards, US Coast Guard
LCDR Jake Lobb - Advanced Journeyman Marine Inspector, US Coast Guard
LCDR Jason Y. Ryu - Detachment Chief Liquefied Gas Carrier National Center of Expertise, US Coast Guard
As industry seeks to meet the IMO’s Greenhouse Gas Strategy (GHG)
to reduce carbon emissions, future fuels such as Bio and Synthetic LNG, Methanol, Hydrogen and Ammonia are emerging as potential fuel alternatives throughout the U.S Marine Transportation System (MTS). This workshop will review existing policies from the U.S Coast Guard on LNG
and collaboration between various
U.S Coast Guard offices to ensure regulatory review from plan review to bunkering oversight from the field units. Additionally, this workshop will provide current state of the industry and U.S. Coast Guard’s involvement with future fuels to help safely facilitate industry’s energy transition in the U.S MTS to meet IMO’s goal to reduce emissions by 40% by 2030 and 70% by 2050.
David McCusker
Marine Transportation Specialist, Office of Commercial Vessel ComplianceU.S. Coast Guard
David Porco
Training Specialist, Coast Guard Headquarters, Traveling Inspection StaffU.S. Coast Guard
Timothy E. Meyers
PE Technical Lead - LNG & Alternative Fuel Systems System Engineering Division, Office of Design & Engineering StandardsU.S. Coast Guard
Dr. Cynthia Woodlock
USCG Hazardous Materials Division (CG-ENG-5) Office of Design and Engineering StandardsUS Coast Guard
LCDR Jason Y. Ryu
Detachment Chief Liquefied Gas Carrier National Center of ExpertiseUS Coast Guard
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
WORKSHOP B: LNG BUNKERING – SAFETY AND TRAINING
Joe Pitcher -
Commercial Director, Americas,
V. Group
Safety and training are critical elements of the process of bunkering and safety of our seafarers is always of utmost importance to any operation. In this workshop, we explore measures which can be taken to ensure safe handling of LNG and other alternative marine fuels and protocols which can be put in place to ensure seafarer safety is ensured throughout all elements of the bunkering process. The session will cover:
- Training of crews on dual fuel vessels and required activity to upskill
- Legislative requirements/ certification challenges against wider crewing issues
- Increasing pool of trained crew for LNG bunkering and ability to cross pollinate (across vessel types)
- Leisure crew training and experience
- Operational considerations for
- operators such as location of bun- kering and the effects on passage planning.
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
WORKSHOP C: BETTER THAN ZERO
Find out how today’s natural gas vehicles are surpassing other alterna- tive fuel options in terms of emissions reduction and climate impact. This session will detail the rise of RNG motor fuel and the introduction of new product offerings poised to reconfigure natural gas’s role in the commercial transportation marketplace and how these experiences can apply to the future of RNG in the maritime sector in the North American region.
WORKSHOPS
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
WORKSHOP D: THE POWER IS YOURS – HOW WOULD YOU CHANGE THE MARITIME SECTOR’S REGULATION AND INCENTIVES?
Blake Littauer -
Director, Business Development,
Puget LNG
In this workshop, with the discussions around the sector’s consideration for low carbon fuel standard programs, attendees explore what changes they would like to see in North American maritime regulation. Those involved
will work in groups to come up with new policies and incentives for the sector which must be realistic and then they will present their proposals with their justifications for such changes
in regulation to the wider group in order to stir a discussion around what more could be done from a policy and regulatory perspective to catalyse the sector’s decarbonization.
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
WORKSHOP E: NATURAL GAS 2.0: ADVANCED THER- MO CATALYTIC METHANE PYROLYSIS FOR ENHANCED CII RATINGS AND METHANE SLIP MITIGATION
ROTOBOOST is pioneering innovations to decarbonize natural gas, converting it into Hydrogen (H2) and valuable car- bon materials. This workshop will delve into the technical and commercial breakthroughs achieved in four case studies: LNG carriers, cargo and cruise vessels, and bunkering terminals. It will showcase substantial improvements in CII ratings and methane slip reduc- tions, and reveal new business oppor- tunities through carbon sales, ETS, and FuelEU, presenting a compelling solu- tion for entities aiming for sustainable and economically beneficial options.
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
WORKSHOP F: 2040 VISION: ANALYSIS OF THE ALTERNATIVES AND THEIR ROUTE TO REGULATORY VIABILITY
This workshop will cover an analysis of the current North American and Global regulations for the use of LNG and LNG Bunkering and explore:
• What are the key limiting factors?
• What can lawmakers and regulators
learn from LNG’s regulatory journey to ensure the smooth transition of operators, suppliers, technology-pro- viders, financiers and more to other future fuel candidates?
• What agency do we have as stake- holders within the industry? What avenues do we have to influence regulation?
• What means do we have for greater co-operation and collaborative input?
