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Friday, December 20, 2013
Posts and items for December 20 - Wordsmith
New Zealand Ship to Harness Wind Power - Maritime Executive
Posted - December 20, 2013 - Maritime Executive - Source: http://fathom-ctech.com/
Post to be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/New-Zealand-Ship-to-Harness-Wind-Power-2013-12-19/
A new passenger ship, that will likely be
equipped with marine kites to harness wind power, is in the works for
the New Zealand territory of Tokelau.
The ship will have capacity for 60
passengers and some cargo to meet the daily needs of the locals. Plans
are for the ship to be built by December 2014, followed by sea trials
and a delivery voyage ready to start service in the first quarter of
2015.
Jonathan Kinds, the administrator of
Tokelau, stated that the community have had a major say in the design of
the purpose built vessel which will travel to and from Samoa 365 days
of the year. With the only access to Tokelau by sea, and the old vessel, MV Tokelau reaching the end of its working life, the new wind powered ship couldn’t come sooner.
Kinds
commented “We are looking at the possibility of using marine kites,
that's being tested at the moment and it really depends on whether or
not it's feasible. But if feasible that is an exciting development,
they're made by North Sails in Auckland and they assist the efficiency
of the vessel by in effect dragging the vessel along.”
Post to be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/New-Zealand-Ship-to-Harness-Wind-Power-2013-12-19/
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Ex-BP Engineer Found Guilty in Deepwater Horizon Case - Maritime Executive
Posted - December 19, 2013 - Maritime Executive - By Kathy Finn (C) Reuters
Post can be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/ExBP-Engineer-Found-Guilty-in-Deepwater-Horizon-Case-2013-12-18/
An engineer charged with obstructing
justice in connection with the 2010 BP well blowout in the Gulf
of Mexico was found guilty of one count by a federal jury on Wednesday,
officials said.
Former BP Plc employee Kurt Mix, 52, had
faced two counts of obstruction for deleting hundreds of messages he
exchanged with his supervisor and a contractor in the weeks after the
spill, but was convicted of only one.
Mix was part of a team that scrambled to
plug the Macondo well and figure out how much oil was leaking in what
became the worst offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history.
During the two-week trial, government
lawyers painted Mix as a loyal member of the drilling team who tried to
shield BP from blame by deleting text and voice messages that may have
proven BP lied about how much oil was escaping into the Gulf.
Defense
attorneys, who do not deny Mix deleted messages, insisted he had no ill
intent and that the deletions were largely accidental.
Mix, of Katy, Texas, did not take the stand in his own defense. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.
Prosecutor Leo Tsao told the jurors that
Mix had been warned repeatedly not to delete any information from his
company iPhone and had notified him that he might be subpoenaed before a
grand jury investigating BP's response to the spill.
By ignoring those warnings Mix displayed "corrupt intent" Tsao said.
"He deleted the messages even though he had
been told ... that if he did so, he could be criminally prosecuted,"
Tsao told the jury.
Mix's lawyer, Michael McGovern, countered
that his client was an innocent man who "told the truth to U.S.
government scientists all throughout the response effort."
McGovern said it was unreasonable to
believe Mix "a drilling engineer with no law enforcement training
whatsoever was specifically thinking about the possibility of a grand
jury when he deleted messages from his iPhone."
Mix is one of four current or former BP
employees charged with crimes connected with the well incident. His is
the first case to be tried.
The Macondo well explosion on April 20,
2010, killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and
triggered an 87-day oil spill in which millions of gallons of crude
flowed into the Gulf.
Post can be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/ExBP-Engineer-Found-Guilty-in-Deepwater-Horizon-Case-2013-12-18/
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Post’s and Items – December 18
Post’s and Items – December 18
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking
to limit emissions from the shipping industry, given that it is
responsible for about 10 percent ...
Ocean zoning is a simple
concept. As on land, where there are industrial, commercial, residential,
agricultural, and conservation zones, you can't do ...
The latest results
from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) suggest that pollution
and overfishing are compromising the ...
Ocean Research Project
announced it will begin in Spring 2014 the first Trans-Pacific, continent to
continent NON-STOP Marine
Plastic Survey.
AMONG all of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) conventions, the Ballast Water
Management Convention 2004 (BWMC) is possibly the one ...
The Maritime and Port
Authority of Singapore has notified marine fuel ... change is mandated by a International Maritime Organization regulation
As defined by the International Maritime Organization,
the true vapor pressure or bubble point vapor pressure is the equilibrium vapor
pressure of a ...
U.S. Coast Guard
marine inspectors are investigating and monitoring the repair of two ... There are no reports of personal
injury or marine pollution.
Gazprom Considers Small Baltic LNG Plant for Cleaner Ship Fuel - Maritime Executive
Posted - December 17, 2013 - Maritime Executive - Reuters
Post to be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Gazprom-Considers-Small-Baltic-LNG-Plant-for-Cleaner-Ship-Fuel-2013-12-17/
Russia's Gazprom is looking at building a
small plant on the Baltic Sea to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a
shipping fuel, a company official said on Tuesday.
The European Union is backing tough new
rules on shipping fuel, which will be phased in across EU waters, as
part of efforts to cut pollution.
Ship owners are under pressure to cut the
sulfur content in shipping fuels to 0.1 percent from 1 percent by 2015
in "sulfur emission control areas" in the Baltic, North Sea and the
English Channel.
To comply with the new EU rules, ships
should use low-sulfur fuel which is much more expensive than the heavy
fuel oil currently used; install pollution control device of approximate
weight of 70 tons known as scrubber or switch to LNG, feasible for
newbuilds but not for most of the existing fleet.
Olga Lotsmanova, chief technologist at
Gazprom's department for gas fuels development, said the world's top gas
producer is looking at a new LNG plant with annual capacity of up to 1
million tons by 2020, on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
"Taking into account the tightening of
pollution level rules... gas is now starting to be more and more viewed
as a fuel for different types of transport," she told an industry
conference, calling the move strategic.
Gazprom supplies a quarter of Europe's gas
needs but both sides are trying to diversify away from each other due to
political and economic reasons.
Gazprom operates Russia's only LNG plant, on the Pacific Island of Sakhalin, producing around 10 million tons of LNG annually.
It plans to build at least two more large
LNG plants in Vladivostok on Russia's Far East and on the Baltic Sea,
part of a move to double its global LNG share to 10 percent by 2020.
Lotsmanova estimated that around 10 percent
of all ships in "control areas" will use LNG as a fuel - a tenfold
increase from current levels - by 2015.
"The market of LNG as a bunker fuel is at its initial stage of development," she told the conference.
According to the European Commission,
shipping companies will face extra costs of 2.6 billion euros to 11
billion euros ($3.6 billion-$15 billion) to switch fuels or to fit
exhaust filters that would scrub out the sulfur in marine fuel oil.
$1 = 0.7271 euros
Post to be found at:
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Gazprom-Considers-Small-Baltic-LNG-Plant-for-Cleaner-Ship-Fuel-2013-12-17/
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Post’s and Items – December 16 – 17
Post’s and Items – December 16 – 17
South Africa has
established a pollution prevention strategy to respond to environmental
threats and help vessels at risk, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said on ...
Mark J. Spalding,
president of The Ocean Foundation, and ocean ... and then develop
business related solutions to marine pollution and conservation.
NEW YORK, NY, Dec 16, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) --
JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) , today announces a unique partnership with The
Ocean Foundation focusing on the long-term health of the Caribbean's oceans and
beaches, a Commitment to ...
The 2013 update was
based on the results of the 2011 Puget Sound Maritime Air Emissions
Inventory, which found maritime-related air pollution has ...
The International
Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to limit emissions from the
shipping industry, given that it is responsible for about 10 percent ...
This is in accordance
with the requirements of the 2004 IMO Convention for ... and
shipboard trials conducted in accordance with IMO requirements.
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