Year: 2016 Language: english Author: Alexandros A. Gioldasis Genre: Research papers Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 141 Description: Climate changes and polar ice melting posed the researches of oil and gas exploration, development and production to Arctic Regions. In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the 13% and 30% of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and natural gas respectively, exist in the Arctic region. Meanwhile, a viable marine route emerged and in November 2012, Liquified Natural Gas Carrier (LNGC) ‘Ob River’ voyaged from Norway to Japan through the Arctic Seas, establishing a new path for LNG transportations. These Arctic passages, known as Northern Sea Route (NSR) diminish the transit from Europe to Asia for approximately 13 days, concluding to fuel savings, CO2 emission reductions and secure voyages, in contrast to the possibility of a pirate attack while transiting the high risk area of the Indian Ocean. Due to this increase in oil and gas activities in Polar areas and climate changes, the demand for ice capable vessels has increased. This demand has reached a peak of importance for the proper designing of these ships. Unified rules concerning the structure of ice capable ships have been publiced in accordance with classification societies and maritime authorities. However, these rules are based on semi-empirical methods and as the researches are in an initial stage, more progress for an adequate, safe and efficient design of ships navigating in ice needs to be done.
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Strength Assessment Of Ice Strengthened Ships
Language: english
Author: Alexandros A. Gioldasis
Genre: Research papers
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 141
Description: Climate changes and polar ice melting posed the researches of oil and gas exploration, development and production to Arctic Regions. In 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the 13% and 30% of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and natural gas respectively, exist in the Arctic region. Meanwhile, a viable marine route emerged and in November 2012, Liquified Natural Gas Carrier (LNGC) ‘Ob River’ voyaged from Norway to Japan through the Arctic Seas, establishing a new path for LNG transportations. These Arctic passages, known as Northern Sea Route (NSR) diminish the transit from Europe to Asia for approximately 13 days, concluding to fuel savings, CO2 emission reductions and secure voyages, in contrast to the possibility of a pirate attack while transiting the high risk area of the Indian Ocean.
Due to this increase in oil and gas activities in Polar areas and climate changes, the demand for ice capable vessels has increased. This demand has reached a peak of importance for the proper designing of these ships. Unified rules concerning the structure of ice capable ships have been publiced in accordance with classification societies and maritime authorities. However, these rules are based on semi-empirical methods and as the researches are in an initial stage, more progress for an adequate, safe and efficient design of ships navigating in ice needs to be done.
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