Course description
Small Scale LNG Shipping (Public & Virtual)
This 3-day masterclass will review all Small LNG carriers: restrictions, market and fleet availability, Small Floating Units market: restrictions, market and fleet availability and integration of small-scale LNG and normal scale LNG: opportunities, markets and challenges.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend
- This comprehensive course will benefit all those involved in oil, gas and LNG production, processes, operations and transportation, including but not limited to:
- Shipping: LNG shipping services (Ship Owners), Shipyards expanding into this services, Buyers of LNG Shipping (Charterers, Traders), Ship Brokers, venturing into the LNG bunkering business (Charterers or Buyers or even Ship Owners from other segments) and engineering companies expanding into small scale LNG.
- LNG Producer: Understand the changes in the market, the players, the economics for the Ship Owners and themselves, how the contracts are structured and what is important and different in this type of business.
- Ports & Terminal: Understand how the ships performance, what they can do and can't do. Also, how their connections to the shore are, new technologies in hoses and automatic platforms and so on. The existence of onshore units that can expand or even completely substitute an onshore terminal in some cases.
- Power producer: Learn what units are available in the market, what experiences others have, what can be built and where, at what prices and how the existing fleet of small LNG carriers will be able (or not) to supply LNG to those terminals and floating units. The limitations, restrictions, capabilities and costs.
This course is also available in Spanish language.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
- Better understanding of opportunities in the small-scale LNG market.
- Overview of the different ships and terminals around the world and their similitude and differences.
- Understanding the differences between small and normal size LNG carriers: economics, technologies and players.
- Analysis of the small Floating Units market: FSRUs, FSRPUs, FSUs and hybrid terminals.
- Overall vision of the market, the fleets, the players and the routes.
- Comprehension of the LNG bunkering market, the ships available and their capabilities.
- How to see the problems: legal challenges, cabotage rules, technological problems and others.
- Whole supply chain analysis: understanding the effects of storage shortages, ships speeds, technologies used, draught
restrictions and so on. - Involved in contract negotiation exercise where we will practice some of the basics of contract negotiation based on a practical case.
Course delivery details
If you are based in Latin America and prefer the course to be delivered in your mother tongue, this course can be delivered in Spanish along with all our Renewable Energy courses.
All London Petro Academy courses are available face to face classroom style as well as virtually.
They are also available In-House and can be tailored to your company's specific requirements.
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