FUELS & LUBRICANTS

LNG strong contender for SOx emissions in the Russian market

12 years ago

Nikolay A. Katagarov, a senior expert in the machinery department of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, discusses his favoured solution to SOx emissions with Wendy Laursen

Nikolay Katagarov: The domestic gas price in Russia is approximately three times less than the market price in Europe.

Nowadays three main ways to reduce emissions of sulphur oxides are considered: use of diesel fuel on vessels with low sulphur content, supplying ships with exhaust emissions cleaning systems (scrubbers), and installation of engines designed to use LNG as fuel.