{"id":163,"date":"2018-11-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2018\/11\/14\/stx-given-aip-for-new-lng-fuelled-mr-tanker\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:47:45","slug":"stx-given-aip-for-new-lng-fuelled-mr-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/lng\/stx-given-aip-for-new-lng-fuelled-mr-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"STX given AIP for new LNG-fuelled MR tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STX incorporated an LNG-fuelled propulsion system into its conventional MR tanker design. LR provided technical assistance to ensure that the design complies with both new regulations under the International Code of Safety for <em><strong>Ships<\/strong><\/em> using Gases or other Low-flashpoint Fuels code and LR\u2019s own Gas Fuelled Rules. LR also supported STX in carrying out a risk assessment of the propulsion system.<\/p>\n<p>Mr EK Choi, chief technical officer of STX, said: \u201cSTX has an extensive reference list for designing and building MR tankers. The design enables the lowest possible fuel consumption and allow owners to select a design that will meet the future SOx and NOx emission challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the approval in principle, LR\u2019s North Asia technical support office manager, Young-Doo Kim, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been an exciting project where we are delighted to have been able to support STX in incorporating LNG as a fuel option.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean shipbuilder, STX, has been given approval in principle from Lloyd\u2019s Register (LR) for a new 50k dwt MR tanker design capable of using LNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lng"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}