After a successful year long trial on the Gaslog LNG carrier Methane Julia Louise, Shell has signed a five-year contract for the installation of a Kongsberg hydrodynamic optimization program on 45 of its chartered-in LNG carriers.
Called JAWS (Just Add Water System), the Kongsberg program requires no additional instrumentation. It calculates the most advantageous operating conditions in real time based on algorithms developed from historic high-frequency vessel data.
The system continually...