LNG VESSEL DESIGNthem equivalent or better to what’s out there now. Sperling traditional players in the infrastructure and bunker side of insists, “Otherwise, people will question it and it is not go- the business is very real. ing to happen. So, the goal is to be better. If you currently Sperling explains, “This is a game between LNG users have a 40-ton bollard-pull tug, you aren’t going to replace and LNG providers. And you know that some people have it with a 35-ton bollard-pull LNG tug. That’s simply not stuck their nose out and at some point are going to have to going to be acceptable to industry. LNG units will have to make sure that there is infrastructure – whether that’s Har-have the same or better: in terms of horsepower, bollard vey Gulf, Tote, Crowley, Matson – whoever you pick out pull, response time – everything.” there. They need the oil companies to provide them with LNG and they also need someone to move the LNG from SITREP LNG: cutting steel? the pipeline to the vessel. So there’s a question between Sperling is bullish on LNG in 2014, saying ““I wouldn’t the owners and the oil companies of who is going to fund be surprised if there is a keel laid in 2014. The reason is – what. We’re very close to having to make decisions.”and let’s just take Crowley as an example, since they are a LNG itself has an enviable track record in terms of safety, client of Jensen – if there are LNG ships being built, when environmental performance and delivering in the workboat they are delivered, we better have something in the water arena. No wonder it has arrived on the scene in North Amer-that can serve them. In order to do that, we’re going to have ica. For Jensen’s Johan Sperling, it is an exciting time as new to cut steel or order LNG equipment pretty soon. That in- concepts are brought forward. The same holds true of the volves the bunkering for those two ships. For the tugs, that’s Coast Guard and the classi