Ship&Offshore | Issue GreenTech/2017
Shifts in environmental regulations are driving digitalisation
Sulphur cap The IMO has set a global limit for sulphur in fuel oil used on board ships of 0.5% m/m (mass by mass) from January 1st 2020. Owners will have diverse options to meet the new standard. To help them with the increased complexity of operation, US-headquartered OSIsoft LLC, a global leader in operational intelligence, offers the PI SystemTM which delivers a single enterprise-wide data infrastructure that integrates, contextualises and visualises complex information in real time, writes the company’s transportation industry principal Matthew Miller.
The current global limit for sulphur content of ships’ fuel oil is 3.5% m/m (mass by mass). Although a 3% reduction may not seem that much, the maritime industry is bracing for what amounts to a massive change in fuel management strategy. The impacts of this change will be felt deeply and will ripple into oil and gas, water/waste water as well as many other global supply chains.