Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2024
LNG retrofits essential as world energy woes deepen The latest United
LNG retrofits essential as world energy woes deepen The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai certainly made history at the end of 2023 but whether it identified sufficient common ground to align the opposing powerful factions that produce, control, and consume the world’s energy resources remains to be seen. Opinions are deeply divided but many energy analysts insist that an entire phasing out of fossil fuels is not achievable in the foreseeable future. Hydrocarbons are essential for the production and manufacture of cement, coatings, cosmetics, fertilisers, medicines, petrochemicals, roads, runways, solar panels, wind turbine blades and, of course, transport – to name but a few....