Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter September 2017 Arctic PassionNews 2 / 2017 / 14 First arctic LNG carrier in successful ice trials Page 9 In this issue Page 2 From the Managing Director Page 3 Decades of developing Arctic LNG carriers Page7 Polaris in ice trials Page9 First icebreaking LNG carrier in ice trials Page 11 Baltika in arctic ice management duties Page 13 Brash ice channel project continues Page 14 Ice basics part 2 Page 16 French PLV delivered Page 17 Ice transit simulation model Page 18 12th Passion Seminar Page 19 News in brief Page 20 Rowing race Polaris in ice trials Baltika in arctic ice Meet us here Page 7 management duties Page 11 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter September 2017 Are we on the verge of the arctic opening up to regular shipping? We are all waiting for next winter, but can already conclude Both the NSR and NWP have been known for centuries, but that 2017 will remain remarkable for arctic shipping could it finally be the time for a significant increase and development. In the past summer, we have witnessed utilization of these routes? Many organizations, and nations, several cross sailings on the main arctic routes, in addition to have shown interest and carried out their own studies into new speed records. the matter. It seems that with new ship technology, improved One of the major arctic projects ever, the Yamal LNG, will arctic infrastructure and the change of ice conditions, this start with year around LNG shipments with a brand-new fleet can now be more feasible. Already the transportation for of huge and capable ships, which once again will rely on major industrial production is starting and will add a Double Acting vessel technology which we developed significant number of shipments in the Russian arctic. decades ago. The first in the series of 15, Christophe de This sort of activity shows the path forward, and many Margerie, sailed the entire Northern Sea Route and delivered other new projects may follow and open the routes to regular LNG cargo from Norway to Korea. The Finnish icebreaker traffic. We have been preparing for this possibility for a long Nordica also set the record as the earliest ship to sail through time already and have developed arctic ships for this the North-West Passage when it commissioned its Arctic purpose. The next few years will show how quickly 100- expedition, with a number of scientists onboard. On this shipments increase. route, already for the second year in a row, the Crystal In this issue of Arctic Passion News, you can read about Serenity will be undertaking a second commercial cruise developments in various ice classed voyage. The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker , 50 Let vessels, including Arctic and Antarctic. Popedy, also cruised to the North Pole. This voyage was I hope you enjoy the articles and look remarkable for its record time and speed with which she was with great interest towards next winter able to reach the pole. Although we know that technology, and the opening of new arctic trades. power and the size of ships have developed over the years, one reason for these records is the fact that ice conditions Reko-Antti Suojanen have become easier in arctic navigation. Managing Director Aker Arctic Technology Inc Announcements Sean Ireton has been Björn Schönberg Roumen Tzvetanov appointed Sales and joined Aker Arctic in joined Aker Arctic as Marketing Manager May 2017 as a Naval Head of Business for North America. He Architect to work in Development for Oil has previously ship design and and Gas. Roumen worked for Lloyd's engineering. In the graduated from the Register and the past, Björn was a Moscow Power Canadian Navy, and naval architect at the Engineering Institute more recently has Masa-Yards Helsinki with an M.Sc. in been freelancing shipyard and at Instrumentation and providing on-site management for new ship NAPA Ltd. Björn has a special focus on Automatic Control of Nuclear Power construction projects. ship theory and his main responsibilities at Plants. He holds a Ph.D. in Technical Aker Arctic are related to ship stability Sciences from the Institute of Control Joakim Konsin has calculations. Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences. joined Aker Arctic as Roumen has extensive international a Naval Architect, Petri Tolonen has experience in petroleum and power specialised in ship joined Aker Arctic as engineering and has worked in companies design. He started at Director of Sales and such as Chevron, Shell, Worley Parsons, the Turku office with Marketing. Wood Group, Maersk on large projects concept design. Previously Petri has including LNG Sakhalin II, Wheatstone and Since graduating in worked at Wärtsilä Browse. He has a multidisciplinary career 2003 with a M.Sc. in Marine Solutions as background and a solid portfolio of design Naval Architecture, he has worked for two the director of the studies, management and coordination in large marine equipment producers for 14 thruster and PCS oil and gas projects. years. product line. Before Wärtsilä, he worked at Steerprop Ltd. and Risto Kurimo retired Jukka Salminen has was President and CEO of the company. from Aker Arctic in joined Aker Arctic as Petri has more than 25 years of experience June 2017. He Sales Manager. in international business, mainly workedinthe Jukka graduated as concerning sales and marketing, industry for almost 40 a master mariner and has additionally worked in companies years (since 1978), from Turku Maritime such as Metso Paper (known nowadays as mainly as a College (Aboa Mare) Valmet) and UPM. hydrodynamic in 2006. He specialist and project previously worked for Front cover: manager, first at over 11 years with Christophe de Margerie, the world's first Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Valmet Helsinki the Finnish icebreaking company Arctia Shipyard, Aker Finnyards (earlier Masa- Ltd., first as a navigating officer onboard icebreaking LNG carrier, successfully Yards and Kværner Masa-Yards) before the conventional icebreakers Otso and completed ice trials in March 2017. Aker joining Aker Arctic Technology in 2006. In Kontio and then onboard the multipurpose Arctic developed the concept design for the 1990s he was also responsible for the hydrodynamic development of the novel icebreakers Nordica, Fennica and Botnica. the gas carrier and has been deeply During his last years at Arctia, he was the "Azipod" propulsion device in a joint chartering manager responsible for involved in the entire logistics project for venture project between ABB Industry and chartering Arctia's icebreakers globally. Yamal LNG. Kvaerner Masa-Yards Inc. We wish Risto a happy retirement! 2 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter September 2017 Decades of developing Arctic LNG carriers The use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been steadily growing. An artist's impression of an early Arctic LNG carrier design from the mid-1970s: LNG, which consists mainly of methane, provides cleaner energy Finnish shipbuilders' proposal for gas with less harmful emissions compared to oil fuel, andCourtesy with of the current U.S. Departmentturbine of State powered ships capable of environmental concerns the need for clean options continues to crossing the Northwest Passage. Aker Arctic's predecessors participated in grow. When vast gas resources in cold areas were found, it was many such LNG trade and ship studies essential to start developing systems to explore and transport related to the Canadian Arctic. these resources successfully, economically and safely to the market. Finnish engineers have been involved in developing transportation solutions for LNG for a long time. The oversea transportation of LNG requires dedicated ships both in terms of size, as LNG is a light-weight cargo, and in terms of how the gas is stored on- board the vessel in its cryogenic liquid form. In fact, LNG 'exists' and is produced only for storing and transporting natural gas feasibly in its densified form: One cubic metre of LNG becomes 600 cubic metres of natural gas when vaporized back to its gaseous form. Today there are almost 450 LNG carriers in service, the majority of which are large size ships. Some 110 such ships are currently on order. In the mid- 1960s, the first commercial LNG carriers An LNG carrier at Sakhalin gas terminal were developed and taken into use in and proposed by Finnish companies. In (Photo courtesy: Sovcomflot) Europe. In the early 1970s, LNG the beginning of the 1980s, some US deliveries expanded to Japan. The two companies issued plans even for Arctic projects for LNG shipments began: the main LNG carrier types used today are submarine LNG vessels. None of those Snöhvit project in Norway (2007) and the derived from those ships. These are the plans came true and the development for Russian Sakhalin II LNG project on the island so-called membrane- and Moss-type arctic LNG vessels was halted for of Sakhalin (2009). Both were the first large- ships, which have both later developed decades. scale national LNG projects in areas with sub-types and improved versions. During the 1980s and 1990s, LNG winter conditions. As a result, several ice shipping continued to grow steadily, but it class 1C Moss-type LNG carriers were built to LNG carriers for cold environments took place in warm waters and serve the projects. Early Arctic pilot projects in the mid-1970s concerned Middle East gas production. In the early 1970s, some of the first LNG aimed at transporting LNG from the Slowly, however, LNG production began carriers built in Norway also had the same ice Canadian Arctic to elsewhere in North to expand north towards colder regions. class 1C, as did the first two PSB-type ships America and to Europe. Relatively large A breakthrough for LNG transportation that were built in 1993 in Japan and sailed for and high ice class ships were designed in cold areas came when two production a long period on the Alaska-Japan route.