GE`s Lorraine Bolsinger This Morning

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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Money and Fuel
Clean Marine Energy and WesPac
Midstream offer fuel and finance
packages.
Cat Sells Its 700th DGB Kit
Dynamic gas blending for a 3512C
engine for an electric drive drilling
module.
Intervale Backs Thigpen
Support will allow for both fleet
and geographic expansion.
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‘All About Drilling’
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The Host with the Most? ‘It’s all about drilling,’
says Aaron Trexler, line manager for oil field power
generation with GE Energy, host of yesterday evening’s
reception to open the HHP Summit 2014 exhibition floor.
He’s here to talk natural gas, including field gas,
with energy E&P operators. Trexler is pictured with a
Waukesha MobileFlex VHP7104 engine at Booth 646.
At last year’s HHP Summit GE announced U.S. EPA
approval of the powerful unit. The VHP7104 comes to
New Orleans with 54 engines powering 17 drill rigs.
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Highlights from the HHP Summit 2014 Floor
IMO notes that the Bit Viking was the world’s first vessel to have
its main machinery converted to burn LNG as fuel. The 581-foot
ship, owned by Sweden’s Tarbit, was built in China in 2007 and
was fitted with dual-fuel engines and LNG fuel system in 2011.
IMO Floats Draft Standards
An International Maritime Organization panel
has released the draft of a safety code for LNG
as a marine fuel.
The developing standards, which would become mandatory under SOLAS, IMO’s international convention for the Safety of Life at Sea,
is known formally as the International Code of
Safety for Ships using Gases, or IGF Code.
IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee will
receive the draft at a key meeting in London
November 17-21. Binding rules could be finalized this coming spring.
Timothy Meyers of the U.S. Coast Guard’s
Office of Design and Engineering Standards is
slated to speak at this morning’s Navigating
the Regulatory Environment plenary session.
• Caterpillar is showing a 3512C engine/generator with DGB/dynamic gas blending dual fuel
kit – Booth 528;
• Chart is showing a new 3,000-liter (790-gallon)
Perma-Cyl forklift-movable LNG tank – 718;
• Cummins is showing a QSK50 engine with
dual fuel technology – 820;
• Dragon Products/Applied Cryo Technologies
is showing an ISO tanker trailer – 912;
• Thigpen Energy is showing a 15,000 gallon
LNG fueling trailer – 320
• Trinity Cryogenics is showing an LNG tanker
trailer in cooperation with WesMor Cryogenics,
Alloy Custom Products and Blu – 946; and
• Worthington is showing an ISO container
made by Worthington-Aritas in Turkey – 928.
GE’s Lorraine Bolsinger This Morning
GE Distributed Power president and
CEO Lorraine Bolsinger will deliver
the keynote address at this morning’s HHP Summit 2014 Plenary
Session at 11:15.
GE’s distributed power portfolio
includes aeroderivative gas turbines
and reciprocating engines generating
from 100 kilowatts to 100 megawatts.
Since joining GE in 1981, Bolsinger has held progressively larger
roles in product management, sales
and marketing across GE, serving
such diverse industries and technologies as power generation, oil
and gas, marine, and aviation for
both military and civil markets.
In 2005 she launched GE’s
“Ecomagination” growth and environmental initiative, growing revenues to $17 billion and reducing
greenhouse gases by 13%. Bolsinger has a bachelor’s degree in
biomedical engineering from the
University of Pennsylvania. GE is
at Booth 646.
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Pivotal LNG
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Cat-Powered
Cold-Ironing
in Hamburg
Germany’s Becker Marine Systems
is celebrating the arrival in Hamburg
of the world’s first LNG-fueled barge
designed to provide electrical power
to dockside vessels – in this case the
“cold-ironing” of Aida cruise ships as
passengers embark and disembark.
The 252-foot Becker Hybrid Barge
was built by SAM – Slovakia’s Shipbuilding and Machinery. It began its
journey of more than 900 miles via
On the Beautiful Blue Danube: Becker’s
Hybrid Barge in a river lock in Austria on
Europe’s Danube, Main and Rhine
its way from the Slovak Republic
rivers last month.
to Hamburg.
The vessel’s five generators, yielding 7.5 megawatts of power, are driven
by 100% natural gas-fueled lean-burn G3516C engines from Caterpillar
(Booth 528).
The barge has LNG tanks from Chart Industries (Booth 718). “LNG
will be supplied in modular form using ISO containers swapped on a fullfor-empty basis to eliminate the need for a dedicated bunkering station,”
Chart said last year.
Becker LNG director Max Kommorowski and Chart emerging markets
GM Paul Sjogren are speaking at the Powering Industry Beyond the Pipeline
session in Room 272 at 3:00pm today.
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WesPac Midstream LNG processing facility and berthing model
Clean Marine and WesPac
for LNG Fuel and Finance
WesPac Midstream and the new Clean Marine Energy (Booth 832)
have a new strategic partnership to bring LNG fuel to the marine
sector. They promise not only to supply LNG, but to finance the LNG
engines and related accouterments for the ships.
It’s an integrated solution representing “a significant step in the
evolution of LNG as a marine fuel,” the companies say. “The partnership is able to provide both the funding required for LNG conversion as well as the infrastructure for LNG supply and delivery.
“Conversion to LNG while financing the up-front investment provides the economic benefit of LNG fueling to ship owners without
capital deployment.”
WesPac Midstream, with Pivotal LNG (Booth 730), is to supply
fuel in Jacksonville for the two new dual fuel container ships being
built for the Caribbean by Tote. WesPac is also proposing a $600
million complex for LNG in Alaska.
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The presumption of liquefied natural gas for locomotives is being questioned as at least two projects will see the use of compressed natural gas
– albeit for short-haul and switcher applications.
The Chicago area’s Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is planning to convert 31 locomotives to CNG
as part of a federally backed initiative that will also
include a major CNG fueling installation.
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The Oklahoma DoT is backing
conversion of a Farmrail System
locomotive to CNG.
Washington State’s Energy Conversions, Inc. has shipped CNG
conversion hardware for a switcher
locomotive to Norfolk Southern.
Mike Nicoletti of IHB and
Farmrail consultant Leslie Olson
will discuss the respective projects at 3:00pm
today in Room 279.
Also slated to speak are Norfolk Southern locomotive engineering manager Allen Rider and CSX
chief mechanical officer John Rimer.
Westport LNG tender program director Brian
Dracup will moderate today’s session. Westport is
at Booth 430.
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Rolls-Royce Believes in Dedicated
Rolls-Royce Marine is promoting its
dedicated-natural gas Bergen engines at Booth 520. The company’s
answer for operators wanting duel
fuel capability? Maximize efficiency
and reliability by installing different
engines for different fuels.
Recent wins for Roll-Royce include
the provision of dedicated engines
– one natural gas with a diesel for
backup – for two new ferries being
built by Norway’s Fiskerstrand Verft
for Boreal Transport Nord.
Also under a new contract, RollsRoyce is providing a single, dedicatedLNG C26:33L6AG engine for the Abel
Matutes ferry operated by Spain’s
Baleària.
The retrofit installation will allow
the crew to shut down their diesel
engines in and approaching port.
Roll-Royce sales manager Odd
Magne Horgen will moderate the
Marine Bunkering: Fueling Solutions
session at 3:00pm in Room 267 this
afternoon.
The world’s first LNG tugboats, built in Turkey for Norway’s Buksér og Berging, were
delivered this year. They have twin in-line, lean-burn, spark-ignition 6-cylinder
Bergen C26:33 engines. Rolls-Royce also has an order from the Chinese state oil
company CNOOC, to power Asia’s first natural gas-powered tugs.
APG Launches the S4000
APG’s Lyle Jensen.
The American Power Group is promoting its S4000
series stationary dual fuel system at Booth 838. The
latest APG system “has been designed to maximize
oil and gas field performance utilizing a wider range
of pipeline and conditioned well-head gas quality.”
S4000 hardware upgrades include new engine antiknock protection, upgraded displays, and durability
improvements. Software upgrades include telematics
remote monitoring and auto-CanBus synchronization.
“The S4000 will open up new regional markets
like the Williston/Bakken basin,” said APG CEO Lyle
Jensen. There are “approximately 200 rigs operating
over 1,000 eligible diesel engines,” he said.
Separately, APG recently reported an order for 15 of
its dual fuel kits valued at approximately $500,000 from
Oklahoma dealer SourceOne. “With this order, SourceOne will have taken delivery of 51 APG conversion
systems during the second half of fiscal 2014 which
represents an 82% increase,” the company said.
APG CEO Lyle Jensen will speak at the Pressure
Pumping Engine Optimization session at 3:00pm in
Room 261 today.
Caterpillar Sells 700th DGB Kit for E&P
Caterpillar Oil & Gas is has sold its 700th dual
fuel dynamic gas blending kit for 3500 series
engines for drilling and fracking. The 700th
DGB kit will be installed on a Cat 3512C land
electric drive drilling module.
The DGB line was launched in 2012 and
has found application in in global oilfields
ranging from the U.S. to China, Cat says.
“Higher gas substitution, fully-automated
gas controls and the service delivered by the
Cat dealer network” are among the “differentiating factors in the Caterpillar solution,” said land
drilling segment manager Darin Bohlmann.
“We are continuing to engineer the DGB
solution to meet evolving industry needs,” he
said, citing Cat’s new Product Link: “an enterprise equipment management solution that
wirelessly connects customers to Cat equipment, providing customers with essential
information such as fuel burn, percent gas
substitution, hours and diagnostic codes.”
The Cat DGB kit for land drilling and production includes an EMCP 4.4 panel as standard
equipment. The panel handles such routine
generator functions as paralleling and load
sharing, and can automatically start and stop
generators based on overall rig power demand.
“The EMCP 4.4 can dramatically improve
owning and operating costs on a drilling rig
by reducing unnecessary engine run time
and keeping the engines in their sweet spot
for fuel economy and gas substitution,” Bohlmann said. – Caterpillar is at Booth 528.
Caterpillar has now sold 700 DGB kits for the natural
gas-diesel dual fuel operation of E&P engines.
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Thigpen Energy has new backing from Intervale Capital for its high
horsepower natural gas fueling solutions.
Thigpen Reports
Intervale Backing
Thigpen Energy (Booth 320) is announcing a partnership
with Intervale Capital in support of both fleet and geographic expansions for Thigpen’s high horsepower natural gas fueling solutions.
Thigpen says it will work with Intervale affiliate
Recapture Solutions “to monetize and utilize stranded
flare gas,” capitalizing on Recapture’s position in the
Permian, Williston and DJ basins.
“The combination of Recapture and Thigpen’s service
and product offerings will enable customers to economically capture flare gas for fueling,” Thigpen says.
President and CEO Sam Thigpen is to speak at the
Drill Rig Fueling session at in Room 276 at 3:00pm today.
Caterpillar’s Solar Turbines unit is supplying the electricity for Antero Resources
frack spreads in the Marcellus Shale. A field gas-fired “Clean Fleet” rig is saving
“upwards of $40,000 per day,” says provider U.S. Wells Services – and Antero has
signed up for more.
The electricity for USWS Clean Fleet units comes from Taurus 60 mobile power
units by Solar Turbines, each capable of producing 5.67 megawatts of electricity.
“The performance of the new, patented technology is right in line with what we
had promised, especially as it relates to fuel
savings, emissions reductions, vibration and
noise decreases as well
as increased reliability,” U.S. Well Services
CEO Brian Stewart said
in announcing the adUS Wells Services’ Clean Fleet uses a ‘plurality’ of off-the-shelf equipment.
ditional business with
Antero late last month.
“This is a breakthrough for them, but more, it is one for the industry and each of
the communities that support hydraulic fracturing,” Stewart said. “Its adoption and
results further validate the importance of conducting hydraulic fracturing in a more
environmentally responsible manner.”
USWS describes Clean Fleet as a proprietary, patented system incorporating offthe-shelf equipment, uniquely configured. It is said to be the industry’s “first fully
mobile, fully electric hydraulic fracturing system that is powered entirely by natural
gas whereby conventional diesel engines are totally replaced with electric motors.”
Clean Fleet’s Cat/Solar Turbines generator packages “are rugged, highly mobile,
and provide significant fuel options ranging from various liquids to natural gas,”
USWS says.
Caterpillar is at Booth 528.
WEDNESDAY
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast in the Expo Hall G
Sponsored by Air Liquide
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Day Two Welcome Remarks
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
Joel Feucht, GM of Gas Engines, Caterpillar
9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Opening Address
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
Dale Nesbitt, President, ArrowHead Economics
9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Plenary Session #2
Navigating the Regulatory Environment
for New HHP Applications
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
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AGENDA
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom
Lorraine Bolsinger, President & CEO,
GE Distributed Power
Breakout Sessions 3:00 p.m.
12:00 noon - 2:45 p.m.
Networking in the Expo Hall
Hall G
Drill Rig Fueling: A Well of Reliable
Resources – Room 276
3:00 p.m Breakout Sessions
(listed at right)
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Networking Reception in the Expo Hall
Hall G
Sponsored by GNA
Natural Gas for High Horsepower Applications
Session 2.1
Marine Bunkering: Fueling Solutions for
Whatever Floats Your Boat – Room 267
Session 2.2
Session 2.3
Pressure Pumping Engine Optimization:
Fracturing Your Fuel Costs – Room 261
Session 2.4
Case Studies: On Track for the Long Haul
– Room 279
Session 2.5
Powering Industry Beyond the Pipeline
– Room 272