Ship Energy Services

Improving the fuel efficiency and environmental impact of your operations

Our range of ship energy services is specifically aimed at helping you to increase your fuel efficiency and achieve your operational goals

To meet the challenge of rising fuel costs and reduce the impact of fuel use on the environment, you need an energy efficient fleet that complies with best practice performance monitoring and fleet management processes.

Our range of ship energy services is specifically aimed at helping you to increase your fuel efficiency and achieve these operational goals.

Managing and reducing fuel consumption

Fuel can account for between 35 and 65% of a ship’s total operational costs. In a competitive market dominated by rising oil prices and environmental concerns, the reduction of fuel consumption, or the use of alternative fuels or retrofitted technologies, is a high priority.

Effective reduction of fuel consumption is possible if a combination of design optimisation, in-service performance monitoring, energy audit and best-practice operational management processes is utilised. The right combination may also help you to enhance the maintainability of your ships, leading to reduced downtime, both planned and unplanned, and increasing the availability of your ships.

How can Lloyd’s Register help?

We have many years’ experience in ship performance analysis, machinery condition monitoring, and fuel, lubricating oil and exhaust emissions testing. We also have ready access to a vast amount of ship data and are therefore well placed to help you to reduce your fuel consumption and demonstrate a commitment to minimising the impact of your operations on the environment.

We offer a range of ship energy services that can be customised according to your particular needs. Working closely with you and your technical staff, we aim to improve fuel efficiency across your fleet in a cost-effective manner.

In-service energy optimisation

We can help you to reduce the fuel consumption of existing ships by conducting energy surveys and analysing a range of data collected during operation. The range of techniques we employ includes:

Ship energy audit
We carry out a systematic and holistic investigation, encompassing both the technical and non-technical aspects of your ship’s operation. This involves a comprehensive data analysis combined with a shipboard audit. The main objective is to identify a set of achievable objectives for attaining better energy efficiency. We analyse the feasibility of each potential objective from both a technical and an economic point of view. We then produce a detailed report, which sets targets for the future operation of your ships and is designed to help your fleet managers and chief engineers achieve an enhanced operational fuel efficiency.

Ship performance monitoring
We examine your ships’ technical systems, main machinery and operational profile to identify potential deviations in performance from design or best practice. Following this, we provide full reports, recommending specific corrective actions that will help to improve the performance of your ships and machinery.

Fleet energy management support
We can also help you with any energy-related aspects of fleet management that are beyond the current resources of your team. For example, we can provide advice on the environmental issues related to fuel use, on alternative energy-efficient technologies and on best-practice operational standards.

Design optimisation support

We can also audit the design of your ship against energy efficiency standards before it is built. To help ensure energyefficient procurement, we can carry out a ship specification review prior to the contract date with the shipyard. We can also carry out an energy performance assessment during commissioning trials to ensure that it complies with specification.

Alternative technologies

We can work with you to assess the energy efficiency and environmental impact of a range of alternative fuels and alternative propulsion and auxiliary technologies.

Summary of benefits

• Can help to optimise fuel consumption across your fleet.

• Improved performance monitoring may lead to reduced downtime, both planned and unplanned, increasing the availability of your ships.

• Helps to reduce the impact of your operations on the environment.

• A reduction in fuel consumption can help to enhance your operational performance.