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John Dwyer Sector Puget Sound
September 2016
National Harbor Safety Conference
LNG as Marine Fuel: Integrating Waterway Suitability Assessments for Multiple LNG Projects Throughout Puget Sound
LNG Fuel Projects: Puget Sound
1. Washington State Ferries (WSF) • Conversion of Six LNG Fueled Issaquah Class Ferries
2. Puget Sound Energy • Construction of Tacoma LNG Fueling Facility
3. Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) • Conversion of Two LNG Fueled ORCA Class
Containerships
4. LNG Bunker Barge
Puget Sound
FOUO
A Complex Waterway System
• A variety of navigational challenges • A variety of sea and weather
conditions • A variety of traffic patterns
San Francisco
LA/LB
San Diego
Puget Sound: Size Comparison with other
Major U.S. Ports
Boston
Miam
i New
York
Puget Sound Waterway Challenges
CO In-Brief – 2008
Washington State Ferry System 24M passengers annually Approx 500 transits per day
3.5M TEU containers thru Seattle & Tacoma; 3rd largest port complex in nation.
Growing Cruise Ship Industry: 960K Passengers, 203+ arrivals
Alaskan Fishing Fleet Homeport; Significant Tribal Fisheries
USN Strategic Port - 3rd Largest Domestic Port - 7 Navy Waterfront Facilities
- 125 regulated commercial facilities
Designated Military Outload Port
~4000 Deep Draft Ship Transits per year
3500 sq. mi. AOR; 123 - 147 mile transits from sea to ports
1.3 Million Recreational Boating Population
15 Billion Gallons of Oil Moved Annually
125 mile long International Border with Canada
Largest Vessel Traffic System in North America: Joint waterway management
Waterway Suitability Assessment • Laid out in NVIC 01-2011 • Performed by applicant • Supports issuance of Letter of Recommendation by COTP • Brief Preliminary WSA • Then in depth follow-on WSA:
• Security threats • Navigational safety hazards • Risk management strategies
• Focus is on the waterway! • Validated by harbor safety committee, area maritime security committee • Public input as appropriate • Ongoing annual validation
Washington State Ferries (WSF) Up to 6 vessels with operation
throughout much of Puget Sound Waterway Suitability Assessment
completed Expert groups HSC, AMSC input Federal Register process
Ltr of Recommendation to WSDOT
Puget Sound Energy • WSA influenced by the WSF
WSA: – Weather and sea conditions – Waterway traffic patterns,
density – Security threats, navigational
hazards – Resources to mitigate threats
• Integrated Tacoma area with rest of Puget Sound that WSF WSA already captured
• Long process! • Letter of Recommendation to
City of Tacoma being developed
Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) Orca Class: M/V NORTH STAR
& M/V MIDNIGHT SUN in service between WA and AK
Integrate Blair Waterway aspects, transit throughout Puget Sound
In process
LNG Bunker Barge
• Membrane LNG barge designed to supply TOTE vessels – bring LNG from British Columbia to Tacoma
• Challenge: WSA has to address challenges of barge tow vs. self propelled
• Project shifted to Florida, but potential remains for LNG to be moved from British Columbia to Washington State
What We Did….
• Used four potential ongoing projects to look at impact on Puget Sound collectively while still providing individual WSAs
• Encouraged submitters to integrate WSAs for common aspects of waterway conditions, features, traffic patterns
• Ensure they captured/addressed differences • COTP analyzing each WSA against NVIC 01
2011, and in concert
Advantages: Integrated WSAs • WSAs that don’t conflict, but support each other • Consistency of data, inputs, engagement of
stakeholders • Enhance quality, effectiveness, efficiencies of WSAs
for future LNG and other energy projects • Continual improvement: Successive new projects can
inform predecessors • Support annual WSA revalidation process,
individually and collectively • Boost role, effectiveness of Harbor Safety Committee,
AMSC
Conclusions
• Integration of WSAs ensures alignment of waterway considerations, past, present, future
• Enables effective updating of evaluation of existing facilities’ WSAs
• Future projects’ differences are more accurately assessed against the region’s collective WSA history
• Enhances waterway expertise of HSC, AMSC, industry, regulators, public
Questions?