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SGMF Expands Scope in U.S.
The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has appointed a U.S. Vice Chairwoman for its Training and Competency Working Group, expanding the society's scope in the U.S., Marine Log reports.
Margaret Kaigh Doyle is currently Vice President of Development ad LNG Solutions at the U.S. Maritime Resource Center (USMRC) in Rhode Island, which offers Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel training using simulators.
Doyle is also a longstanding member of the U.S. Coast Guard Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee and chairs its subcommittee on safety standards for vessels carrying natural gas as a cargo or a fuel.
The SGMF working group will focus on developing a training and competency framework that complies with International Maritime Organization (IMO) as well as U.S. Coast Guard regulations.
"If the prognosticators are correct, in five years the U.S. will be the Saudi Arabia of natural gas," said Doyle.
"Ships calling on U.S. ports and those doing business in the U.S. will have a real need for LNG as a marine fuel.
"The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel was created as an international organization to further this cause."
Last month, SGMF was set to release a "reasonably prescriptive" guideline document for its members on the principles of LNG bunkering.
