James GardinerMarine Engineering, LNG and Ship Fuels Expert at Informa Connect AcademyTrainer
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James is an Independent Marine Engineering Surveyor and Forensic Marine Engineer. For the past 27 years, he has been heavily engaged as an expert regarding LNG vessel and offshore platforms, STS – ports and harbour infrastructure, machinery failure investigation and safety, LNG propulsion and vessel component integrity and failure.
He advises multinational participants in the Oil and LNG/STS, and the geotechnical LNG drilling sector in areas regarding offshore LNG and oil platform installations in Australia, Europe, USA and throughout South East Asia.
He has been engaged on experimental and theoretical investigation of liquid hydrogen pool spreading and vaporization. Pool spreading and vaporization of liquid hydrogen. Simulation of Small-Scale Releases from Liquid Hydrogen Storage Systems by Oil and Gas majors internationally. His recent research has involved assessing cost-effective choices of marine fuels in a carbon-constrained world resulting from theoretical global energy models in Environmental science & technology.
He is an independent expert in the Marine Engineering field, dominating matters involving the Oil and LNG, Hydrogen and biofuel sectors. He lectures in the field of marine survey engineering, LNG auditing and safety throughout South East Asia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America (Gulf). This includes developing and providing expert training in LNG and Hydrogen vessel and offshore platform HSE/NEBOSH/SIMOP/LNG/IMO and ILO.