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GHG emissions using LNG as marine fuel
The impact of using liquified natural gas (LNG) as fuel for transport can be regarded from two different perspectives:
    •The net benefits of LNG as a replacement for oil fuels, in terms of local air pollution (SOX, NOX and particulate matter (PM))
    •Higher greenhouse gas emission (GHG) potential of methane (higher constituent of LNG)
On the one hand these promising environmental benefits tseem to have already granted LNG a front-runner position as an alternative fuel, but the concerns about the actual GHG life-cycle benefits of natural gas, as opposed to LNG as fuel, are still today in discussion, deserving significant attention and underlining the need to develop adequate mitigating measures. The challenge is to increase the benefits of using LNG as fuel,
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GHG emissions using LNG as marine fuel