13AUG2019 - NEWS - New study finds use of heavy fuel with scrubbers can help reduce GHG emissions

A recent Norwegian study has concluded that the continued use of heavy fuel oil with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), or scrubbers, will have a positive effect on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Chief scientist Dr Elizabeth Lindstad of Norway’s SINTEF, an independent research organisation, said that based on the energy consumed during the global production of distillates, the continued use of residual fuel is in fact better for the environment given the energy required to produce distillates would result in higher levels of CO2 being released into the atmosphere.