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Filed under: Interviews, Johnny Christ
Full Metal Jackie spoke with Johnny Christ and he touched on Waking The Fallen: Resurrected, reviewing old footage for the DVD portion of the re-issue, how Avenged Sevenfold begin the 'writing-new-material' process and what non-musical aspect of touring makes him most appreciative to be on the road.
An anniversary edition is a great opportunity to do something really special for fans. What special edition albums from other bands are your favorites and what other ideas did they give you for 'Waking the Fallen: Resurrected'?
JC: Usually I don't really go back and listen to a lot of special edition ones. The Iron Maiden stuff they have done before, and I think that they have done it a couple of other times, where they do special edition stuff which is cool because they give you a little extra, you know and they are not trying to remaster it. I think those are some of the ideas that we went with.
You can definitely tell the record was made for the time that it was and on the budget that it was. 'Waking the Fallen,' I mean. We think that it is cool. It serves its purpose. It serves its time. We don't want to remaster it or anything like that. To give extra stuff we have put on a few extra tracks of songs that were just a bunch of demoed out songs that eventually became 'Waking the Fallen' songs but there are parts in there where you hear four or five different songs in one song because we were just writing like crazy. Then we just had to go in and listen to them. We started to take apart those songs and make them into more concise songs to create 'Waking the Fallen.' There are even some riffs on there that we didn't even use on 'Waking the Fallen' but we did use on 'City of Evil.' It is kind of wild.
Johnny, was it bittersweet reviewing old footage for the DVD portion of 'Waking the Fallen: Resurrected' and seeing The Rev?
JC: Yeah, you know, we all — it was a different time, so it was just fun to see everyone in that aspect and obviously anytime we see stuff with Jimmy it is just bittersweet. You know, little by little we get by a little better each time. It has been a while and things start to get a little easier as anyone who has lost someone very close to them knows that you still feel that way. But you find out that you can just celebrate it than let it hurt you, so it's actually kind of nice to see The Rev all in black and still wearing makeup and everything like that because that was a time when we were still putting on the makeup and making sure that we were very serious and all in black and everything like that. Now, that just isn't the case anymore. It is fun to look back and see that youthful time.
Filed under: Hail To The King: Deathbat, Interviews, M Shadows, Mayhem Festival 2014
M Shadows was interviewed by 93.3 WMMR's Markus and he spoke about what bands on Mayhem he was excited to see live, what band(s) Avenged Sevenfold wanted on Mayhem Festival's lineup, the biggest prankster in Avenged Sevenfold, what book he's currently reading, Hail To The King: Deathbat, what he did on his time off before writing & recording Hail To The King, playing golf and his current handicap, show day routines, heading overseas in early-2015, Avenged Sevenfold's stage production, giving back to their fans with a great live show, being excited about writing new music, writing 'music' on the road and more.
Filed under: Billboard, Interviews, Waking The Fallen / Waking The Fallen: Resurrected, Zacky Vengeance
Zacky Vengeance talked to Billboard about Avenged Sevenfold's "Waking The Fallen: Resurrected" and getting inspiration to use for new material.
"Waking the Fallen truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time," notes Vengeance. "It was us being fearless, us showing our roots in heavy metal, punk, rock 'n' roll and not being afraid to try everything under the sun when it comes to writing music. We had a real producer (Andrew Murdock). We wanted to take it to a different level rather than keep it in the garage. We really tried to make the album sound good. We tried to learn how to play our instruments better. We wanted to be professional. We learned that bands learn how to play in time and how to sing in key, and we had to work our ass off."
It was also A7X's first release with lead guitarist Synyster Gates, and Vengeance does remember locking horns with Murdock over his role in the group. "Me and him f—in' nearly hated each other, 'cause I'm hard-headed and he was hard-headed," Vengeance recalls. "I think he even tried to get me kicked out of the band at that point — the band I'd f—in' started — 'cause producers could be f—in' retards."
"I think once we get home, the ideas are going to start brewing," Vengeance predicts. "I know Syn's been writing a ton purely for fun, trying different styles, recording backstage, keeping himself busy. I've been thinking of all sorts of ideas, listening to tons of different music to get inspiration — as have all of us. And being on tour, I'm so inspired. Seeing bands like Body Count with Ice-T out there, they're so old-school and riff-based and over the top and slightly offensive and it's f—in' awesome. So there's tons of inspiration that I know we'll be drawing from."
Filed under: Interviews, Radio, Synyster Gates
Meltdown from 101 WRIF talked with Synyster Gates about Mayhem Festival, Body Count, what he thinks about Zakk Wylde calling him the torchbearer for the new generation of guitarists, his top 5 favorite guitarists, blending eclectic elements into Avenged Sevenfold's music, why he brings his Pro-Tools rig on tour with him, what the rig consists of, giving fans their money's worth during live shows and more.
Filed under: Interviews, Music Festivals (USA), Revolver Magazine, Synyster Gates
Jose Mangin interviewed Synyster Gates backstage at Rock On The Range 2014 for Revolver Magazine. Gates talked about Rock On The Range, what bands he wanted to check out at the festival, do's and don'ts of performing at the festival, Hail To The King's success, what his extracurricular actives are and more.
Filed under: Interviews, M Shadows, Mayhem Festival 2014
Candy from Big Dog 106 interviewed M Shadows and he talked about playing the same venue in Idaho on Mayhem for the first time since 2001 on Warped Tour, Waking The Fallen: Resurrected, what 'deep cut' he would like to add to Avenged Sevenfold's set list, Hail To The King: Deathbat, the "This Means War" music video, Avenged Sevenfold's touring plans for the rest of the year, where they may be playing next year, the significance behind the plate he autographed at the Lafayette, LA stop of the Shepherd Of Fire Tour, some of the weirdest things he's autographed and touring with Korn on Mayhem Festival.
Filed under: Interviews, Radio, Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates called into 99.9 KISW to speak with Jolene ahead of Mayhem Festival's stop in Auburn, WA. He spoke about Waking The Fallen: Resurrected, playing Mayhem on his birthday, playing European festivals, the World Cup and more. You can find the photo round-up from Auburn, WA here.
Filed under: Interviews, Johnny Christ, M Shadows, Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates, M Shadows and Johnny Christ spoke to Riverside, CA's Press Enterprise about recording 'Hail To The King' and "hopefully" becoming a band that stood 'test of time.'
For Avenged Sevenfold, which includes singer M. Shadows, with bassist Johnny Christ, new drummer Arin Ilejay and guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance, the [Mayhem] festival is a coronation on the heels of 2013's "Hail to the King," a heavy, hard-hitting album that is the Huntington Beach band's biggest-sounding release yet.
Gates and Shadows spent a lot of time at each other's homes listening to a variety of rock music, going back to the basics and artists that many of their heroes list as influences. They broke down as many tracks as they could, and Gates recalls having lengthy philosophical discussions about AC/DC and the Rolling Stones.
The idea, they say, was to strip everything back and simplify, cut out much of the dueling guitars, the Queen-style backing vocals.
"It was exciting to get back in the saddle and reassure ourselves that we could still do it," Gates says. "We had such a clear vision of what we wanted with this record, (more) than we had on any other record before."
"It was just all so simple," Shadows continues. "But if you add one bad riff or just one bad little note, it just destroys everything. Those guys (AC/DC and the Stones) are geniuses at what they do because most bands can't contain themselves – they have to (mess) it up. So we did our best not to (mess) it up."
"We've had some huge moments," Gates says. "But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded. There's been no overnight success here and we haven't dealt with a whole lot of hot and cold."
"We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things," Johnny Christ adds. "It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
"But we're starting to get to that 'test of time' area. Hopefully, we'll get past that and become the band that stood the test of time. Right now we're just cranking away while we still have youth in us."
Filed under: Arin Ilejay, Interviews, Mayhem Festival
Arin Ilejay talked to Alton, IL's The Telegraph about how it will be touring with alongside Korn on this Summer's Mayhem Festival, the show they'll be bringing to fans and their set list. Brian "Head" Welch (Korn) also spoke about being "guided" by Avenged Sevenfold.
"I really like the bands and really excited to tour with Korn," said Avenged Sevenfold's drummer Arin Ilejay during a recent interview with The Telegraph. "Since Soundwave Festival in Australia we got to know the guys. It's really awesome. As a kid, listening to Korn, it's like, 'No way dude, I'm actually friends with these guys.'"
Yet Korn's guitarist, Brian "Head" Welch, who left the band nearly 10 years ago in 2005, defers to Avenged Sevenfold as the mentors to today's metal musicians.
"I think Avenged is guiding us now because they're huge," Welch said in a separate interview with The Telegraph. "It's cool they got respect for us, now (we're ) just one that influenced them and be looked up to like that. It encourages me to know we helped make them think, 'Maybe I could do this thing for a living.' So we don't mentor, they're going on their own and killing it."
"We are bringing the craziest show, we're bringing so much and blowing things up. This is definitely a city we're looking forward to playing," he said about St. Louis, where the festival takes place at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Mo. "We're constantly driving from city to city now and in the U.S. right now. We're touring a lot, so we're already kind of on fire."
Avenged Sevenfold has mainly been considered by music critics as heavy metal, hard rock and metalcore, which is a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk. They also are known for their album cover's and T-shirt's dramatic imagery. They have released six studio albums, one live album/compilation/DVD, and eighteen singles and sold more than 8 million albums worldwide.
"We're constantly thinking, 'What's going to be best for this city?'," Ilejay said about their body of work. "We don't want to give exactly what we've performed in the past, especially now having this many albums to choose from. We know fans have to hear 'Afterlife' or 'Critical Acclaim,' and do our best to give them their desired stuff, but we will have a lot of 'Hail to the King,' especially live, it changes it, heightens it. The band put a lot of work into it. You see it come to life and lived out on stage."
Filed under: Interviews, M Shadows, Radio
Nick Valdez of San Bernardino's X1039 chatted with M Shadows about what draws Avenged Sevenfold to play festivals, Hail To The King's 'classic metal' sound, Waking The Fallen: Resurrected, what bands he wants to check out at Mayhem Festival and his 4th of July plans.
Filed under: Interviews, Revolver Magazine, Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates reflected on his first show with Avenged Sevenfold to Revolver telling the publication why he turned "bright orange-green like an Oompa Loompa."
"I remember the first show," he says. "I really wasn't nervous at all. The worst part about the first show wasn't nerves, it was the fact I was going to paint my face–like a Wes Borland thing with a weird painted face the whole time. I don't know why, that is horrifying. But once my face was painted, I quickly realized, a shiver went up my spine, that this was a really bad idea. I tried to take the paint off, but I turned bright orange-green like an Oompa Loompa and we couldn't get it off. But I went up there, and that was the only thing I was embarrassed about–an odd tone to my skin color. It was pretty ridiculous."
Filed under: Interviews, Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates shared what his sweatiest concert ever was, one item he'll carry with him all Summer, tips for winning over a crowd, advice for bands just starting to play live and more with Guitar World for their 2014 Summer Tour Survival Guide.
Your sweatiest concert ever?
Definitely the 2004 Warped Tour when we played in Arizona. I think it got up to 127 degrees, and I remember feeling like I was going to faint. Just god awful. So we drank a bunch of margaritas to keep us extremely sedated.
One item you will carry with you at all times this summer?
A ProTools rig strapped to my back, literally. It keeps me sane, writing a bunch of different stuff like classical stuff or any guitar stuff. I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.
Tips for winning over a tough crowd?
You just have to be confident. Don't give 'em anything to further their disapproval. Just go up there, rock out, and act like it's a base of your fans. And don't scream and yell at them.
Filed under: Interviews, Johnny Christ, Live, Music Festivals (Other)
Johnny Christ was interviewed at Graspop Metal Meeting 2014 and spoke a little about being one of the youngest Graspop Metal Meeting headliners, the difference between European and American festivals and the bands stage set for the show. There's also a few glimpses of their performance included.
Filed under: Arin Ilejay, Interviews
Arin Ilejay gave Rhythm Magazine a list of nine drummers that helped influence his style.
"One of the first big influences for me was Dave Weckl. His is the kind of stuff that I would just sit and listen to. I learned drums by just listening to music and playing what I heard. My dad turned me onto Dave Weckl and his playing was incredible. At the time I couldn't pull any of it off, I don't think I could even do any of it now to be honest. I haven't listened to him as much lately because I've been focusing on different music, but he inspired me to want to be better."
"The Mars Volta was a huge thing for me, guys like Jon Theodore and Thomas Pridgen are incredible guys. Thomas Pridgen has been huge for me recently. Jon Theodore had a huge influence on my style as well. He broadened my horizons when it comes to different techniques.
The Rev (Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan) was the person that got me into metal. There weren't any metal drummers that drew me in until him. Jimmy's parts are amazing so [on joining the band] being already a fan of Jimmy – he's one of my favourite drummers – I wanted to do his parts right, you know? So I was like, "I'm going to do these parts right, this is what I'm good at, this is what I do."
Filed under: Arin Ilejay, Hail To The King: Deathbat, Interviews, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, Johnny Christ, M Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance
M Shadows explained each Hail To The King: Deathbat characters weapon to Revolver Magazine. Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan will appear in the game as an unlockable character.
"Well, for instance, Arin [Ilejay] really wanted a blade in each hand with a boomerang effect so that they would come back to him. We couldn't do that, so we compromised and gave him a double-sided sword. Zacky [Vengeance] wanted a baseball bat—he throws rocks at people, and mashes them with a bat. Synyster Gates has a little demon that runs around with him—and when you use his magic powers, you hear one of his dive-bombs, which he recorded specially for it. Johnny [Christ] has the "Hell Sword," which rains blood on people, and I [M Shadows] have "Shadows Sight," which is like a black plume of smoke that you inhale in your lungs. We all did stupid voiceovers for it when we were a little inebriated. [Laughs] Also, with the blessing of his parents, we put The Rev in the game. Once you unlock his character, you can use him as your comrade to help you through the levels."


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Keith Knudsen
Drummer with the Doobie Brothers
Monday 14 February 2005
One of a handful of rock bands with two drummers, the Doobie Brothers had hits in the Seventies with tracks like "What a Fool Believes" and "Minute By Minute". The drummer, percussionist and singer Keith Knudsen joined the group in September 1973 and played on their best-selling albums
Stampede (1975),
Takin' It to the Streets (1976),
Living on the Faultline (1977) and
One Step Closer (1980), co-writing the title track of the latter.
Keith Knudsen, drummer, singer and songwriter: born Le Mars, Iowa 18 February 1948; married (one daughter); died Kentfield, California 8 February 2005.
One of a handful of rock bands with two drummers, the Doobie Brothers had hits in the Seventies with tracks like "What a Fool Believes" and "Minute By Minute". The drummer, percussionist and singer Keith Knudsen joined the group in September 1973 and played on their best-selling albums Stampede (1975), Takin' It to the Streets (1976), Living on the Faultline (1977) and One Step Closer (1980), co-writing the title track of the latter.
The Doobies, as they were known to their fans, broke up in 1982 but reformed seven years later; Knudsen came back in 1993 and contributed several songs to the album Sibling Rivalry (2000), as well as touring with the group and playing on the concert recordings Rockin' Down the Highway (1996) and Live at Wolf Trap (2004).
Born in Le Mars, Iowa in 1948, Keith Knudsen became interested in drumming through the music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Burnette and the Everly Brothers. He joined the marching band of his junior high school and began playing gigs in bars.
In 1969 he moved to San Francisco and joined the house band at the Matrix club, the legendary Bay Area venue where the psychedelic group Jefferson Airplane had made their name. The following year, he met an early incarnation of the Doobie Brothers - a former San José biker-band named after the Californian hippie slang for a joint - while recording with the Blind Joe Mendlebaum Blues Band. For the next couple of years, he accompanied the cult singer-songwriter-pianist Lee Michaels on stage.
By 1973, through constant touring, the Doobie Brothers had achieved chart success with "Listen to the Music", "Jesus Is Just Alright", "Long Train Runnin'" and "China Grove", while the albums Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me had both gone gold in the United States. Bruce Cohn, their manager, called up Knudsen to replace Mike Hossack on drums and percussion and, after a week's rehearsals, he joined a line-up which consisted of Tom Johnston (vocals, guitar), Patrick Simmons (vocals, guitar), Tiran Porter (bass), John Hartman (drums, percussion) and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (guitar).
The newly arrived drummer played percussion and sang backing vocals on What Were Once Vices are Now Habits (1974). During the "Looney Tunes" package tour the following year, Knudsen and Hartman formed a powerful drumming partnership, dovetailing beautifully during the group's marathon concerts. "Sometimes I would play the basic track and John would play the character parts, like fills or an extra percussion part," Knudsen explained. "Or we'd trade on the drum kit during the same track."
In 1975, the vocalist and piano player Michael McDonald replaced Tom Johnston and the Doobie Brothers became a smoother, funkier proposition, achieving platinum status with their next four albums and shifting 10 million copies of Best of the Doobies. The input of Knudsen and the producer Ted Templeman proved crucial during the recording of the Michael McDonald / Kenny Loggins composition "What a Fool Believes". "Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to pull off," recalled the drummer.
We were having real trouble with it until Ted said, "Let me play the snare drum and hi-hat with you." The actual record has Ted and me playing drums. That's the reason the track came off. It's so simple: there are no drum fills.
In the Eighties, Knudsen played with the guitarist John McFee in the country rock group Southern Pacific. He returned to the Doobie Brothers in 1993 and toured with them until 2004.
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Apple's long-speculated tablet-based Mac, which is rumoured to be a little-like a gigantic iPhone, could well be announced next week - and word has it EA could be in on the debut.
"Apple is working with videogame publisher Electronic Arts Inc. to show off the tablet's game capabilities, according to one person familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal reports.
The press event will be held by Apple on January 27th, and US press are attending the bash en masse.
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It's a real shame this guy Britton only seemed to focus on grabbing more and more land. Why couldn't he focus on proper maintenance of the land they had already grabbed?
It's good to see him go... Time wounds all heels (or something like that)
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Residents continue to sound off about a plan to bring a natural gas plant to Berks County.
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Last month the South Heidelberg Township board of supervisors voted to give preliminary approval to EmberClear Corporation to build a natural gas to gasoline plant on a 63-acre plot of land.
Residents say they're concerned about things like safety and property values.
"We really want to educate the public, make sure they understand what's going on in their community. there's a lot of people that we've found out don't even know that this is happening," said Sal Franco.
Township officials say safety is an important factor but say the company met all the criteria for the preliminary approval.
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by Adam Finley, posted Sep 4th 2006 3:01PM
Sometime ago I had a brief e-mail confab with Amid Amidi, a cartoon historian and writer who also worked for Spumco, John K's animation studio. We talked about a book he was working on titled Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation. That book is now available for purchase, and I recommend it to anyone interested in this particular era of animation and design. The book is filled with wonderful production stills and sketches from the television age, and Amidi goes into great details about the production studios (Hanna Barbera, Terrytoons, etc.) as well as all the great artists of that era who took a new direction from the animated images of the 30s and 40s and introduced a brand new modern aesthetic: Tom Oreb, Maurice Nobel, and the recently deceased Ed Benedict, who was able to create distinct characters for Hanna Barbera on a low budget that are still admired today. Amidi also has a Web site called Cartoon Modern, and he runs the Cartoon Brew site with fellow animation buff Jerry Beck.
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Hey, how's your weekend going? Pretty good? Got any plans? Did you say just say "yes?" Why did you answer me out loud? It's not like I can hear you. Anyway, I like to occasional toss random tidbits your way on these lazy weekends, so I invite you to click over to News from me, which has a very funny clip from Sid Caesar's seminal comedy variety series, Your Show of Shows. This was the serious that featured the talents of some of the greatest actors and writers in the business such as Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, and Neil Simon. In this clip, Caesar, Reiner, Howie Morris and Imogene Coca play mechanical figures on a town clock that slowly begins to go haywire. Sit back, laugh, and watch how the pros used to do it.
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Shane Guidry and Harvey Gulf team up with leading industry naval architects, engine suppliers, classification societies, regulatory bodies and a host of others to bring U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore energy into the 21st Century – and beyond.
Often out in front of the competition in many ways, Harvey Gulf International's effort to build a new class of dual fueled LNG-powered offshore supply vessels (OSV's) again raises the bar higher for those competing in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore markets. Among the first to be classed under the ABS Guide for Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems for Gas Fueled Ships (May 2011), the vessels will be the first dual fueled LNG-powered vessels under US flag. The new vessels will also receive environmentally-friendly notations from ABS.
With construction already underway at Mississippi-based TY Offshore, Harvey Gulf International has four of the DP-2 rated (302' x 64') Dual Fuel Supply Vessels on order, with options for two more. The expected delivery date for the first hull could come as soon as mid-November 2013, with the others following in close order (every 3.5 months) after that. What comes next may be the beginning of a remarkable transformation in how business is done in the competitive U.S. GOM trades.
In 2000, Wärtsilä was in on the ground floor of LNG propulsion in Norway. Working with the local directorate there (Coast Guard equivalent), they were initially turned down, but having defined the risks and then working with DNV, the first vessel with natural gas was built – the Viking Energy. Back then, there was no precedent and classification rules had to be written from scratch. Today, and with class rules well developed, the only variable rested in the fact that the U.S. Coast Guard hadn't done it before. But, according to the Coast Guard itself, until regulations can put into place, they would be guided by IMO Resolution (MSC.1 285-86), Interim Guidelines on Safety for Natural Gas –Fueled Engine Installations in Ships.
Peter Jacobs, General Manager for Wärtsilä North America recalls the early days of the project. "They (Harvey Gulf) called us and we developed the overall solution together. The engine technology didn't change from what we had in Europe." This dated back to Wärtsilä's early visionary, Trgve Eiken of the Wärtsilä Design Ship Group, and the Viking Energy, which entered into service back in 2003. He added, "So, yes, it is new to the Gulf of Mexico but not new to Europe. That vessel has not lost one hour of downtime due to this equipment since it has been commissioned."
Mike Carroll, Vice President of STX US Marine told MarPro in July, "The short story is that there is technology out there that Harvey Gulf was looking to offer its clients, giving them options, better rates and better opportunities. So, we worked very close with all parties putting together this concept. This involved ABS and the Coast Guard. We looked at all the manufacturers that were offering dual fuel systems and ultimately settled on Wärtsilä. Once we had the first concept together, we met with ABS to put together a plan to get this in front of the Coast Guard."
From the outset, safety was the key. Bill Lind, Director of Technology and Business Development on Marine side of ABS, said, "One of the things that has made this project so successful was that we could work very closely with a small group of people with the Coast Guard who are up to speed on the international requirements, and where they were going with their own. The Coast Guard's big concern involves bunkering."
Often, however, a stellar safety record in one aspect of a particular area – in this case LNG – when applied to another application, does not translate over with it. Lind continued, "So, STX, ABS, Harvey Gulf and the Coast Guard, too have taken a conservative approach to this design, to set the safety bar for the other supply vessels that follow it. For example, Harvey Gulf could've slid the fuel tank under the accommodations but they did not. They could've used single wall piping instead of double wall piping – but they didn't. And where others – some in Europe, for example – are using self-certification of some components, Harvey Gulf agreed with the Coast Guard that it did not make sense."
As the project moved forward, it was clear that it would be unlike anything that had come before it. Lind neatly summed up the process, adding, "The design and engineering had to be done up front. This has not been a case of throwing something together based on need; it has been a case of all the major players sitting together at the table with multiple meetings to solve issues as a team. It has been a large change in how these vessels are built."
Many variables for these vessels had to be considered, including the extra weight involved, more space required for the bunker arrangements, special handling requirements for LNG and the positioning of the bunker tanks themselves. To that end, STX introduced its (patent pending) design which Carroll characterizes as "the functional arrangement of a dual fuel OSV." He added, "The engine meets the latest IMO EPA requirements, but the most important thing is the integration of the LNG system and deciding how that system is most efficiently arranged within the ship. It is not an overly complicated system and from a regulatory framework, the IMO Interim Guidelines was available at the start of the project. We put together a design basis with input from Wärtsilä and ABS, anticipating how to approach the Coast Guard. This gave the Coast Guard the design framework that we intended to follow and allowed them to confirm, deny or modify what we needed to do to make the project work. The recent USCG policy letter on gas fueled vessels is a result of the design basis submitted for this project."
As the boats are built, Wärtsilä is on site in the shipyard in an advisory role. And because the engine itself has no real quirks, it is just like installing a diesel. Wärtsilä's Jacobs said "The only real difference is the fuel piping that's double-walled, but with the engine itself, there's no difference for the shipyard. The learning curve is going to be a short one." But, the process is a new one for U.S. shipyards, and it is likely that the shipyard involved in the first hulls – in this case, TY Offshore – could have the upper hand in future contract bids.
The bunker system, LNG tanks, piping, the electric drive system and the drives themselves, the motors themselves – are all mapped out by Wärtsilä for the design package. Jacobs adds, "In this case, we're doing the whole vessel control system, so we're taking control of the ballast system, power management system, the automation system – it's a complete, integrated package. So, for the shipyard, their risk is minimized, because they – for this aspect(s) of the vessel, they have one vendor to talk to."
Whereas many U.S. owners can find any number of reasons to not go ahead with this kind of project, Harvey Gulf's Shane Guidry found every reason to proceed. And, problems anticipated by others turned out to be, for the most part, non-factors. Chad Verret, Senior Vice-President, Alaska & Deepwater Operations for Harvey Gulf explained why.
"As a charterer, the customer typically provides fuel. So, we've got a tender out there that says, for example, a major oil company will provide their own LNG. We've been approached by a few customers that we've pitched boats to and they are saying, 'Where are we going to get LNG?' We've told them that we will secure a reliable source of LNG and facilitate that for them. This means that we'll make sure the fuel is available. I can pick up the telephone today and make sure there is a truckload of LNG in Port Fourchon in 48 hours. There is a reliable source of LNG available today."
Bill Lind paints a similar picture. "Five to ten years from now, we won't be having conversations about the availability of LNG. It will be a moot point. Availability will be there, especially given the variety of projects going on, across different vessel types. Those pressures all ensure that the distribution system will be a moot point."
In terms of supply and safety, Harvey Gulf made no decisions in a vacuum. Instead, Verret visited Norway and Finland earlier this year and met with the operator of four LNG powered PSV's (with a fifth under construction). Verret told MarPro in July, "They have a number of sites set up for LNG refueling; shore supported facilities and truck supported operation. In place for ten years, these operators have not had one LNG-fuel related incident or equipment failures, during bunkering or underway."
A typical supply boat not only carries diesel fuel, but also diesel fuel as cargo. So, volumetrically, there are usually tremendous amounts of diesel on a PSV. With regard to the LNG vessels, the LNG tank itself is a 290m3 tank which volumetrically holds +/- 68,000 gallons of LNG, giving the vessel about 10 days of transit speeds at 12 KT. The engines use 1 percent diesel fuel as pilot fuel. Verret adds, "Because it is dual fuel and if we have an operational scenario that's beyond that, we can also transit in diesel mode and then switch to gas mode once we get on station."
Harvey Gulf CEO Shane Guidry sees considerable upside to this leap of faith. He'll need to, because the cost of these vessels is about 16 percent higher than conventional OSV's. But, the payback promises to be remarkably swift. Wärtsilä's John Hatley explains, "Based on business case studies that we have done, the more energy the vessel consumes, the faster the benefits accrue with the lower cost LNG. For OSV's, that payback of the additional costs can be in the vicinity of just 2-3 years. This is not uncommon. This is also quite dependent on the price estimates for future distillates costs. Obviously, the greater the difference in price between LNG and distillates, the faster the payback can come. And, of course the busier the vessel – the service cycles will come into play. But this isn't just a matter of dollars; it's also about the future emissions regulations. This includes ECA's, and sulfur requirements being pushed out of the fuel. All of these variables will come into the decision process."
For now, the fuel source is significantly cheaper. Verret adds, "We've got quotes for a truck-based refueling operation at $1.85 per gallon diesel equivalent. Diesel is about $3.35 per gallon equivalent today. This is significant when you are talking about a boat that burns 4,000 – 6,000 gallons of fuel per day."
Other dividends abound: running in gas mode significantly reduces the wear on engines. A vessel operated largely in gas mode will extend the life of the engine. Wärtsilä's Jacobs has been involved in the project since the beginning. As the first manufacturer of dual fuel engines for commercial marine markets, no one arguably has more experience with this technology. Jacobs insists, "When operators pull cylinders for major overhauls, the engines show very clean with very little carbon buildup and that's what causes the wear on the engines. Harvey Gulf, for example, will have a condition-based maintenance program. After the first major overhaul and based on close inspection of components, they might be able to extend the next overhaul interval dramatically. Harvey Gulf will be connected to a remote monitoring service whereby data from all over the vessel will be logged, trended and analyzed." Jacobs adds, "Our computers crunch those reports on a daily basis at our facility, and any red flags will be scrutinized by appropriate personnel to see if there needs to be some sort of interruption, or a call to the vessel itself." The data feeds will be done via satellite, likely via live data stream.
In terms of environmental performance, the decision to go ahead with the dual fuel option was an easy one. That's not to say that there weren't trade-offs. Verret explains, "In gas mode, the engine currently exceeds the IMO Tier III level for category III engines by about 85%. We're confident that we'll meet Tier IV levels when that does happen. Originally, we tried to go with a smaller, lighter engine to fit our application, but we decided to go to the category III engine." Because the weight of the engines and gensets were three times as heavy as other conventional equipment, the 'tween deck heights had to be adjusted by as much as much as 5.5 feet. Verret says that although they lost a little deadweight capacity in the process, OSV's have fairly high deadweight ability in general. He admits, "We lost a little, but we did make the boat ten feet longer. So, the net difference is not all that much."
In the smooth wake of Harvey Gulf's bold move to dual fuel technology, a torrent of activity for a wide range of marine applications has been seen. In July, Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced plans to begin developing low-speed, dual-fuel, marine diesel engines capable of using not only conventional heavy oil but also natural gas for their fuel. Scheduled to be launched in 2015, MHI also aims to reduce the economic and environmental burden on ship operators.
In August, Washington-based Totem Ocean Express (TOTE) announced an $80 million conversion from diesel to LNG for two 840-foot containerships. TOTE insists that the conversions will pay off well prior to retiring the vessels. Approved by the U.S. Coast Guard, the conversion involves installation of enough fuel capacity for the vessels to make their usual Washington to Alaska roundtrip. Faced with coming rules stipulating low-sulfur distillates that promised a 25 percent fuel price hike, the move makes a lot of sense.
And then, there's Netherlands-based Veka-Group's announcement that it had developed three new LNG tankers, which can also be used as bunker ships. One, an LNG inland waterway bunker ship, is the first of its type. Propelled almost completely on 'boil off,' it is billed as an "emission-free" vessel. Veka expects the use of LNG by ships for coastal and inland shipping to increase markedly in the near term. The LNG inland shipping bunker tanker is expected to debut in late 2013.
Separately, ABS in the Americas alone has about twenty projects where people are watching Harvey Gulf. Bill Lind adds, "We're talking to ferry boat operators, supply vessel operators and Jones Act people. This sort of thing is always going to be easier if you know that the vessel is always coming back to the same port for bunkering. So, supply vessels and ferries will likely be first out of the gate. In other places, it won't be so much about economical concerns, it'll be a scenario of 'go clean or you can't operate.' The Great Lakes is one of those places. But no one is going to change to LNG on a vessel with only five years of service left in the hull. It's more expensive to install these systems then conventional engines."
Public perception will also play a role in whether LNG will fly in a particular market. Port Fourchon, LA, for example, will probably handle it better than a residential community with ferry service where someone is proposing an LNG terminal. Globally, the marine experience for dual fuel engines exceeds 500 engines employed on more than 125 vessels. In terms of marine experience alone, more than 4 million largely trouble-free hours have been logged. Still, the Harvey Gulf project might be perceived by some as something new and risky. In reality, it is anything but.
When it comes to the Harvey Gulf project, all of the players could agree on one thing: Shane Guidry the lynchpin of the deal. Peter Jacobs told MarPro in July, "Finding an owner who was aggressive enough to move forward was the key. Shane Guidry is that man. He made a brilliant business decision. We go to conferences and speak to owners who always have hesitation, thinking of any number of reasons why it can't be done. Guidry took the step to just do it and within a very short period of time, he had many potential sources of gas identified. He put himself in the driver's seat."
Guidry's vision extends to places most in the U.S. markets wouldn't bother to go. Taking lessons from what the Norwegians are already doing, the Harvey Gulf vessels will be fitted with state-of-the-art accommodations. According to Mike Carroll from STX, "These will be on par with any four star hotel you could go into. The Gulf of Mexico and North Sea markets grew up separately. Over the years, they've gotten closer. So, the vision goes beyond the GOM itself, Shane Guidry wants to be able to position his boats anywhere in the world and be on par with the competition – foreign or otherwise. They've incorporated the best of both into these hulls."
Operators like Harvey Gulf and TOTE are today plotting a course for others to eventually follow in their wake. But, with all we know today, you have to wonder what the others are waiting for.
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