Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are entering into a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Funded by a grant from Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP), the project, SOFC4Maritime,
French LNG containment specialist GTT has been given a favorable update on the appeal procedure in a case with the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Courtesy of GTT/Roland Mouron The South Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) issued an $11.3 million fine noting that GTT’s commercial practices have not complied with Korean
Yara Marine Technologies, a Norway-based provider of exhaust gas cleaning systems, has selected Phoenician Energy’s aluminum-air batteries as the winner of its corporate accelerator program, Yara Marine X. Yara Marine X was launched in September as a startup competition aiming to provide a home for technology and solutions that are
Australian Woodside expanded an LNG supply deal with German energy company Uniper. The agreement will double the amount of LNG it supplies. Courtesy of Woodside Initial supply commercing in 2021 is now up to 1 million tonnes per annum of LNG, from 0.5 million tonnes per annum agreed earlier. From
T The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy will allocate $160 million to projects to improve fossil-based hydrogen production, transport, storage and utilization. Courtesy of DOE The US will authorize finances for advanced technologies for improvement of performance reliability and flexibility of methods to produce hydrogen. This
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. facilities have jumped in November 2020, according to the latest Department of Energy report. Courtesy of Cheniere The U.S. Department of Energy noted that a total of 87 cargoes of the chilled fuel departed the country’s export plants. This was 20 cargoes
Costa Toscana, an LNG powered, 185,000 GT cruise ship being built for Carnival’s Italian brand Costa Cruises, was floated out to the outfitting pier at Finland’s Meyer Turku shipyard on 15 January 2021. During the float-out ceremony, Costa Toscana officially touched the sea for the first time, with the flooding of the
Russian Shipbuilding Complex Zvezda has cut steel for the third MR-type product carrier operating on LNG as marine fuel ordered by the compatriot shipping major Sovcomflot in 2019. Image by Rosneft The 1B-ice class tanker will have a deadweight of about 50,000 tonnes, length of over 180 meters, width of
Russia’s largest shipping company Sovcomflot has taken delivery of the Shell-chartered LNG carrier, SCF Timmerman. Courtesy of Sovcomflot The vessel, capable of transporting up to 174,000 cubic meters of the chilled fuel has already left the Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries yard in South Korea on its maiden voyage. Commenting on
