The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has won a contract to provide engines, the fuel storage and supply system, for a new Italian ferry designed to operate on LNG. Courtesy of NAOS Wärtsilä will provide both the ferry’s main and auxiliary engines. The ferry is under construction at the Turkish Sefine
DEME’s Living Stone has successfully installed DolWin6 HVDC cable while powered by LNG, thus significantly reducing emissions. Courtesy of DEME Offshore This is the first time a cable-laying vessel has installed cables while powered on LNG, DEME Offshore reports. Living Stone is DEME’s LNG-powered offshore multipurpose vessel capable of performing
American power and energy company Dominion Energy and a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have agreed to terminate the planned sale of natural gas pipeline company Questar Pipelines. Illustration only; Courtesy of Dominion Energy The companies stated that the termination is a result of ongoing uncertainty associated with a
Chairman of Malaysian oil major Petronas will be retiring from the company and its board after serving his three-year term. Petronas said on Monday that its chairman Tan Sri Ahmad Nizam Salleh completed its three-year contractual tenure from 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2021. Upon his retirement, Tan Sri
Japan’s oil and gas producer Inpex has received its first carbon-neutral LNG cargo from Australia’s Ichthys LNG project. Courtesy of Inpex The 148,000-cubic metres Symphonic Breeze delivered the cargo from the Ichthys LNG export facility in Australia, operated by Inpex. Japan’s energy giant’s first offtake of carbon-neutral LNG was received
The Energy Institute (EI), a membership body bringing together expertise for urgent global challenges, has revealed that the UK’s net-zero strategy must assemble a mass skilled workforce, but action to bring on the necessary workforce is pressing due to concerns about cost, time, and availability of courses. The EI stated
Sweden-based shipping company Wallenius Lines has sealed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Chinese shipyard CIMC Raffles for the construction of up to six pure car carrier (PCC) vessels. Photo by CIMC Raffles As disclosed, the 200-meter long and 37-meter wide vessels will feature 6,500 CEU and fly the
Dunkerque LNG, the owner and operator of France’s Dunkirk LNG import terminal, has put on offer 12 billion cubic meters per annum (bcma) of the terminal’s regasification capacity for 2022. Courtesy of Dunkerque LNG The qualification phase of this 2022 capacity process is starting on 12 July and will end
The board of Nigeria LNG (NLNG) has appointed Philip Mshelbila to replace the company’s current CEO Tony Attah. Illustration only; Courtesy of Nigeria LNG Nigeria LNG (NLNG) is an incorporated joint-venture owned by four shareholders. Those are the Nigerian goverment represented by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (49 per cent), Shell
Dutch marine transportation service provider Future Proof Shipping has received a recommendation from Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR) for its inland vessel Mass to use hydrogen as a fuel for propulsion. As disclosed, the CCNR has recommended that the vessel receives an exemption from the Rhine