Dutch marine biofuels supplier GoodFuels and Japanese general trading company ITOCHU Corporation have entered into a partnership agreement to scale sustainable marine biofuel in Singapore, Japan and Asia-Pacific. Under the long-term agreement, signed on 12 May, the two companies will combine their respective expertise to build the market and develop
DEME’s new installation vessel Orion has officially joined the fleet and wrapped up a ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation at DEME’s base in Vlissingen. Courtesy of DEME On 30 April, DEME stated that its offshore installation vessel Orion officially joined its fleet. DEME specifically said this next-generation vessel brings a game-changing
Dutch gas infrastructure firm Gasunie and Belgian LNG terminal operator Fluxys have joined forces for a Dutch-Belgian hydrogen network connection in North Sea Port. Pascal De Buck (CEO Fluxys), Daan Schalck (CEO North Sea Port), and Helmie Botter (manager business development hydrogen Gasunie); Courtesy of Gasunie Gasunie and Fluxys are
Germany’s emission-free hydrogen-fueled push boat Elektra has been christened earlier this week, allowing the testing of the vessel to begin. On 16 May, the Governing Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey christened Elektra in Berlin’s Westhafen after two years of construction at the Hermann Barthel GmbH shipyard in Derben and the
On 17 May 2022, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of amendments to the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in the Environment Committee. To incentivise industries to further reduce their emissions and invest in low-carbon technologies, the ETS should be reformed and its scope enlarged, MEPs
Chevron has completed maintenance work at its Wheatstone LNG facility in Australia, specifically on one of the two LNG processing trains. Courtesy of Chevron In an e-mail statement, a Chevron spokesperson told Offshore Energy that “scheduled maintenance at the Wheatstone natural gas facility has been safely completed.” According to Reuters,
Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries has ordered tank designs of six LNG-fueled container vessels from French LNG containment specialist GTT. Hyundai Heavy orders GTT tank design for 6 new LNG-fueled containerships GTT informed in a statement that it received this order to design the cryogenic fuel tanks in April 2022.
Helbio, a subsidiary of Sweden-based energy system developer Metacon, has delivered the first “ammonia cracker” prototype to the Norwegian maritime technology company Pherousa Green Technologies. At the same time, Metacon through Helbio decided to increase its shareholding from 5% to 10% in Pherousa. As explained, ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion rates greater than
UK-based oil and gas giant BP and German engineering firm Linde plan a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will enable low carbon hydrogen production at Linde’s existing facilities. Courtesy of bp This development will also support the storage of CO2 captured from other industrial facilities.