The European Commission (EC) has presented a plan on how the EU can rapidly reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and fast forward the green transition. The European Union’s REPowerEU plan came as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the risks involved with being reliant on Russian
French engineering and technology company, Technip Energies, and its affiliates, Kanfa and Inocean, have launched the GO.H2TM by T.EN suite of carbon-free solutions for green hydrogen production. This suite of solutions – based on renewable power sources such as wind and solar – is said to be flexible with building
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.
