Singapore’s shipbuilder Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured new contracts from repeat customers with a total value estimated at about $186 million. Namely, its subsidiary Keppel Shipyard has been awarded contracts worth around S$250 million for the conversion of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), integration of a floating
Green SCR system for German cruise ship
MAN PrimeServ Augsburg, part of MAN Energy Solutions, has completed the retrofitting of dual selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems aboard the cruise ship MS Amadea. Photo: MAN ES The vessel is chartered by Germany’s PHOENIX Reisen GmbH Bonn and managed by BSM Cruise Services. Also known as ‘Das Traumschiff’, the
Petrofac looks into green hydrogen development on Russia’s Sakhalin Island
International energy services provider Petrofac has won its first new energy-focused project in Russia for the first wind-to-hydrogen development on Sakhalin Island. Courtesy of Petrofac Petrofac signed a three-year consultancy framework agreement that spans the early engineering phases of the green hydrogen project. H4 Energy, under the management of H2Transition
Samsung Heavy scores Cedar LNG FEED contract
Cedar LNG has signed a deal with Black & Veatch and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the project’s proposed FLNG. Illustration only; Coral Sul FLNG; Courtesy of SHI The Haisla Nation-owned project has now reached key milestones for its proposed export facility in Kitimat,
MOL bunkering vessel trials biodiesel fuel
Japanese bunkering vessel Techno Star has been successfully operated using biodiesel fuel (BDF) supplied by Aburatou Shoji K.K. Photo: MOL The 800 dwt ship is owned and operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines group company MOL Techno-Trade (MOL Tech). Classification society ClassNK certified that nitrogen oxygen (NOx) emissions from the vessel
MMA Offshore inks contract renewal with Inpex
Offshore vessel provider MMA Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract for one of its platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Inpex Operations Australia, a subsidiary of Japan’s oil and gas producer Inpex, for operations offshore Western Australia. MMA Offshore announced a contract renewal with Inpex on Wednesday for the chartering
MOL signs charter for new Arctic LNG 2 ice-breaking carrier
Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed a charter contract for a newbuilding ice-breaking carrier to serve Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project. Illustration only; Courtesy of MOL MOL agreed to participate in cargo transport for the Arctic LNG 2 project on Russia’s Gydan Peninsula. In addition, a MOL
LNG carrier comes for 1st export cargo from Calcasieu Pass
Maran Gas-owned LNG carrier Yiannis has arrived at the new Calcasieu Pass export facility in Louisiana to take over the first export cargo. Courtesy of Venture Global LNG LNG project developer Venture Global initially planned for its Calcasieu Pass LNG facility to start operations in Q1 2023. However, the facility
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Hapag-Lloyd to deploy first dual-fuel 23,500+ TEU ships in 2023
German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd plans to deploy the first of its twelve new 23,500+ TEU vessels in 2023, Lutz-Michael Dyck, Senior Director Strategic Asset Projects at Hapag-Lloyd, confirmed. In late 2020 and mid-2021, the European ocean carrier ordered a dozen of new ultra large container vessels (ULCVs) from South