Norwegian energy giant Equinor and the US energy infrastructure company Tallgrass are exploring opportunities for the development of large-scale low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia projects in North America. The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to assess the production and market potential for hydrogen and ammonia and associated distribution
OOCL gives biofuel a whirl
Hong Kong-based container shipping company Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has completed a trial use of marine biofuel for the first time in its fleet. The trial was carried out on OOCL Yokohama, a 4578-TEU container vessel. The containership was fueled with 1999.3 metric tons of B22 marine biofuel provided
ESG: Is there too much focus on the E?
Over the past couple of years, the maritime industry stakeholders have stepped up their sustainability efforts by producing their ESG strategies and starting to publish their first sustainability reports. Over the board, the companies agree they need to decarbonize their operations at least by 2050, they need to create better
Russia’s Sovcomflot marks 1st ever LNG bunkering in country’s history
Russia’s largest shipping company PAO Sovcomflot and compatriot oil company PAO Gazprom Neft have carried out the first-ever bunkering of a marine vessel with liquified natural gas (LNG) in the history of the country’s transport industry. The bunkering operation involved Sovcomflot’s crude oil tanker Korolev Prospekt which was refueled by
Ørsted and Energy Dome team up on CO2 Battery energy storage facilities
Offshore wind developer Ørsted has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Energy Dome, an energy storage solution provider, to run a feasibility study on the deployment of a 20MW / 200MWh energy storage facility. Courtesy of Energy Dome The partners plan to deploy the energy storage facility using Energy
Dutch offshore wind-to-hydrogen project gathers feasibility study team
The consortium comprising RWE and Neptune Energy has awarded contracts to Siemens Gamesa and Dutch engineering companies H2SEA and Enersea to support concept engineering work as part of the feasibility study for the H2opZee green hydrogen project in the Netherlands. H2opZee, announced earlier this year and planned to be built
MHI, Keppel, DNV agree to explore adoption of ammonia-fired gas turbine in Singapore
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Keppel New Energy and DNV have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a strategic collaboration to explore the feasibility and implementation of an ammonia-fired gas turbine on Jurong Island, Singapore. Under the MoU, the three companies will work together to perform a high-level quantitative risk
MOL enters ship fuel efficiency partnership, backs Mission Possible’s ammonia proposal
Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), its group company MOL Techno-Trade (MOLTT) and Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen) have formed a strategic partnership to progress fuel efficiency of MOL Group-operated vessels and minimise vessels’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Illustration. Courtesy of MOL With the technology playing an increasingly critical role
UK: DNV to test safe use and conversion of pipelines to transport 100% hydrogen
DNV has secured a contract to provide the evidence required to demonstrate the safe use and conversion of the local transmission systems (LTS) high-pressure pipelines for transporting 100% hydrogen in the UK. The gas distribution company SGN manages around 3,100 kilometres of the LTS pipelines in the UK and is
No significant damage on BP’s new Tortue FPSO, partner says
Following a recent impact of a typhoon in China, BP’s new Tortue FPSO, built for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project in Mauritania and Senegal, has been returned to the quayside of the COSCO shipyard with no significant damage reported so far. The construction of the floating production, storage