Romanian companies Transgaz and E.ON have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) planning to cooperate in order to consolidate Romania’s energy security by aligning and correlating the development strategies regarding the natural gas infrastructure with the European Green Deal provisions and other European legal provisions in the field. Courtesy of
Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co., through its US-based subsidiary, has acquired an unconventional gas asset in Texas in line with its belief that natural gas and LNG will play an important role as a “pragmatic solution” for the energy transition. Courtesy of Mitsui & Co. On 20 April, Mitsui
The LNG-powered dual-fuel bulk carrier Ubunty Community, built by Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, has been delivered. Image credit: Ubuntu Community The vessel’s registered owner is Marshall Island-based Barney Shiptrade and the 190,000 dwt bulker is intended for Greek-based Maran Dry Management. Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding said this was the sixth 190,000-ton
Energy technology company Baker Hughes has secured an order to deliver two LM9000-driven compressor trains for Petronas’ nearshore LNG facility in Sabah, Malaysia. Floating LNG Satu Dua; Illustration only. Courtesy of Petronas The order was revealed on 19 April and will be booked in the first quarter of 2023. It
Technip Energies, an engineering and technology company, and Casale, a provider of technologies and integrated engineering solutions to produce fertilisers and other base chemicals, have entered a partnership to jointly license oxidative reforming-based technologies – auto thermal reforming (ATR) and partial oxidation (POx) technologies for the blue hydrogen market. Courtesy
Keppel Infrastructure and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore. Image by Keppel Infrastructure According to Keppel, this MoU follows the Singapore government’s launch of its National Hydrogen Strategy in October
Malaysian shipping company MISC Berhad (MISC) has entered into a $527 million sustainability-linked loan for the financing of six very large ethane carriers (VLECs). Illustration; Image credit MISC Group MISC said that the loan was signed through the company’s Singapore-based subsidiaries and that Standard Chartered acted as structuring bank, sustainability
Following ZIM Sammy Ofer, two additional 15,000 TEU LNG-powered containerships that will join the chartered fleet of Israeli shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services under the agreement with Seaspan Corporation have been named in South Korea. Courtesy of ZIM According to ZIM’s social media update, the naming ceremony for ZIM Mount
South Korean shipping major HMM plans to conduct field tests of an onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for containerships along with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and PANASIA in the second half of this year. HMM Nuri; Image credit HMM OCCS is an advanced technology to capture CO2 from greenhouse gas
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has invited bids to build and operate Power-to-X projects with a deadline for applications set to 1 September. Through the tender – the first of this kind in both Denmark and the world – the country has made available DKK 1.25 billion (approximately €167.7 million)