HST Marine orders three new battery hybrid CTVs

Offshore services provider HST Marine has contracted Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards for the supply of three new battery hybrid crew transfer vessels (CTVs). The trio is already under construction at Damen Shipyards Antalya in Turkey and is scheduled for delivery in early 2024 for an undisclosed price. Once operational, the vessels will receive ongoing support

Celsius orders LNG carrier from Samsung

Celsius Tankers has ordered an additional 180,000 cu m LNG carrier at Samsung Heavy Industries. With this its orderbook of ultra-eco ships at the yard reaches to 10 and adding to the fleet of four units already delivered in 2020 and 2021. The vessel will be built to Lloyds’ Register class EEDI 3 meeting IMO

Centrica to work along with Ryze Hydrogen for hydrogen development

Energy giant Centrica and Ryze Hydrogen will jointly build and operate hydrogen production facilities aimed at providing a reliable supply of hydrogen for industry and transportation, it was announced (TUES). Under the landmark agreement the firms will jointly develop hydrogen production projects on existing Centrica sites and work with third-parties to build production on their

ConocoPhillips to supply LNG to Germany

ConocoPhillips signed two contracts to buy LNG from QatarEnergy and deliver it to Germany beginning in 2026, marking the first ever long-term supply agreement to move the super-chilled fuel to Europe’s largest gas-consuming nation. Under the agreements, Conoco would purchase 2 million tons (Mt) of liquefied natural gas annually for a term of at least

Rolls-Royce tested world’s first hydrogen jet engine

Rolls-Royce and European airline easyJet announced that they’ve successfully tested a hydrogen jet engine — technology the companies hope might eventually help erase aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The ground test marks “the world’s first run of a modern aero engine on hydrogen,” Rolls-Royce said in a press release. Aviation is considered one of the most

Researchers at IIT Jodhpur develop materials to produce hydrogen

The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur have developed Lanthanides based perovskite nanocomposite catalytic materials for artificial photosynthesis to produce high-purity hydrogen. IIT Jodhpur further said in a statement that Hydrogen-based energy is the only viable source for a green and sustainable future. More than 90 per cent of the source of hydrogen

GAIL may enter into short-term LNG contracts

With a sharp spike in prices of liquefied natural gas (LNG) which has pushed up the cost of production of urea, the fertilizer subsidy is likely to cross Rs 2.5 trillion in the current fiscal, 138% higher than the budget estimate of Rs 1.05 trillion. The government reckons that the natural gas prices, which constitute

NYK launches new ammonia designs

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), MTI and Elomatic have completed the concept design phase of a new capesize bulk carrier and a very large crude oil tanker (VLCC) in a project that aims to build an LNG-fuelled vessel that can be efficiently converted to an ammonia-fuelled vessel. The three companies are positioning these new hybrids as

First direct shipment of Australian gas arrives in Europe

The ongoing redrawing of the seaborne energy trading map in the wake of the war between Russia and Ukraine is making for some extraordinarily long journeys. Woodside Energy Group announced today it has shipped an LNG cargo direct to Europe from Australia’s North West Shelf project for the first time. The 75,000 tonne cargo was

Rice University researchers developed a catalyst for hydrogen economy

Rice University researchers have engineered a key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy. Using only inexpensive raw materials, a team from Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment created a scalable catalyst that needs only the power of light to convert ammonia into clean-burning hydrogen