Egypt and India agree to build a green hydrogen factory

Egypt has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an Indian company to build a green hydrogen factory in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. According to the MoU, Indian ReNew Power Private Limited will build a factory to produce 20,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year, with investments worth $8 billion. Tags: Egypt, Hydrogen, India,

Pilbara Ports teams up with Yara Clean Ammonia for clean ammonia bunkering

Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) joins hands with Yara Clean Ammonia to facilitate the uptake of clean ammonia as a marine fuel in the Pilbara region in Western Australia. The deal will ensure safe ammonia bunker operations within PPA ports through collaborative safety analysis and the creation of transparent ammonia bunkering guidelines. A collaboration agreement signed

V.Group bags International Seaways contract to manage dual-fuel LNG VLCC

International Seaways has contracted V.Group to manage three of its dual-fuel very large crude carriers (VLCCs) currently under construction in South Korea. The LNG-fuelled VLCC trio, which is being built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), will join V.Group’s fleet management and will be employed on long-term charters with supermajor Shell. In addition to

NextDecade signs LNG sale agreement with ExxonMobil

US LNG project developer NextDecade has signed a 20-year sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with compatriot energy major ExxonMobil for the supply of LNG from NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG export project in Texas. Under the SPA, EMLAP will buy one million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG. The LNG will come from the first

Avenir LNG awards reliquefaction plant contract to Houlde

Avenir LNG has awarded a reliquefaction plant contract to Houlder for its 20,000-cbm LNG bunkering and supply vessel, Avenir Achievement. Houlder bagged the detailed design and engineering for the retrofit of an Air Liquide boil-off Gas (BOG) reliquefaction plant. This work follows the successful completion of basic design and engineering by Houlder in the first

US becomes top LNG exporter in the world

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US LNG exports rose by 12% in the first half of 2022 compared with the second half of 2021, and averaged 11.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) between January and June 2022 based on the data from CEDIGAZ. High demand in Europe, high natural gas prices,

ReNew Power looks to enter into development of African green hydrogen projects

ReNew Power Ltd is looking to foray into Africa by developing green hydrogen projects in Egypt, Morocco, and Oman. ReNew has announced several initiatives to expand its renewable energy business, including green hydrogen and energy storage. In April, it entered a joint venture agreement with state-run Indian Oil Corp. Ltd and engineering and construction major

Hydrogen fuel transport could become safe with new silicon-based powder

EPRO Advance Technology (EAT), a renewable energy company, has developed a revolutionary porous silicon material, known as Si+, which has the ability to generate ultra-pure hydrogen from a water source. It also acts as a solid-state hydrogen generating material – one that is compact, robust, and easily transportable – solving many of the issues that

Airbus joins Hy24 JV to invest in clean hydrogen

Airbus has joined the world’s largest clean hydrogen infrastructure investment fund, managed by Hy24 – a joint venture between Ardian, and FiveTHydrogen. The JV’s investment fund will provide financial capital to large-scale green hydrogen infrastructure projects globally. Airbus will scale up global hydrogen economy, and enter into zero-emission commercial aircraft by 2035. Joining this fund

UK launches world’s first hydrogen subsidy scheme

The UK government has officially opened the world’s first national low carbon subsidy scheme for hydrogen. The scheme is aimed at achieving a target of 1GW of clean hydrogen production by 2025 on the way to 10GW of low carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030. The UK government in 2020 announced a plan to develop 5GW