MOL and Mitsui sign time charter agreement for LNG carrier

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has signed a time charter agreement with domestic trading firm Mitsui & Co for an LNG carrier. The 174,000m³ vessel is expected to be delivered in 2024. It will primarily be used to supply LNG for Mitsui & Co projects across the world. The vessel will be equipped with a

Incentives for green hydrogen likely in Union Budget

The government may provide for targeted fiscal incentives and allocation of funds for promotion of green hydrogen in the country in Union Budget 2022-23, which is slated to be unveiled in Parliament on Tuesday. The government launched National Hydrogen Mission in 2021. Earlier this month, Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh

GAIL starts India’s maiden project of blending hydrogen into natural gas system in Indore

State gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd on Monday said it has commenced India’s first-of-its-kind project of mixing hydrogen into the natural gas system in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The hydrogen blended natural gas will be supplied to Avantika Gas Ltd, one of GAIL’s joint venture with HPCL, for retailing of CNG to automobiles and piped natural

Making a splash with hydrogen internal combustion engines

The search for power solutions to decarbonize commercial vehicles and off-highway equipment took an exciting turn last summer with an announcement from Cummins. Our hydrogen-fueled engine development program is one of our latest steps to advance zero-carbon technology. Customers are taking notice and so are governments. Indeed, judging by some reactions, it’s almost as if

Mukesh Ambani’s $75 billion plan aims to make India a hydrogen hub

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s ambitious effort to pivot his conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd. toward green energy could transform India into a clean-hydrogen juggernaut. Ambani, Asia’s richest man, announced plans earlier this month to invest $75 billion in renewables infrastructure including generation plants, solar panels and electrolyzers. There is growing speculation that the strategy entails transforming all

Adani Total Gas wins 14 city gas licenses, IOC 8

A joint venture of billionaire Gautam Adani-run group’s gas arm and Total of France on Friday walked away with the most 14 licenses to retail CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the latest city gas bidding round, according to oil regulator PNGRB. Adani Total Gas Ltd won city gas rights in

Kawasaki delivers LPG-fuelled LPG carrier

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has announced the delivery of the 84,000 cubic-metre-capacity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-fuelled LPG carrier Crystal Trinity. Built for Kumai Navigation (PTE), the vessel is the 65th LPG carrier built by Kawasaki and the Japanese shipbuilder’s second 84,000 cbm-capacity LPG carrier equipped with a dual-fuel main engine. The main engine and generator

Getting hydrogen out of banana peels

As the world’s energy demands increase, so does our consumption of fossil fuels. The result is a massive rise in greenhouse gases emissions with severely adverse environmental effects. To address this, scientists have been searching for alternative, renewable sources of energy. A main candidate is hydrogen produced from organic waste, or “biomass”, of plants and

Hydrogen injects reality into gas-fired energy transition

This week’s world’s first shipment of liquid hydrogen from the port of Hastings in Victoria to Japan may prove as important to Australia’s future prosperity as the first shipment of iron ore to depart the Pilbara was in the 1960s. It marks an important milestone in the transition that Australia’s fossil fuel-based resource economy seeks

Hydrogen costs to fall over 95% by 2050

Investments to the tune of $10 trillion (Rs 744 lakh crore) in the hydrogen sector by 2050 will pull down the cost of the fuel and disrupt the energy sector, according to a new analysis. Hydrogen will be cheaper by 95 per cent by mid-century, according to the analyst group Rethink Energy. The impending hydrogen