IOC drops plans for green hydrogen unit

The company says setting up a green hydrogen unit at Panipat is more economical. “At present, IOC is setting up a 7 KTA green hydrogen plant and associated facilities in Panipat, and there is no plan to set up such facilities in Mathura,” it said. This marks a departure from the oil refiner’s original plan.

J. Lauritzen orders methanol dual-fuel kamsarmax bulk carriers

Denmark’s J. Lauritzen has signed a letter of intent with Tsuneishi Shipbuilding for the construction of at least two methanol dual-fuel kamsarmax bulk carriers. The 81,200 dwt vessels, capable of running on green methanol and biodiesel, will be among the very first zero-emission capable bulkers in the world, J. Lauritzen said. The units will be

TotalEnergies and Adani ready to start LNG import terminal

A joint venture between TotalEnergies and India’s Adani group has been developing the 5 million tpa facility A newly-built liquefied natural gas import facility at Dhamra port near India’s eastern coast has received its first cargo, with joint-venture partners Adani group and French giant TotalEnergies expected to commission the facility within weeks. The traction comes

India keeps domestic gas prices on hold

India will provisionally keep the price of locally produced gas from old fields at $8.57 per million metric British thermal units (mmBtu), the government, while it considers a potential change to the pricing formula. Under the existing formula, the price was due to go up for April-September, but to ensure fair prices for consumers and

Engineers India secures multiple orders

Engineers India (EIL) has secured orders worth Rs 48.82 crore across various segments of its portfolio. The contracts are for providing project management consultancy (PMC) services for third jetty at Dahej LNG Terminal for Petronet LNG, and carrying out detailed engineering work of CDU-1 revamp for Nayara Energy. Other assignments include study of revamp options

MF Hydra sails on zero-emission liquid hydrogen

MF Hydra is put into operation running on zero-emission hydrogen, this is groundbreaking in several ways. In addition to the major technology development, a great deal of work has also been done to develop rules and regulations to enable Norwegian passenger ships to run on hydrogen. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) is proud to

Green hydrogen uses hyped says expert

A UK-based hydrogen expert says the goal of using green hydrogen as a way of “greening” up long distance trucking makes no sense and is “completely wrong”. The potential uses of green hydrogen have been hyped up by many governments and aspiring developers, and it is considered a non-starter for passenger vehicles. But Cambridge professor

Samsung Heavy to build two new LNG carriers

Samsung Heavy Industries has secured a new order to build two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. Samsung Heavy will build the LNG carriers for an unidentified owner in Asia-Pacific for 674.5 billion won ($517 million) or about $258.5 million per vessel. This is one of the highest prices for a single LNG carrier with a

LNG terminal at Dhamra receives first shipment

The first shipment of liquefied natural gas was received by the facility from the Qatari ship ‘Milaha Ras Laffan’ The new LNG import facility at Dhamra, situated on the eastern coast of India, has been launched by Adani Group and TotalEnergies. The first shipment of liquefied natural gas was received by the facility from the

Swansea, Grenoble experts team up to create green hydrogen

Swansea and Grenoble experts have teamed up to create a realistic method for producing green hydrogen using sustainable catalysts. The experts now anticipate that their study will be a significant step in making green hydrogen production more simple, cheap, and scalable. The group has now developed engineered solvents that allow hydrogenases to act in air.