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

UK becoming a clean tech investment hub after COP26 boost in 2021

The UK is the third world’s biggest market for clean tech investment, claims a report by PWC. More climate tech start-ups have received venture capital funding in the UK than in any other European nation. COP26 boost Between 2013 and 2021, UK-based firms received investments exceeding £6.5bn – a figure bested globally by only China

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

Non-fossil fuels forecast to be 50% of China’s power capacity in 2022

Non-fossil fuel energy sources such as wind, nuclear, solar and hydropower may make up half of China’s total power generation capacity by the end of 2022, for the first time ever. China Electricity Council (CEC) has forecast that for the first time ever the country’s non-fossil energy sources make up half of China’s total power

Brazil cuts biodiesel mandate for rest of 2022

Brazilian has signed into law a measure to reduce the country’s mandatory biodiesel content in diesel to 10% for this year – a setback for biofuels and oilseeds producers. Brazil was supposed to adopt a 14% biofuel mix in diesel from March, but its National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) decided to keep a 10% content

India’s top steelmakers seek federal funds to cut carbon emissions

India’s top steelmakers have urged the government to provide federal funding and other economic assistance to help them meet targets for cutting carbon emissions, a leading industry body said. India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the United States, has pledged to achieve a net-zero carbon emission target by 2070 and

India may need to spend 11% of GDP to meet NetZero Goals: McKinsey

India may need to invest about 11% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next three decades as the world makes the transition to the goal of net- zero emissions by 2050, compared to the global average of about 7.5 per cent of GDP, according to consulting firm McKinsey. In a study released on Tuesday,

LNG takes off with ordering boom and new bunkering infrastructure

2021 was a banner year for the expansion of LNG as a marine fuel, according to industry association SEA-LNG. In its annual report, the group pointed to record-setting newbuild orders for dual-fuel LNG vessels and an expanding network of bunkering facilities as further evidence that this fuel option is a popular and growing choice for

NetZero by 2050 needs $9.2 trillion annual investment

The energy transition will be a very expensive and complicated endeavor in which different countries and regions will be unevenly impacted, analysts and forecasters have been saying for years.  The world cannot just flip the switch off on the current energy systems and start running on renewables, however noble, emission-reducing, and climate-protecting this sounds.  As

LSU chemists discover way to improve biofuel and biomaterial production

Globally, sustainable energy is in demand, and plant biomass has been a front-runner as a renewable resource. Until now, physical and chemical interactions in plant biomass had been a challenge in post-harvest processing, but LSU Department of Chemistry associate professor Tuo Wang and his research team of graduate students have discovered new information that can