ERI first to achieve carbon neutral status

ERI, the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition (ITAD) provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the US, announced that it is now 100% carbon neutral for all of its operational emissions. Through years of dedication towards reducing the company’s carbon footprint along with its partnership with TIME CO2 (and the CO2.com platform),

Deutsche Bahn (DB) achieves target volume for biofuel

Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German state rail operator, has announced that it’s using double the amount of biofuel in its diesel locomotives than it had predicted for this time – 17 million litres of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Smashing DB’s 2025 biofuel volume target so early was made possible thanks to its successful conversion of

Sovcomflot takes delivery of LNG-fuelled Aframax oil tanker

Sovcomflot Group said it has taken delivery of its new generation LNG-fuelled 112,600 dwt Okeansky Prospect Aframax oil tanker. The vessel construction at the Zvezda shipbuilding complex in the Russian Far East was financed by VEB.RF. The Okeansky Prospect is the lead ship in a series of two Aframax tankers ordered by SCF from Zvezda.

Topsoe selected as EPF contractor for FlagshipONE project

Ørsted has taken a final investment decision (FID) to build Europe’s largest production facility, FlagshipONE, for green fuel for the shipping industry. Topsoe will provide engineering, procurement and fabrication (EPF) for the project’s e-methanol technology. According to IEA’s Net Zero-scenario for 2050, the shipping industry needs to reduce its emissions by almost 15% from 2021

Vertimass along with its partners bags contract for conversion of SAF from CO2

Vertimass, with the mission to commercialize breakthrough sustainable fuels that reduce carbon emissions, announced that a consortium with whom it is partnering has been awarded approximately $1.35 million to pilot the conversion of green hydrogen and carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel. The funds were granted by the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme (EUDP)

HIF Global selects FEED team for e-fuels production

US project management company Bechtel Energy, Germany’s Siemens Energy AG and Denmark’s Topsoe A/S have been selected to carry out front-end engineering design (FEED) of HIF Global’s proposed e-fuels production facility in Matagorda County, Texas. The facility will produce carbon-neutral gasoline using as ingredients green hydrogen extracted with renewable power and around 2 million tonnes

GCMD to evaluate safety requirements for offloading CO2

Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) issued an invitation for proposals to evaluate the safety, technical and operational requirements for offloading CO2 captured on ships. GCMD is part of a seven-member consortium that aims to study how best to offload liquefied CO2 from capture systems on board vessels, based on the proposals submitted. GCMD expects

TotalEnergies to collaborate with Air France-KLM for SAF

TotalEnergies and Air France-KLM have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the delivery of more than 1 million m3/800 000 t of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by TotalEnergies to Air France-KLM Group airlines over a 10-year period, from 2023. This SAF will be produced by TotalEnergies at its biorefineries. It will be made available

Angelicoussis partners with RINA and SDARI for newcastlemax bulk carrier

Maran Dry Management, a unit of Greek owner Angelicoussis Shipping Group, has partnered with Italian class society RINA and Chinese designer Shanghai Ship Research and Design Institute (SDARI) to develop a newcastlemax bulk carrier that can run on hydrogen produced from LNG on board. The project for the 210,000 dwt vessel will be based on

EU Carbiow project to develop new biofuel with CO2

The Carbon Negative Biofuels from Organic Waste (Carbiow) project has received EU funding under the Horizon Europe initiative. Carbiow seeks to develop a dense, dry homogenous marine and aviation biofuel by carbonising gasification ash with oxygen and captured CO2 from cement plants. 12 consortium members from the Benelux, Germany, Nordic countries, Slovenia and Spain are