Blue Water Trade Winds extends fuel optimization partnership with STASCO

STASCO has been using Blue Water’s BOSS voyage planning application, which can improve fuel efficiency by between 4-6% and therefore help to curb carbon emissions, for its Crude and Products Time Charter Fleet for the past five years.

Shell stops exploring biofuel project in Singapore

Shell has confirmed that it has stopped exploring a biofuels unit and a Group II base oil plant in Singapore. Although Shell will no longer pursue these particular projects, the company noted that it will maintain a presence in the region. In late 2021, Shell announced that it was studying a project aimed at producing

Shell meets netzero climate targets

Shell has published its Energy Transition Progress Report 2022, which shows it has again met its climate targets as part of its energy transition strategy. By the end of 2022, the net carbon intensity of the energy products sold by Shell had also fallen by 3.8%, compared with 2016. Our analysis, using data from the

NYK, FueLNG JV completed first bunkering of LNG-fueled PCTC

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and Shell Eastern Petroleum, have completed the first bunkering of an LNG-fueled pure car and truck carrier (PCTC) in Singapore. NYK’s Jasmine Leader, one of the largest PCTCs in the world, successfully completed her LNG bunkering with FueLNG Bellina on

Shell and Equinor to build major Tanzania LNG project

Shell, Equinor and Tanzania’s government have made a major breakthrough on plans to build a $30 billion liquefied natural gas project in the East African country. The huge project aims to pipe some 40 trillion cubic feet of gas held in deepwater blocks 1, 2 and 4 to a 10 million tonnes per annum LNG

Wärtsilä and Shell to work on methane slip project

Wärtsilä is part of a consortium that has secured European Union funding to develop solutions minimizing methane slip from marine engines. The project, called Green Ray, will develop on-engine technologies for low-pressure dual-fuel engines – both 2- and 4-stroke – as well as a novel aftertreatment concept. These solutions will be advanced to a high

Shell, Hapag-Lloyd collaborate on marine fuel decarbonisation

Shell Western LNG B.V (Shell) and Hapag-Lloyd today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Hapag-Lloyd’s ultra large dual-fuel container vessels of 23,500+ twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Bunkering for these twelve new vessels is expected to commence during the second half of 2023 and LNG will

Shell and S&W JV to develop and produce sustainable biofuel feedstocks

Equilon Enterprises LLC and S&W Seed Company, a global agricultural company announced the execution of an agreement to establish a joint venture for the purpose of developing novel plant genetics for oil seed cover crops as feedstocks for biofuel production. The JV company, named Vision Bioenergy Oilseeds LLC, will be jointly owned by Shell and

Houlder collaborates with Shell for hydrogen gas carrier

Houlder, a UK design and engineering consultancy, has conducted a fuel and propulsion feasibility study and concept structural design work on a 20,000-m3 liquid hydrogen carrier for oil major Shell’s International Trading and Shipping Co. The company said it used computational fluid dynamics analysis to verify and optimise its vessel concept design. Houlder recently acquired

Shell, Eneco win bid to develop offshore wind power

Shell and Eneco have won the tender to build an offshore wind farm at Hollandse Kust (west) lot VI. The project will have an installed capacity of approximately 760 MW and will be located approximately 53 kilometres off the Dutch coast from the town of IJmuiden. The new wind farm will be delivered through a