India to export green energy to Singapore from 2025

India will for the first-time export green energy from 2025, with the first shipments going to a Singapore power plant under an MoU signed by an India-based dispatchable renewables company and Singapore’s energy business. The MoU to explore opportunities in green hydrogen potential in India will see Greenko group and Singapore’s Keppel Infrastructure working towards

Singapore sets new pathway to accelerate netzero transition

Singapore has set a new pathway to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions with hydrogen seen as a major energy source that could supply up to half of the country’s power needs by 2050. The city-state has tightened its national climate target and plans to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and peak its

MPA frames provisions for standard national quality marine biofuels

Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) has developed a provisional national quality standard for marine biofuels, as well as a framework laying down conditions for biofuel supply for licensed bunker fuel suppliers. This standard is necessary and timely given that all marine fuels supplied in Singapore need to meet International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 8217

Fratelli Cosulich selects shipyard for its first ammonia bunker vessel

Fratelli CosulichFratelli Cosulich Bunkers Singapore has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co (CIMC SOE), a subsidiary of CIMC Enric Holdings, for the construction of an ammonia bunker tanker. The deal comes almost a year after the Italian owner teamed up with compatriot classification society RINA and Singapore’s ship

Shift Clean Energy and STADT to work jointly to electrify shipping

Canadian battery producer Shift Clean Energy (Shift) has joined forces with Norwegian propulsion system developer STADT in a bid to electrify global shipping. Shift is a supplier of clean energy solutions to the marine market and beyond and is responsible for some of the first electrified vessels in the market, including the first electric ferry

Keppel to develop hydrogen-ready power plant in Singapore

Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Limited, through its wholly owned subsidiary Keppel Energy, has reached final investment decision (FID) to develop a 600MW state-of-the-art, advanced combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to a consortium comprising Mitsubishi Power Asia Pacific and Jurong Engineering for the construction of the

Jurong Port partners with Mitsubishi and JERA for ammonia bunkering terminal

Singapore’s Jurong Port has partnered up with subsidiaries of Japan’s multinational engineering firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and power generation major JERA to jointly explore establishing a 100% ammonia direct combustion power plant and encourage ammonia demand to be ready for ammonia bunkering in the future. Jurong Port and MHI’s Asia Pacific unit in August 2021

PaxOcean to develop ammonia bunkering vessel

PaxOcean Engineering has reached an agreement with Hong Lam Marine and Bureau Veritas to jointly develop an ammonia bunker vessel design. There are a host of ongoing initiatives in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering hub, to develop ammonia fuel lines for shipping with many owners now actively studying making the possibility of making their first

Biofuel introduced in Singapore with NYK’s bulker

Singapore biofuel introduction NYK’s bulker Frontier Explorer was the first to receive biofuel from the new supply arrangement. GoodFuels in partnership with ITOCHU reports they have launched operations in Singapore just three months after forming a partnership to service the market. The delivery, which was the first to be managed under GoodFuels’ partnership with ITOCHU

MPA suspends bunkering licence of Glencore

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has temporarily suspended Glencore’s bunker licence for two months after a fuel contamination probe. The MPA said the suspension will take effect on August 18, adding that it found no evidence that Glencore or PetroChina had intentionally contaminated the high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO). MPA’s investigation found that