ClassNK has issued four Approvals in Principle (AiPs) for GTT’s following latest development projects in alternative fuels. The four alternative fuel development projects include – Concept of 12,500m3 LNG Dual-fuelled VLCC fitted with Mark III Flex system, Concept of LNG Fuel Tanks with NH3 ready notation that includes material compatibility with NH3, risk assessment and
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is keen to develop its existing refinery in West Bengal Haldia into petrochemicals complex for sustaining operations profitably. Running a standalone refinery is “not sustainable in terms of profitability” for which it has to be supplemented by a petrochemicals complex. IOC has sought land from Haldia Fertiliser Corporation (HFC), whose factory
Bontrup and buildings material company Aggregate Industries have worked with Sodaflexx, a UK-based scrubber manufacturer, to install Sodaflexx’s sodium-bicarbonate-based scrubber aboard bulk carrier Bontrup Amsterdam. Sodaflexx manufactures a dry powder exhaust gas cleaning system which allows owners to burn high sulphur fuel oil and treats the exhaust gas with sodium bicarbonate. The dry exhaust gas
Cummins has founded a new business unit called Accelera, which will be devoted entirely to the company’s zero- and near-zero emissions technologies. Citing the need to magnify its zero- and net-zero emissions efforts, Cummins has founded Accelera, a new company focused on green power technology and transportation. Cummins is known the world over for its
Cepsa will build a new second-generation biofuels plant in Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) with an investment of up to €1 billion. This new plant will produce both renewable diesel and SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) and will create up to 1600 jobs during its construction phase. The biofuels will be made from organic waste, such
A consortium of 23 organisations led by UK-based chemicals giant Ineos and Wintershall Dea, is behind Project Greensand which demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of CO2 storage from being captured at an Ineios Oxide site in Belgium, to being transported cross-border and permanently stored offshore. Hailed as a “big moment for Europe’s green
A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists. They say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere up to three times more efficiently than current methods. The warming gas can be transformed into bicarbonate of soda and stored safely and
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has reached a partnership with Vale International to install Norsepower Rotor Sails on an in-service Capesize bulk carrier. The 200,000t class bulk carrier will be retrofitted with two 35m x 5m rotor sails manufactured by Norsepower. The installation of both rotor sails is anticipated to be carried out in the first
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
Europe currently wastes land the size of Ireland on crops for biofuels which are an obstacle to tackling climate change and food security, a new study commissioned by Transport & Environment claims. The study says that this land could be used to feed 120 million people or, if given back to nature, could absorb twice