Yara operates the world’s largest global ammonia network, including a world scale ammonia production facility in the Pilbara, Western Australia. In an effort to meet the growing market for green, zero carbon ammonia, Yara is collaborating with Engie to build a green ammonia plant adjacent to its existing fertiliser plant in the Pilbara. Stage 1
According to news reports the Indian the government has approved soft loans for another 61 ethanol facilities to help it achieve its 20% ethanol blending mandate by 2025. The new facilities will produce 2.57 billion liters of ethanol production capacity, of which 1.86 billion liters will use grain as feedstock. All of the approved projects
DNV will be responsible for new building supervision and classification of Northern Xplorer (NX)’s inaugural vessel scheduled for delivery by 2026, as well as collaborating with Norwegian flag and technology providers on the enhancement of rules and standards for safe operation of hydrogen-powered passenger ships. DNV will be engaged during construction and commissioning to verify
Royal Caribbean Group has collaborated with World Fuel Services to sail its Navigator of the Seas ship using renewable diesel as part of a trial. With this move, the group is claimed to become the first major cruise company to sail a cruise vessel out of a US port using renewable diesel for at least
Pacific Basin Shipping, a Hong-Kong-headquartered dry bulk shipowner, said it sees methanol as its best option as it pursues commercially viable zero-emissions vessels. In May 2022, the company entered into a memorandum of understanding with Nihon Shipyard Co., Ltd and Mitsui & Co., Ltd to cooperate on the development of zero-emission vessels and potential investment
Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has inked a new multi-year contract to charter an LNG carrier newbuild to an unnamed energy major. The 174,000 cu m vessel, booked for construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea is expected to deliver in 2026. The ship will feature the latest ME-GA
India and France have adopted the “Indo-French Roadmap on the Development of Green Hydrogen” to work in a number of areas, including industrial partnerships on energy and for greater knowledge sharing and skill development. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships of France, and R.K. Singh, Minister of Power, New and
A ‘cutting-edge’ carbon dioxide (CO2)-to-methanol plant has begun production in Anyang, Henan Province, China, becoming the world’s first commercial scale facility of its kind to produce methanol from captured waste CO2 and hydrogen gases. Taking advantage of Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) technology developed by Carbon Recycling International (CRI), the facility will be capable of capturing 160,000 tonnes
Stellantis, announced the mass production of Peugeot, Citroën and Opel light commercial vehicles in a hydrogen-powered version equipped with a fuel cell. These hydrogen-powered vehicles will be assembled on the site’s multi-energy line, which already produces the electric and combustion engine versions of the “K-Zero” daily. BharatBenz expands network, inaugurates 300th touchpoint Using a reinforced
Samskip has signed a new agreement with GoodFuels, committing the Samskip container ships Endeavour, Innovator, Hoffell and Skatafell to run on marine grade bio-residual fuels until the end of 2022. GoodFuels MDF1-100 biofuel is formulated entirely from sustainable waste streams from the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive list. Initially using a biofuel blend which achieved a