China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) has awarded 16 billion yuan ($2.42 billion) worth of contracts to build 12 liquefied natural gas tankers. China is the world’s largest buyer of the super-chilled gas, while CNOOC is the country’s largest importer of the fuel and among the state majors leading a drive to expand their LNG
As an enabler in the marine industry’s transition to green methanol as fuel, Alfa Laval is pleased to become a member of the Methanol Institute. Founded in 1989, the Methanol Institute serves as the global trade association for the methanol industry, representing the world’s leading methanol producers, distributors and technology companies. The Methanol Institute works
Assago Industries Pvt. Ltd. chairman Chander Prakash Gurnani and MD and CEO Ashish Gurnani met APIIC Chairman Mettu Govinda Reddy and submitted an application for allotment of 20.70 acres in Gummaladoddi industrial park in East Godavari district at $0.091 million against the present offer price of $0.18 million for setting up a bio-ethanol manufacturing plant
Researchers at Stockholm University have for the first time been able to study the surface of a copper-zinc catalyst when carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol. The results are published in the scientific journal Science. A better knowledge of the catalytic process and the possibility of finding even more efficient materials opens the door for
During the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to Germany, India and Germany have signed a pact on Green Hydrogen. India’s Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy, RK Singh and German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Change, Robert Habeck signed the joint declaration virtually whereby the two countries intend to form
In Oman, H2-Industries and Public Establishment For Industrial Estates – Madayan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a waste-to-hydrogen plant in conjunction with PV solar power plants with base-load capacity in the Sultanate of Oman. The proposed $1.4 billion facility will be built on a 200,000m2 coastal site. The facility will initially
South Korea’s SK Gas Trading will purchase 0.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG from Energy Transfer’s Lake Charles LNG export facility in the US under a newly inked agreement. Unveiling details of the agreement on the duo said the deal has been agreed for a term of 18 years, with the first deliveries
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is launching the nation’s most comprehensive hydrogen study and demonstration facility in the US. The initiative, called Hydrogen to Infinity, will examine the potential of the zero-carbon fuel hydrogen as a renewable energy source for not only PG&E customers but the entire natural gas industry. The centerpiece of the
Air Products, Schenk Tanktransport and TNO are collaborating on the Clean Hydrogen and Road Transport Project (CH2aRT), focused on developing heavy-duty hydrogen trucks and a public hydrogen refueling station. Subsidized by the Demonstration Scheme for Climate Technologies and Innovations in Transport of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the project will create the
The latest figures from DNV’s Alternative Fuels Insight (AIF) platform show an increased take-up of LNG-fuelled newbuilding contracts over the first four months of this year, compared with the corresponding period of 2021. Large ships to be powered by the fuel drove orders over the first four months to a total of 121, according to