2021 ended on a positive note for cryogenic equipment manufacturer Chart Industries which celebrated four hydrogen and small-scale LNG liquefaction orders totalling over $120m. Within the four orders was a 15-tonnes-per-day hydrogen liquefier to be built in North America, marking the company’s fourth hydrogen/helium liquefaction order for last year. Further to that 60,000 tonne bioLNG
The expert appraisal committee of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) will consider a dozen applications on January 6-7 from companies to set up grain-based ethanol distillery units across India. The interest to set up fresh units for ethanol production comes at a time when the government is going all out to
There cannot be many people left in the shipping sector unaware that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set a target of reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions in shipping by at least 40% by 2030 and pursuing a 70% reduction by 2050. As a key means of achieving this, the IMO, through the Marine Environment
The German government has said that it considers nuclear energy dangerous and objects to European Union proposals that would let the technology remain part of the bloc’s plans for a climate-friendly future. Germany is on course to switch off its remaining three nuclear power plants at the end of this year and phase out coal
As the price gap between low-sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) and heavy fuel oil (HFO) widens, almost 30% of the global containership fleet capacity is now equipped with scrubber technology, according to an Alphaliner survey. The consultant said the number of container vessels fitted with scrubbers increased by 150 last year, to 850 ships for 7.52m
As many as one lakh over-aged diesel vehicles have been de-registered in Delhi, said Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot. Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gehlot informed today that so far about one lakh such diesel vehicles have been de-registered, which are more than 10-year-old. Apart from this, petrol vehicles older than 15 years are also being
The government is planning to draw up an energy transition roadmap for the oil and gas sector that could prove to be a key step on India’s path to net-zero emissions by 2070. The oil ministry has set up the Energy Transition Advisory Committee headed by former petroleum secretary Tarun Kapoor, who demitted office in
China more than halved the volume of export quotas for refined fuel, predominantly gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, under the first allotment for 2022, while raising the allowances for low-sulphur fuel oil by 30%, industry sources said on Tuesday. The deep cuts to refined fuel, largely expected by the market, was in line with the
South Korea’s government is being criticized for including natural gas in a category of activities that it deems will help cut emissions. Liquefied natural gas was included in a taxonomy to accelerate green goals released by the Environment Ministry on Dec. 30, while nuclear energy was left out. LNG is in the transition section, so
Following a year in which the European ethanol market experienced extreme volatility caused by lockdown restrictions, 2022 is expected to offer relatively more stability in a post-lockdown environment, supported by European biofuel mandates. While S&P Global Platts Analytics forecasts a global fuel grade ethanol surplus of 1.667 billion liters in 2022 following an estimated deficit