Essar Energy-owned Stanlow Terminals Limited (STL) announced that it will make investments over the next three years to develop the UK’s largest biofuels storage hub. The major investment is a key pillar in Stanlow Terminals’ strategic objective to become the UK’s largest bulk liquid storage and energy infrastructure solutions provider. It will deliver 300,000 cubic
India is set to become the third-largest market for ethanol in the world after the US and Brazil by 2026, a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) said, adding that the country has tripled ethanol demand to an estimated 3 billion litres between 2017 and 2021. Buoyed by India’s growing appetite, Asia is
German container liner Hapag-Lloyd will monitor the performances of a vessel it retrofitted to run on LNG, before deciding on any further conversions. The 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit Brussels Express was converted to run on LNG earlier this year in Shanghai’s Huarun Dadong shipyard. The containership was formerly known as the Sajir. Hapag-Lloyd told Argus
In a world where climate change is increasingly influenced by industrial emissions, decarbonizing the industrial sector becomes the immediate priority to phase out CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. Against this backdrop, retrofitting carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies to existing industrial infrastructure will become crucial to reaching netzero by 2050, according
Swiss engine designer WinGD, a leading developer of two-stroke low-speed gas and diesel engines used for propulsion power in merchant shipping, said that its engines will be able to run on methanol and ammonia from 2024 and 2025 respectively. WinGD’s multi-fuel solutions will be based on its well-established diesel-fueled X engines and dual-fuel X-DF engines.
Ethanol key factor in reducing sugarcane arrears, says Ravi Gupta, Shree Renuka Sugars Director India’s surplus sugar stock is likely to come down substantially to less than a million tonne (mt) in next four years from a high of 5.2 mt last year — thanks to the success of the ethanol blending programme with industries
Fuel-cell or battery-electric trucks to collect waste? Both types are increasingly finding their way into municipal waste disposal companies. When asked around in Freiburg and Munich where one waste management company is currently testing two fuel cell refuse collection vehicles, the other an all-electric roll-off tipper. Freiburg’s waste management company (ASF) has worked with various
Technology company ABB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have agreed to develop new solutions for digitally integrated all-electric mining operations to help the industry meet netzero emissions goals. The companies said the initiative’s purpose is to “show reliability, effectiveness and scalability” as mining operators “move towards all-electric and netzero-emissions.” ABB explained that its ABB Ability
Sugar’s strong price premium over ethanol, volatility in the Brazilian real/US dollar exchange rate, and unknown changes in the Petrobras ex-refinery gasoline price will remain key drivers for Center-South ethanol prices in 2022. Sugar premium over ethanol “Although the 2022-23 crop should witness a slightly higher sugar mix at 46.2 per cent compared to 45.2
In what may push the agenda to promote the adoption of hydrogen as an alternative fuel and help the country meet the carbon emission targets under the latest COP26 agreement, experts have found a way to reduce the overall cost of hydrogen production and transportation by more than half. Methanol, used as a clean fuel