Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co., through its US-based subsidiary, has acquired an unconventional gas asset in Texas in line with its belief that natural gas and LNG will play an important role as a “pragmatic solution” for the energy transition. On 20 April, Mitsui said it completed the acquis
The LNG-powered dual-fuel bulk carrier Ubunty Community, built by Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, has been delivered. The vessel’s registered owner is Marshall Island-based Barney Shiptrade and the 190,000 dwt bulker is intended for Greek-based Maran Dry Management. Waigaoqiao Shi
Energy technology company Baker Hughes has secured an order to deliver two LM9000-driven compressor trains for Petronas’ nearshore LNG facility in Sabah, Malaysia. The order was revealed on 19 April and will be booked in the first quarter of 2023. It will see Baker Hughes provide two LM9000-powered
Technip Energies, an engineering and technology company, and Casale, a provider of technologies and integrated engineering solutions to produce fertilisers and other base chemicals, have entered a partnership to jointly license oxidative reforming-based technologies – auto thermal reforming (ATR) an
Keppel Infrastructure and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore. According to Keppel, this MoU follows the Singapore government’s launch of its Nati
Malaysian shipping company MISC Berhad (MISC) has entered into a $527 million sustainability-linked loan for the financing of six very large ethane carriers (VLECs). MISC said that the loan was signed through the company’s Singapore-based subsidiaries and that Standard Chartered acted as structuring
Following ZIM Sammy Ofer, two additional 15,000 TEU LNG-powered containerships that will join the chartered fleet of Israeli shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services under the agreement with Seaspan Corporation have been named in South Korea. According to ZIM’s social media update, the nami
South Korean shipping major HMM plans to conduct field tests of an onboard carbon capture system (OCCS) for containerships along with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and PANASIA in the second half of this year. OCCS is an advanced technology to capture CO2 from greenhouse gas emissions generated duri
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has invited bids to build and operate Power-to-X projects with a deadline for applications set to 1 September. Through the tender – the first of this kind in both Denmark and the world – the country has made available DKK 1.25 billion (approximately €167.7 million) in
Maritime fuel supplier Peninsula has welcomed into the fleet Hercules Sky, a modern oil chemical tanker. With a tank capacity of 9000cbm and a pump rate above 500cbm/hr, the 2021-built Hercules Sky is a modern barge that will strengthen Peninsula’s physical operations in the Gibraltar Strait. The Pa
French hydrogen producer Lhyfe, in partnership with AEC Occitanie – the regional agency for energy and climate – has started the construction of its third hydrogen production facility. Following the first two sites in Pays de la Loire (Bouin, Vendée) and in Brittany (Buléon, Morbihan), Lhyfe’s third
Dhamra LNG terminal in India has started with gas send-out into GAIL’s (India’s natural gas company) network, marking the commencement of continuous operations from the terminal. Adani Total Private Limited (ATPL), a 50:50 joint venture between Adani and TotalEnergies, said the send-out commenced on
EverLoNG ship-based carbon capture project is nearing an important milestone with the prototype ship-based carbon capture (SBCC) equipment almost ready to be installed on an LNG-powered LNG carrier. According to the project’s update, the SBCC equipment, being built in the Netherlands by Carbotreat,
Japanese shipping firm Asahi Tanker Co. has taken delivery of the world’s second pure battery tanker, named the Akari. The vessel completed its historic first bunkering operation in Kawasaki on April 14, supplying the MOL-operated iron ore career UNTA. The vessel was built by Imura Shipbuilding and
