Methanol producer and supplier Proman has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Lithuanian Port of Klaipeda to support the implementation of future methanol bunkering in or near the port. Under the MoU, Proman will support the Lithuanian port in planning, designing and implementing fut
The Balgzand-Bacton Pipeline (BBL) between the Netherlands and the UK will make a one-week pause to gas flows in September due to planned maintenance. BBL Company, the owner of the 235-kilometer subsea gas interconnection, announced at the beginning of May that the planned maintenance is scheduled f
Port of Rotterdam has awarded a feasibility study contract to Proton Venture, an ammonia engineering company, for the scoping and conceptual design of an ammonia export terminal in Western Australia (WA). Via this future ammonia hub to be located in Oakajee, the Dutch port aims to import 3 million t
Jacobs, a technical professional services company, has completed the underground infrastructure engineering for the PacWave South site, the first full-scale wave energy test facility in the United States.
Norwegian shipping company Avance Gas has ordered two mid-sized 40,000 cubic metres LPG/ammonia carriers with dual fuel engines at China International Marine Containers(Group) Ltd. (CIMC). The two companies entered into a newbuilding contract worth $123 million on 7 June. The agreement for the two n
Newfoundland-based Port of Argentia and American renewable energy company Pattern Energy have entered into an agreement for the planned wind energy to ammonia project at Argentia. On 5 June, the Port of Argentia announced it had reached a binding agreement on commercial terms with Pattern Energy for
Hydrogen production technology with the direct seawater electrolysis method has been tested at Xonghua Bay offshore wind farm in Fujian, southeast China. According to reports by the Beijing-based state-run foreign-language news channel, CGTN, this world’s first test to produce hydrogen by in-situ di
Natural gas is still forecasted to play a crucial role and act as a trump card while the world embraces the race to net-zero.
State-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy has celebrated the steel cutting of the first of its new generation of chartered LNG carriers to be built at a South Korean shipyard as part of its LNG fleet expansion project. On 3 June, QatarEnergy said it joined the shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries and JP Mor
Worldwide investments in clean energy are projected to reach $1.74 trillion in 2023, a 7.6 percent increase compared to $1.617 trillion invested in green energy in 2022, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The investments in fossil fuels are also expected to rise,
Belgium’s Port of Antwerp-Bruges has witnessed its very first methanol bunkering on its journey to becoming a multi-fuel port. This first methanol bunkering operation took place on 1 June when 475 mT of methanol was bunkered from barge Tamariva to Proman Stena Marine at Sea-invest’s terminal. Proman
All twelve CO2 storage tanks for the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, a joint venture (JV) of energy majors Shell, Equinor and TotalEnergies, have been installed at the project’s CO2-receiving facilities in Øygarden, Norway. Northern Lights JV revealed the construction miles
Newfoundland and Labrador-based renewable energy company World Energy GH2 Inc. has acquired the Port of Stephenville, located on the West coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The port is a critical piece of infrastructure as World Energy GH2 works to advance green energy projects in Atlantic Canada which
The partners behind the Aphrodite Reservoir in Cyprus have submitted an updated plan for the development of the project to the country’s government, said to include a change to the fundamental project concept of the approved development and production plan. Chevron Cyprus, BG Cyprus, part of Shell,
