
Vienna-based international oil, gas, and chemicals company OMV plans to build a pilot plant at its Schwechat refinery to produce second-generation biofuels to reduce carbon emissions.

Chart Industries acquired Cryogenic Gas Technologies, a supplier of custom cryogenic processing systems and equipment, for $55 million.

Classification society RINA and the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) have signed a joint development project agreement to develop a ship design capable of being fuelled by either ammonia or methanol.

Singapore-based container shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) has conducted a biofuel trial on the Panamax boxship MOL Experience.

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD), part of Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) has received contracts from Oceanian shipping companies to build two LPG carriers and one petrochemical vessel.

The transition to low sulphur in fuel oil in 2020 saw only 55 cases of 0.50% compliant fuel being unavailable, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said describing the switch extremely smooth. The IMO gave the possibility for shipowners to be issued with a Fuel Oil Non Availability Report (

A division of Occidental Petroleum, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV), has delivered the world’s first shipment of carbon-neutral oil to India.

Italian offshore contractor Saipem has been awarded a FEED contract for the South African natural gas and helium producer Renergen’s Virginia gas project.

BW LPG, the world’s largest liquid petroleum gas shipping company, has made further steps forward in its LPG retrofit program.

The Nordic energy company Gasum has set new environmental targets to mitigate climate change.

Norway-based shipping firm Avance Gas Holding has ordered two 91,000 CBM, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dual-fuel very large gas carriers (VLGCs) in South Korea.

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected as one of two suppliers for AGL Energy’s 1,000 MW grid-scale energy storage plans.

MISC Berhad, a Malaysia-based provider of energy-related maritime solutions and services, has taken delivery of Seri Erlang, its second very large ethane carrier (VLEC) at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.

Plug Power and SK Group have unveiled plans to form a strategic partnership to accelerate hydrogen as an alternative energy source in Asian markets.