Hartek Solar has secured a contract from SJVN Green Energy to build a 22MW floating solar project in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Portugal is the latest country to accede to IMO’s Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships. The convention covers the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of ships, and preparation for ship recycling to facilitate safe and environmentally sound recyc
Marine construction and operations contractor Ocean Installer and energy technology company Baker Hughes have formalized an alliance to deliver an integrated subsea engineering solution said to provide efficiencies from project appraisal through to operations. The new global agreement is expected to
Green hydrogen production company Hy2gen has commissioned engineering and technology company Technip Energies to complete a pre-FEED study for its renewable hydrogen and renewable ammonia project, named Courant, located in Baie Comeau, Quebec, Canada. The pre-FEED phase for the project started at th
Dutch energy and commodities company Vitol has delivered the first LNG cargo to Elenger, one of the largest private energy companies in the eastern Baltic Sea region, via Finland’s new import terminal in the port of Inkoo. According to Vitol, the cargo was delivered on 2 April and it came from its p
McDermott’s Tareq Kawash has officially taken over the role of Group Chief Executive and Executive Director at Petrofac after Sami Iskander stepped down in order to pursue other interests. The oilfield services provider confirmed that the new group chief executive started the role as of 1 April and
J. Lauritzen, a Danish investment company focused on maritime industries, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Japanese shipbuilder Tsuneishi Shipbuilding for the construction of methanol dual-fuel bulk carriers. The LoI includes the construction of minimum two methanol dual-fuel 81,200 dwt Kams
Turkish Uzmar Shipyard has held a steel-cutting ceremony for Turkey’s first dual-fuel tugboat, being built for BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS), the state-owned crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company. The shipyard will build two Voith tractor-type propeller tugboats that
Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a global green energy company, has secured renewable power for its proposed Holmaneset green energy project by entering into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Statkraft, a supplier of renewable energy. Under the conditional agreement, Statkraft is exp
Singapore shipowner Consort Bunkers has signed a contract with China Merchants Industry Nanjing Jinling Shipyard for six 6,500-ton methanol fuel bunkering ships. The 6,500-ton methanol fueling ships have a total length of 103.88 meters, a molded width of 19.00 meters, and a design draft of 7.00 mete
UK and Ireland-focused oil and gas exploration, development, and production company Europa Oil & Gas (EOG) has appointed Alastair Stuart as Chief Operating Officer and an Executive Director of the company, effective immediately. Stuart has been a consultant at Europa Oil & Gas since 2012 and more re
The NeuConnect energy link that will connect Germany and the UK for the first time is a “key project” and highlights how closely the two countries are working together to make their economies climate-neutral, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said during the visit of UK’s King Charles III to
Norway’s H2Carrier and Sweden’s Trelleborg Gas Transfer have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on ship-to-ship ammonia transfer solutions. The two companies will collaborate in developing a safe, reliable, and efficient solution for side-by-side offloading of ammonia when opera
Alternative fuel ships have accounted for around 60% of new orders since the start of 2022 in GT, primarily driven by LNG dual-fuel vessel orders, and increasingly methanol, and now account for 5% of fleet GT and 47% of orderbook, data from Clarksons shows. Looking at the fleet profile, the shipbrok
