Onboard carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (OCCUS) has emerged as one of the promising short-term measures shipping can implement for existing vessels to cut carbon emissions. According to a new report by Lloyd’s Register, OCCUS has a high technology readiness level, however, its investment re
The University of Malta has teamed up with its offshore energy storage spin-off FLASC to assess the potential of integrating renewable energy and energy storage solutions with floating breakwaters.
A very large crude carrier the Nautica, bought last month by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) from Euronav, as part of UNDP’s coordinated operation to remove oil from decaying FSO Safer, has set sail from Zhoushan, China heading for the Red Sea. The Nautica was in drydock in Zhoushan, China for r
300 terawatt hours (TWh) of green hydrogen could potentially be produced using electricity from offshore wind farms in the North Sea by 2050, and used not only to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors but also to boost the security of energy supply in Europe, a new study has shown. The “Specification of
Ximo Puig, the President of the Generalitat Valenciana (different self-government institutions under which the Spanish autonomous community of Valencia is politically organised), and Arturo Gonzalo, CEO of Spanish energy company Enagás, have signed a general protocol of action to promote the develop
INEOS and Wintershall Dea marked a major milestone and a world first on 8 March with the first-ever injection of CO2 in the North Sea as part of Project Greensand. Project Greensand includes capturing CO2 at an INEOS Oxide site in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, which is transported cross-border and stored in
The Port of Corpus Christi has been allocated $16.4 million through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of permanently storing captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial operati
FortisBC Holdings, a subsidiary of Fortis Inc., the North American regulated electric and gas utility company, and Snuneymuxw First Nation of the Coast Salish People, located in the centre of Coast Salish territory, have signed an agreement to collaborate on the Tilbury projects in Canada. According
A closer look at this week’s highlights of the latest energy transition-related news gives us an insight into what the future may hold for the sector. With the world’s energy security at the top of nations’ agendas, more and more countries around the world are preparing to shift to renewable energy
Ramping up storage of natural gas and hydrogen is seen as a solution to both the energy crisis and energy transition.
Energy infrastructure company Gasunie has partnered up with the storage operator STORAG Etzel for H2CAST, the hydrogen storage project in the Etzel caverns in the German state of Lower Saxony. Gasunie said that with H2CAST, which stands for H2 CAvern Storage Transition, the two companies, together w
German energy company Uniper has delivered Germany’s first full cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the new LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven.
An Italian company specialising in producing green hydrogen using renewable energy sources has applied for a maritime concession to build a 675 MW floating offshore wind farm in the Strait of Sicily.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a suite of technological processes which involve capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the gases discarded by industry and transporting and injecting it into geological formations. According to the Global Status of CCS 2022 report, as of September 2022, 196 commerci
