Shell and Brazil’s Acu port have agreed to develop a green hydrogen generation pilot plant at the port’s facilities, located in the northern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, the pilot plant, which is expected to be ready in 2025, will have an...
https://splash247.com/shell-to-pilot-green-hydrogen-plant-in-brazils-acu-port/
Texas-headquartered floating regasification specialist Excelerate Energy has landed a ten-year contract with a subsidiary of Gasgrid Finland to charter out the 2010-built floating storage and regasification vessel (FSRU) . Under the deal with an undisclosed value, the 150,900 cu m FSRU, which can...
https://splash247.com/excelerate-energy-seals-fsru-charter-in-finland/
New York-listed wood chip producer Enviva has signed up for a sail-assisted bulk carrier to be ordered by Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), which will feature both MOL’s own hard sail Wind Challenger as well as rotor sails created by Anemoi Marine Technologies. MOL has tasked Oshima Shipbuilding with the...
https://splash247.com/enviva-signs-up-for-multi-sail-bulk-carrier-project-with-mol/
Petrobras and Equinor are evaluating the environmental feasibility of jointly developing an offshore wind farm in the Campos Basin, about 20 km from the coast of Brazil. The joint assessment is the result of a partnership agreement signed by the two companies in 2018. The Aracatu wind farm would be...
Chevron Corporation has sanctioned the Ballymore project in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico. The project, with a design capacity of 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day, will be developed as a three-mile subsea tieback to the existing Chevron-operated Blind Faith platform. Ballymore will be...
https://splash247.com/chevron-sanctions-ballymore-project-in-deepwater-us-gulf-of-mexico/
New York-based H2-Industries and German naval architects TECHNOLOG Services have joined forces to develop 3D designs for a concept ship that will collect plastic waste that currently blights the world’s oceans and then converts it into clean hydrogen, allowing surplus hydrogen to be shipped back to...
In 2016, a consortium of Chinese companies led by Landbridge Group purchased the Panama Colon Container Port (PCCP) and committed to invest $900m in a new terminal. However, after Panama elected a new president, Laurentino Cortizo, in 2019, the Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) was charged with...
The Biden administration has been courting Venezuela since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hoping to weaken its ties with Russia. Now the US has said it will ease sanctions to enable Venezuelan oil to flow to Europe to help those countries reduce their dependence on Russian oil. According to...
https://splash247.com/us-to-ease-sanctions-allow-venezuelan-oil-exports-to-europe/
Australian offshore engineering company Worley has been awarded a three-year engineering and procurement services contract by Shell to support five of its assets in the Gulf of Mexico. Worley said the contract will support Shell’s transition to a digitised and more efficient project delivery model...
https://splash247.com/worley-awarded-gulf-of-mexico-contract-by-shell/
Chinese state-owned COSCO Shipping Holdings is currently building a $3bn deepwater port in Chancay, 55 km north of Lima, the company’s first in South America. The complex will include an industrial and logistics park on its 1,100 hectares. In 2019, COSCO purchased 60% of the shares in Terminales...
https://splash247.com/cosco-investing-3bn-in-new-peruvian-port/