Morten Bo Christiansen, Vice President of Decarbonization for AP Moller Maersk shares his views on the challenges concerning uptake of ammonia and why methanol is the best solution for Maersk right now. He added that Maersk is evaluating over 30 projects aimed at developing green fuels.
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Stolt-Nielsen’s Head of Sustainability talks future fuels at SIBCON, Singapore, says a Stolt-Nielsen news report.
Discussions about future fuelsMost discussions about future fuels have largely revolved around their technical and performance credentials, but this is in fact only part of the challenge, said Bill Bryant, Stolt-Nielsen‘s Managing Director for APAC & MEA and Head of Sustainability.
Bryant was speaking at the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)’s conference (SIBCON) in...
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As the maritime industry explores scalable and viable options to replace fossil fuels, biodiesel […]
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As demand for marine fuel solutions increases, oil and shipping company Monjasa has acquired […]
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With an ambitious goal of creating a viable renewable fuel source for the transportation industry, Chevron has teamed up with Lone Star State researchers on the “diesel nut” project.
The partnership is a five-year, multimillion-dollar collaboration between Chevron and researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service focusing on creating a genetically engineered breed of low-input peanut lines that can produce higher yields of oil for use as a renewable biodiesel.
The fuel produced could be...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-researchers-new-breed-of-peanuts-may-boost-biodiesel
American food corporation Cargill has opened its first biodiesel plant that converts waste oils and fats into renewable fuel at the company’s Ghent facility in North Sea Port. The post Cargill opens…
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For the first time in Japan, shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and its affiliate Sanyo Kaiji Kabushiki Kaisha have begun test navigation using biodiesel in tugboats supplied via…
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Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), its unit MOL Chemical Tankers (MOLCT), Singapore-based commodity trading company Trafigura and its vessel fuel supply joint-venture company TFG…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/mol-trafigura-to-establish-biodiesel-fuel-supply-system/
All the estimates on a greater use of biofuels, including renewable diesel, are strong. The charts are all pointing up.
But there’s a big issue: Will there be adequate feedstocks so that this part of the energy transition — moving away from fossil fuels and toward a wide variety of less carbon-intensive fuels — can proceed?
That’s the key question energy consulting and advisory firm Turner Mason & Co. will tackle in an upcoming study.
It’s also a question that has a significant impact on...