Clean fuels

Wärtsilä has carried out its first combustion trials using ammonia to test its use as a fuel.

Gasum has announced an agreement with Forchem for the supply of LBG to a tall oil biorefinery in Finland.

ClassNK has announced the appointment of a new President & CEO and executives.

Preem has selected Haldor Topsoe renewable fuels technology to produce diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery.

INA has awarded Axens a license agreement for its advanced bioethanol production project in Croatia.

The EIA has projected that US biofuel production will gently increase through 2050.

The API reports that refiners are enabling environmental progress in marine shipping.

Mark Horsley, Chief Executive Officer for Northern Gas Networks has given his backing to the UK Government’s £30 million investment in hydrogen demonstration projects contributing towards reaching Net Zero targets.

Burckhardt Compression is cooperating with GRZ Technologies, a spin-off of Laboratory of Materials for Renewable Energy from EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, to develop a new hydrogen compression technology.

Gazprom Neft has announced plans to increase production of IMO 2020-compliant low-sulfur marine fuels.

Essar Oil has announced that a low carbon hydrogen plant will be built at its Stanlow refinery and it will trial hydrogen fuelling following UK Government funding.

Delta Air Lines is committing US$1 billion over the next 10 years on its journey to mitigate all emissions from its global business going forward.

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has announced support for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) new Incentive Reservation System for the CPUC biomethane monetary incentive programme in California, US.

Trefoil has contracted Inatech to overhaul its management systems due to new customs rules following IMO 2020.

Maire Tecnimont Group’s NextChem, an Italian company focused on Energy Transition, has launched a new partnership with Kansas based Saola Energy to license technology for the production of renewable diesel.