Clean fuels

NiQuan Energy’s gas to liquids (GTL) plant at Pointe-à-Pierre has been opened by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley.

Industry leaders have signed an MOU with the aim to establish a comprehensive and competitive supply chain for the provision of green ammonia ship-to-ship bunkering at the Port of Singapore.

Alfa Laval is to start testing two new types of marine fuels in its Test & Training Centre in Denmark to support the sustainable shipping transition.

Scientific Aviation has announced the launch of Project Falcon, a 6-month joint industry partner study that aims to determine the best way to deploy continuous methane monitoring technology.

Gevo has selected technology from Axens for its Net-Zero 1 project in South Dakota for renewable gasoline and sustainable aviation fuel.

Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, a subsidiary of Lukoil, will use a range of Honeywell UOP process technologies at its Kstovo refinery to produce cleaner-burning high-octane fuels.

Gary Bennington, Magma Catalysts, and Tom Ventham, Unicat B.V. and G.W. Aru, LLC, explore the development of a new steam methane reforming technology for the future hydrogen economy.

Haldor Topsoe and Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller centre for zero carbon shipping have formalised their collaboration by signing a partnership agreement.

For the first time in Belgium, hydrogen will be used in a commercial scale cogeneration plant designed to generate electricity and heat from natural gas.

The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers recently released its first sustainability report.

The Vivergo Fuels site in Hull, UK, is to re-open following an announcement by the Department for Transport that E10 petrol will be introduced at pumps in the UK from September.

A.P. Moller - Maersk will operate the world’s first carbon neutral liner vessel by 2023 – seven years ahead of schedule.

The certified kerosene/jet fuel can be used as a direct replacement for the fossil-fuel equivalent, and reduces CO2 emissions by a minimum of 75% in comparison.

Subject to a final investment decision, upon operation the biorefinery will produce 200 000 tpy of renewable diesel from advanced bio-feedstocks.

Shell has set out its strategy to accelerate its transformation into a provider of net-zero emissions energy products and services.