Alternative Fuels – Page 52

  • 'Eiger-Nordwand' is the first inland waterways vessel to be retrofitted with LNG engines. Photo: Rolf Heinrich, Köln
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    Inland vessel makes the switch

    2014-06-23T11:58:00Z

    The first inland waterway vessel to be retrofitted with pollution-reducing LNG engines, ‘Eiger-Nordwand’, has been launched as part of the EU-supported ‘LNG Masterplan Rhine-Main-Danube’ project.

  • Texas LNG's 100-acre site will have deepwater frontage to the Port of Brownsville shipping channel
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    Texas LNG makes progress

    2014-06-23T10:19:00Z

    Texas LNG LLC has received authorisation from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to export domestically-produced LNG to all existing, and any future, countries that have an FTA with the US.

  • The export facility will be built later this year at
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    Green light for US export project

    2014-06-23T09:57:00Z

    US-based Sempra Energy’s subsidiary, Cameron LNG, has received the go ahead from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC to site, construct and operate an LNG export facility.

  • The new Arctech icebreaker is being built for the Finnish Transport Agency
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    Linde LNG system for Finnish icebreaker

    2014-06-18T11:52:00Z

    Germany’s Linde Group is to build an LNG fuel gas system for a new icebreaker being built by Finland’s Arctech Helsinki Shipyard.

  • DNV GL will use its COSSMOS power management design computer platform and hull optimisation software to develop the vessel Photo: DNV/GL
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    LNG carrier concept project

    2014-06-06T10:42:00Z

    DNV GL is leading a new joint industry project to design a new next generation LNG carrier in conjunction with Gaztransport & Technigaz, Hyundai Heavy Industries and GasLog.

  • The storage tanks will be installed on Wison's FSRU
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    IHI wins LNG tank order from China

    2014-06-05T12:01:00Z

    IHI Corporation is to supply two self-supporting, prismatic shape, IMO type B (SPB) LNG tanks with a total capacity of 25,000m³ for China’s Wison Group.

  • Mobile LNG tank system developed by FSG for its new SeaRoad ro-ro contract
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    Oz gas-fuelled ro-ro order for FSG

    2014-06-04T16:26:00Z

    German shipbuilder Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has announced a contract with Australian shipping company SeaRoad for a 181m long ro-ro newbuild to be fuelled by LNG.

  • The tug will be capable of operating on both MDO and LNG. Photo: Drydocks World
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    UAE to build LNG-powered tug

    2014-05-23T11:28:00Z

    Drydocks World and Dubai Maritime City (DMC) and Wärtsilä are to build an LNG-powered tug as part of the UAE ‘Green Economy for Sustainable Development’ initiative.

  • DNV GL said that although the LNG market is growing, the development of international standardisation has lagged behind Photo: DNV/GL
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    Harmonising LNG bunkering

    2014-05-22T17:09:00Z

    DNV GL is launching a new Recommended Practice (RP) on LNG Bunkering in the Middle East & South Asia.

  • Three more Evergas LNG tankers will be powered by Wärtsilä 50DF engines
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    Repeat LNG package order for Wärtsilä

    2014-05-22T15:33:00Z

    Wärtsilä is to supply integrated LNG equipment and propulsion packages for three more LNG tankers for Danish operator Evergas, in an extension to a similar previous order placed in 2013.

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    LNG packages for German vessels

    2014-05-19T14:44:00Z

    India-based INOXCVA is to supply LNG storage tanks and install equipment in the tank connection space of LNG fuel gas packages for Germany’s TGE Marine.

  • Oman Dry Dock is to join with DSME subsidiary DSEC to offer LNG tanker repair facilities
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    Oman launches new LNG repair partnership

    2014-05-17T10:30:00Z

    Oman Drydock Company (ODC) and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) are joining forces to form a new partnership to target the LNG carrier repair market.

  • MHI’s Sayaendo LNG carrier design is unusual in claiming eco-credentials while retaining steam turbine propulsion
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    First LNG order for Japanese joint venture

    2014-05-16T10:30:00Z

    MI LNG, the joint venture company established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Imabari Shipbuilding, has received an order for an LNG carrier for NYK Line.

  • Steel cutting on the first of the project’s LNG carriers took place in April
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    Braemar oversees Nigerian LNG build

    2014-05-14T10:00:00Z

    Braemar Engineering has been appointed to act as shipping consultants to Bonny Gas Transport, subsidiary of Nigeria LNG (NLNG), and will oversee the building of six LNG carriers.

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    ‘Next generation’ short-sea ships ordered

    2014-05-12T10:45:00Z

    Finland’s Containerships Ltd Oy, GNS Shipping/Nordic Hamburg and ARKON Shipping have ordered two ‘next generation’ dual-fuel container ships for the European short-sea trade.

  • The PFLNG2 project will be located off Malaysia's coast. Photo: Eric Teoh
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    Air Products signs Malaysia agreement

    2014-05-08T16:01:00Z

    Norway’s Air Products is to provide its LNG technology, equipment and process license for Petronas’ second floating LNG project (PFLNG2), to be located off the coast of Malaysia.

  • Imabari will build the two new LNG carriers at its Saijo yard in 2017
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    Imabari Shipbuilding carriers for Spain

    2014-04-29T10:23:00Z

    Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding Co Ltd is to build two LNG carriers at its Saijo yard for Spanish shipping company, Elcano.

  • The ports are joining forces to introduce LNG to inland shipping on the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor. Photo: Claudio.Ar/Flickr
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    EU ports enter LNG joint venture

    2014-04-29T09:59:00Z

    The port authorities of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Mannheim, Strasbourg and Switzerland are joining forces to introduce LNG in the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor.

  • The ports are joining forces to introduce LNG to inland shipping on the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor. Photo: Claudio.Ar/Flickr
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    EU ports enter LNG joint venture

    2014-04-28T14:09:00Z

    The port authorities of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Mannheim, Strasbourg and Switzerland are joining force to introduce LNG in the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor.

  • LNG will be shipped from Fluxys terminal at the Port of Zeebrugge
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    Yamal LNG signs transhipment agreement

    2014-04-28T14:09:00Z

    Yamal LNG has signed an agreement with Belgian company Fluxys to co-operate on the transhipment of LNG from its terminal at the Port of Zeebrugge.