Latest Fuels & Lubricants – Page 27

  • Wayne Jones OBE, Chief Sales Officer, MAN Energy Solutions
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    Putting the market at the heart of MAN’s development programme

    2021-03-29T12:39:00Z

    Speaking just after the first demonstration of MAN Energy Solutions’ new low-speed, two-stroke Otto Cycle engine platform on 18 October, Wayne Jones OBE, Chief Sales Officer, discussed the ME-GA project and wider market trends.

  • The ‘FlexFueler 002’ is now bunkering LNG at the Port of Antwerp Photo: Titan LNG
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    LNG bunker vessel for Port of Antwerp

    2021-03-26T12:00:00Z

    The Port of Antwerp, Fluxys and Titan LNG are celebrating the christening of a new LNG bunker barge which will make LNG more widely available to vessels bunkering in the port.

  • SEA-LNG will display Platts’ LNG price assessments on its website Photo: S&P Global Platts
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    Team-up makes LNG prices more transparent

    2021-03-25T13:07:00Z

    S&P Global Platts and SEA-LNG, the coalition for promoting LNG as a marine fuel, have joined forces to improve the visibility of LNG fuel pricing.

  • The Advantage Tankers signing ceremony was held on 11 March 2021 (credit: MAN Energy Solutions)
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    ME-GI ENGINES FOR VLCC SERIES

    2021-03-24T12:03:00Z

    MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply ten dual-fuel ME-GI engines to a series of ten very large crude carriers. The order is the first for MAN ES’s low-speed, high-pressure LNG-fuelled engine from the VLCC segment.

  • BV has certified Torman’s new FRU Photo: Bureau Veritas
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    BV classification for new Torman LNG FRU

    2021-03-22T14:11:00Z

    Bureau Veritas has completed the classification of the Torman LNG floating regasification unit (FRU) at Tema port, Ghana in sheltered waters.

  • The ‘Gagarin Prospect’ is the first Aframax tanker in the USA to receive LNG via ship-to-ship bunkering Photo: Sovcomflot
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    First USA ship-to-ship Aframax LNG bunkering

    2021-03-19T14:29:00Z

    Sovcomflot and Shell have broken new ground with the completion of the first ever ship-to-ship LNG bunkering of an Aframax tanker in the USA.

  • Composite bearings and housings. (credit: Thordon Bearings)
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    Shipyard inertia preventing wider adoption of water-based lubrication

    2021-03-10T15:47:00Z

    Shipowners want to return to a water lubricated propulsion arrangement, but shipyards are preventing the wider take up of the environmentally sustainable solution, writes Patrik Wheater.

  • Shell aims to double its LNG network by the mid-2020s Photo: Shell
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    Shell expands LNG offering with new vessel

    2021-03-04T12:31:00Z

    Shell will add further flexibility to customers on key trade routes when it takes receipt of a new LNG bunkering supply vessel being constructed in Spain.

  • Biodegradable oil is mandatory in some parts of the world, such as the polar regions Photo: Bakker Sliedrecht
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    Biodegradable oil for submersible motors test

    2021-02-26T13:04:00Z

    Bakker Sliedrecht is carrying out tests to determine whether biodegradable oil can be used in the submersible motors that the company supplies for Van Oord.

  • 'MOL Experience'
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    ONE cuts its carbon footprint

    2021-02-16T14:31:00Z

    Container shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) has taken steps to cut its carbon footprint with a sustainable marine biofuel trial in collaboration with sustainable cargo initiative GoodShipping.

  • Høglund, A&R and HB Hunte Engineering are collaborating on a FGGS for LNG vessels Photo: Abeking & Rasmussen
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    Høglund signs German LNG FGSS deal

    2021-02-10T11:14:00Z

    Høglund has signed a contract with Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R) to supply the fuel gas supply system (FGSS) for three multipurpose LNG-fuelled vessels built for the German government for use on pollution control, emergency towing and firefighting.

  • Kongsberg Maritime will supply deck machinery for six LNGC Photo: Kongsberg Maritime
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    Kongsberg wins strategic Arctic LNGC contract

    2021-02-10T11:06:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime has won a significant and strategic new equipment contract with Russian LNG producer Novatek.

  • Earlier trials on a Maersk vessel secured an interim LONO from Wärtsilä, Jason Miles said (image: Quadrise)
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    MSC to trial emulsion-based MSAR fuel

    2021-02-09T15:57:00Z

    An emulsified fuel made from waste refinery products and water may make a leap from the lab to long-haul shipping, reports Paul Gunton

  • Wärtsilä's main components for inert gas and combined inert gas and gas combustion unit system Photo: Wärtsilä Gas Solutions
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    Wärtsilä and SAACKE team up on gas

    2021-02-05T12:05:00Z

    Wärtsilä has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SAACKE, the Germany-based global supplier of marine firing plants for seagoing vessels, offshore plants and LNG tankers.

  • GTT has received AiP from DNV GL Photo: GTT
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    DNV GL AiP for GTT NO96 system

    2021-02-03T13:24:00Z

    GTT has received Approval in Principle (AiP) for the NO96 containment system application as an LNG fuel tank for Ultra Large Container Vessels from DNV GL.

  • SAACKE's new GCU evo solution for the LNG carrier market
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    Saacke launches new GCU solution for LNG carrier market

    2021-02-03T12:42:00Z

    SAACKE Marine Systems is introducing a new Gas Combustion Unit to its product range. The new GCU offers a smaller footprint, reduced emissions and lower installation and maintenance costs, the company announced.

  • Six new LNG carrier vessels will be fitted with Wärtsilä 46DF dual-fuel engines, plus gas valve units and auxiliaries Photo: Wärtsilä Corporation
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    Wärtsilä to power Arctic LNG project

    2021-02-01T11:12:00Z

    Wärtsilä is to supply the dual-fuel engines for six new 172,500cbm LNG carrier vessels being built to serve the Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia’s Arctic waters.

  • The 23,500+-teu newbuildings are destined to join the 19,900teu Barzan (pictured) on the Asia-Europe route.
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    ME-GI engines for Hapag-Lloyd ULCS newbuilds

    2021-01-27T19:08:00Z

    Six ultra-large container ship newbuildings ordered by Hapag-Lloyd will be powered by MAN B&W G95ME-GI Mk10.5 main engines, the engine designer confirmed on Tuesday 26 January. The order for the series of 23,500+-teu container vessels from Korean shipyard, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) was announced by the liner-shipping company ...

  • The AiP for GTT's NO96 membrane containment system (pictured) extends the range of available solutions for ultra large container vessels.
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    BV AIP FOR GTT NO96 CONTAINMENT SYSTEM FOR ULCV

    2021-01-26T16:26:00Z

    GTT announced that it had received approval in principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas for the NO96 membrane containment system for LNG fuel tank applications on ultra large container vessels (ULCV) in mid-January.

  • Igor Tonkovidov, president and CEO of PAO Sovcomflot Photo: SCF Group
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    Fourth Atlanticmax LNG carrier for SCF

    2021-01-22T12:03:00Z

    PAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) and Total have concluded a time charter agreement for up to seven years for a newbuilding 174,000cbm LNG carrier, to be owned and operated by SCF, with options for up to two additional vessels.