Latest Fuels & Lubricants – Page 71

  • Remontowa is to build three LNG-fuelled ferries for Canada
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    Poland’s Remontowa secures C$165 million dual-fuel ferry deal

    2014-07-08T10:44:00Z

    Poland’s Remontowa shipyard has obtained an order to supply three LNG-fuelled ferries to Canadian ferry operator British Columbia Ferry Services, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

  • Nikolay Katagarov: The domestic gas price in Russia is approximately three times less than the market price in Europe.
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    LNG strong contender for SOx emissions in the Russian market

    2014-07-07T16:28:00Z

    Nikolay A. Katagarov, a senior expert in the machinery department of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, discusses his favoured solution to SOx emissions with Wendy Laursen

  • Selecting a lubricant that offers optimum value is down to a vessel’s own unique operational conditions.
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    New fuels pose challenges for lubes and additives

    2014-07-07T16:28:00Z

    Low-sulphur fuels come with stability and lubricity challenges, some of which are the result of more effective refining processes which are supposed to benefit the low-sulphur fuel market, writes Wendy Laursen

  • Natural gas could power future drillships
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    “Ground-breaking” LNG concept

    2014-07-03T14:58:00Z

    ABS has entered into a joint development project (JDP) with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to develop what is thought will be the industry’s first LNG-fuelled drillship.

  • Han Fennema, CEO of Gasunie; Maarten Wetselaar, Shell’s EVP Integrated Gas; Eelco Hoekstra, CEO of Vopak; Allard Castelein, CEO of the port of Rotterdam; in front of the ‘Green Rhine’ LNG-powered tank barge
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    Shell supports LNG bunkering in Rotterdam

    2014-07-03T08:35:00Z

    Shell has announced that it is behind expansion plans for Rotterdam’s LNG terminal which will enable it to supply LNG in smaller quantities as transport fuel, including gas-fuelled ship bunkering.

  • GasLog CEO Paul Wogan
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    GasLog expands with new LNG carriers

    2014-06-26T17:19:00Z

    GasLog is expanding its fleet with two new 174,000m³ LNG carriers to be built by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).

  • The design of the LNG bunker barge incorporates GTT’s membrane Cargo Containment System
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    GTT signs LNG carrier contract

    2014-06-20T12:05:00Z

    French engineering and technology company Gaztransport and Technigaz, has signed an agreement for the design and construction of two LNG carriers to be built by Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding.

  • ABB will equip the first 16 LNG carriers for the Yamal project. Photo: Novatek
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    ABB wins LNG carrier order

    2014-06-17T12:24:00Z

    ABB is to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for the first 16 LNG carriers that will transport LNG from Siberia to Europe and Asia as part of the Yamal project.

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

    2014-06-16T13:44:00Z

    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

    2014-06-04T14:36:00Z

    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 agreement will focus on the movement of LNG over long distance and servicing local markets by LNG bunker/shuttle vessels
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    Americas LNG cooperation

    2014-06-03T17:37:00Z

    LNG America and Liquiline have signed an agreement to jointly develop commercial offerings for LNG marine fuel markets in the North American Pacific Northwest.

  • 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

    2014-05-22T16:57:00Z

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

  • Damen has received its tenth LNG carrier repair order from GDF SUEZ, and this one is French owned
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    Damen repair for LNG carrier

    2014-05-22T10:00:00Z

    Damen Shiprepair Brest (DSB) in France has received its tenth LNG carrier repair order from GDF SUEZ.

  • The company says the new vessels will offer efficient and environmentally-friendly option for transporting containers by sea
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    ‘Next generation’ short-sea ships ordered

    2014-05-12T16:13:00Z

    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.

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

    2014-05-12T09:00:00Z

    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.

  • 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

    2014-05-11T20:12:00Z

    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.

  • CUI Global’s GasPT2 data collection systems now have ABS approval
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    ABS approves simplified system

    2014-05-11T20:08:00Z

    US-based CUI Global''s GasPT2 technology has received ABS certification for marine and offshore use.

  • 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

    2014-04-29T10:16:00Z

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

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

    2014-04-28T13:06:00Z

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

  • A chief engineer records in-cylinder pressures while under load running on fuel oil emulsion.
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    Emulsion trial could spark new interest

    2014-03-25T09:49:00Z

    The idea of using emulsified fuel has been around for decades, and a recent trial has again demonstrated that efficiency gains are possible alongside the known emission reductions, writes Wendy Laursen