Fuels & Lubricants

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ME Production subsidiary Marine Exhaust Technology has completed the basic stage of a scrubber retrofit onboard DFDS vessel ‘Ark Dania’, the first of two of the operator’s vessels to install ME scrubbers.

14th April 2015

DFDS opts for scrubber on ‘Ark Dania’

14th April 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Despite the lack of a global infrastructure and the huge fall in the cost of the alternative fuel oils, the number of projects for LNG-powered vessels, as well as bunkering and shore…

13th April 2015

LNG projects gain momentum

13th April 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Total Lubmarine has opened new laboratory facilities at its main research centre in France, already one of the largest lubricant research centres in Europe.

13th April 2015

Total Lubmarine research focus

13th April 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

British short sea shipper, Carisbrooke Shipping, says its first three months of operating in the North Sea Emission Control Area (ECA) have run without a hitch, which it puts down to careful…

25th March 2015

Carisbrooke takes fuel switching approach

25th March 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Spurred on by stricter sulphur regulations, Clipper has converted one HFO tank onboard six of its 30,000 dwt Trader-type bulk carriers to use greater volumes of low sulphur Marine Gas Oil (MGO)…

16th March 2015

Clipper carriers converted to be more sulphur friendly

16th March 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Careful management is needed to avoid significant harm to engines when using ECA-compliant low-sulphur fuels, according to a white paper published by Wilhelmsen Ships Service.

13th March 2015

WSS warning over low-sulphur fuels

13th March 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ExxonMobil has launched ExxonMobil Premium Advanced Fuel Marine ECA 200 (AFME 200), expanding its range of specialist fuels for use within Emission Control Areas (ECA).

13th March 2015

ExxonMobil expands range of ECA fuels

13th March 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

BIMCO says it has been advised by its members over the risk of paraffin wax forming in Low Sulphur Marine Gas Oil (LSMGO) because of current low temperatures.

23rd February 2015

Paraffin wax risk to operators

23rd February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Recent proposals by Russia’s leading oil suppliers to impose excise duty on marine distillate fuel could leave the country facing a shortage of low-sulphur marine fuel, Eugene Gerden reports.

20th February 2015

Russia considers MGO excise duty

20th February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is working on an IMO Tier III compliant scrubber system that it says will achieve lower equipment and operational costs than high-pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems.

19th February 2015

Mitsubishi makes progress on low-pressure EGR

19th February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Lower oil prices have minimised the cost impact of tighter sulphur caps in Europe and North America ECAs, according to data gathered by Drewry Maritime Research.

16th February 2015

Cheap oil offsets sulphur regulation costs

16th February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

The quality of marine fuel has risen in early 2015 according to early results revealed by the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA).

10th February 2015

Marine fuel shows improvement in 2015

10th February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

French ballast water treatment manufacturer BIO-UV has partnered with US-based Choice Ballast Solutions for engineering and installation of its BIO-SEA systems for US shipowners.

10th February 2015

BIO-UV partners with Choice Ballast Solutions

10th February 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Yara Marine Technologies, formerly Green Tech Marine, has won an order to supply six scrubber systems to LPG Carriers being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries at Hyundai Mipo.

12th January 2015

Yara Marine wins Hyundai scrubber contract

12th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Exhaust gas cleaning system provider Green Tech Marine has been renamed Yara Marine Technologies after its acquisition by Yara International last year.

7th January 2015

Green Tech renamed Yara Marine Technologies

7th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) will design and supply two open-loop scrubbing systems for the main engines on the Stena RoRo vessel Forerunner.

7th January 2015

CROE wins Stena scrubber contract

7th January 2015

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.

31st December 2014

Wool lube oil filters claimed to perform better than centrifuges

31st December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Alok Sharma, head of marine, Inatech, looks at how shipowners can demonstrate that they are in compliance with the new sulphur regulations

30th December 2014

Preparing for ECA 2015: how to prove compliance

30th December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ExxonMobil has introduced a new zinc-free lubricant intended for use with the latest medium speed and high speed marine engines, including those that comply with the US EPA Tier 4 emissions requirements.

5th December 2014

Lubes for EPA Tier 4 four-strokes

5th December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Meeting the challenge of the big squeeze that’s about to put the cost of operating in ECAs through the roof means, as Alexandros Chiotopoulos of DNV GL explains to Stevie Knight, “thinking…

1st December 2014

LNG and the cost effective slice and splice

1st December 2014