Fuels & Lubricants

Frédéric Meyer, Director Strategy & Projects for TotalEnergies Marine Fuels explains how the marine fuels business unit of TotalEnergies plans to leverage the company’s investments into cleaner, renewable energies to serve its…

Chevron Marine Lubricants will increase its presence in African ports after extending its joint venture with Akwa Group, the Moroccan oil and gas and lubricants supplier. Chevron has taken a joint stake…

CTI-Maritec, the fuel testing company, has opened an advanced fuel testing centre in Shanghai, China.

Total Lubmarine is in the final stages of developing a ‘next-generation’ digitalised lubrication analysis and supply management platform, Serge Dal Farra, Global Marketing Manager at Total Lubmarine told The Motorship in an…

An oil recovery system that continually removes contamination, including nano-sized particles, from lubrication oil is enabling “oil as a service” to landside industry, with marine applications mulled for the future.

United European Car Carriers (UECC), the Norway based company that operates a fleet of 16 pure truck and car carriers in intra-European trades, is upping its game to meet client expectations.

The shipping industry’s ambitions for reducing CO2 emission are likely to follow several technological pathways, so a more flexible and modular lubrication system is now available, says Dr Rathesan Ravendran, Technology and…

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.

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.

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.

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

Shell Marine has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide marine lubricants to cruise line operator Carnival Corporation’s global fleet of 89 ships.

As the marine industry races to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre is taking a key role. The 2800 m2 testing space – already equipped…

While the initial experience with burning VLSFO in four-stroke engines has been positive, the true test of the switchover could come at overhaul time.

Winterthur-based engine designer WinGDs Project Engineer Tribology Fuels & Lubricants discussed the companys list of validated cylinder oils in an interview with The Motorship in September.

Analysis from Lloyd’s Register’s Fuel Oil Bunker Analysis and Advisory Service (FOBAS) indicates that the dramatic increase in combustion related incidents between November 2019 and June 2020 can not be linked to…

MAN Energy Solutions after-sales division, PrimeServ Lab, has launched a fuel-stability analysis for IMO 2020-compliant low-sulphur fuels, covering their compatibility with other fuels. PrimeServ Lab’s standard, fuel-analysis programme now covers the p-value,…

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the Methanol Institute (MI) have produced a Bunkering Technical Reference on Methanol. The document is intended to help shipowners, ports and bunker suppliers understand processes and procedures for…

Results of a new survey show the transition to IMO 2020 compliant fuel oil (0.5% sulphur) has not been without problems.

Chevron Marine Lubricants has distilled its experiences of working with new fuels and lubricants into a new whitepaper, taking stock of the first six months of low-sulphur fuel operations for international shipping.