EMEA News

Astron Energy Targets 2022 Restart for Cape Town Refinery

The Cape Town refinery has been offline since a fire broke out at the facility in July of last year.

4 May 2021

Titan Issues Tender for New LNG Bunkering Barge

Expected to enter service in 2023.

3 May 2021

BUNKER JOBS: Total Seeks LNG Bunkering Engineer

The firm is looking for candidates with an engineering degree and five to eight years of experience in LNG-related roles.

3 May 2021

Dan-Bunkering Hires Senior Bunker Trader From KPI OceanConnect

The new hire joined Dan-Bunkering as of the start of May.

3 May 2021

EU Sees All Options on Table on Shipping Carbon Policy

The commission is widely expected to announce the inclusion of shipping in the existing ETS in a legislative proposal next month.

3 May 2021

German Multi-Purpose Freighter Adds Rotor Sail

Eco-Flettner has added one of its rotor sail to Rörd Braren's ship the Annika Braren.

30 Apr 2021

Scandinavian Biogas to Supply Hurtigruten With Bio-LNG Bunkers

The company is set to invest about NOK 170 million ($20.7 million) in a bio-LNG plant in Skogn, in the north of Norway.

30 Apr 2021

UK Government Backs Hydrogen as a Marine Fuel

Asked in the UK parliament about support for the shipping's decarbonisation efforts on Thursday, Transport Minister Grant Shapps noted the government's support for hydrogen.

30 Apr 2021

ONE Completes Second Biofuel Bunker Trial

The blend used had a biofuel content three times higher than that used in the previous trial.

29 Apr 2021

Dual-fuel Engines Offer Opportunity for Methanol Use

But overall lack of bunkering infrastructure is a constraint on alt bunker fuel's development.

29 Apr 2021

Carbon Capture Firm Joins Liquid Wind Methanol Bunker Project

Carbon Clean will capture carbon dioxide emission from an industrial site near the Liquid Wind facility, supplying them for combination with hydrogen to create green methanol.

29 Apr 2021

Cape Town Refinery 'Extremely Unlikely' to Reopen

South African bunker supply capacity has already been significantly curtailed by the Engen and Astron shutdowns.

29 Apr 2021

Just 120 Ships Switching Fuels Could Kick-Start European Decarbonisation: T&E

A shift of 7% of EU bunker demand to using green ammonia or hydrogen by 2030 could be enough to prompt the decarbonisation of the rest of the industry by 2050.

28 Apr 2021

VPS Reports Drop in European VLSFO With Off-Specification Sulfur Levels

"It's fair to say that Europe has struggled more than other regions to provide compliant fuel at less than 0.50% sulfur."

28 Apr 2021

Explosion Off Yanbu Was Saudi Military Operation

The Saudi navy intercepted a 'bomb-laded unmanned surface vehicle' in the Red Sea at about 6:40 local time on Tuesday morning.

27 Apr 2021

Unconfirmed Reports of Saudi Tanker Attack Off Yanbu: Dryad Global

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation is aware of an incident in the area at about 6:30 am UTC on Tuesday.

27 Apr 2021

Wartsila Sees Potential in Carbon Capture

Increase in demand for carbon storage could prompt need for carbon transporters.

27 Apr 2021

Norway's First LNG Bunker Barge Commences Operations

The vessel completed its sea trials in four days.

26 Apr 2021

TFG Marine's Mikkel Jacobsen Joins New Commodity Trading Firm Montfort

Montfort is a new commodity trading firm with a particular focus on gasoline, distillates, and crude.

26 Apr 2021

LNG Bunkering Expansion is 'Next Step' For Russia's Gazprom Neft

The company's LNG bunker barge, the Dmitry Mendeleev, is due to undergo sea trials in the spring of 2021 before joining the company's fleet in the second half of this year.

26 Apr 2021