Tag: methanol

Marubeni and MOL signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a joint study to build, operate, and utilize a methanol carrier equipped with a dual-fuel engine (methanol/very-low sulfur fuel oil).

A.P. Møller-Mærsk specifies world’s largest, dual-fuel, methanol engine, further empowering methanol as marine fuel within large-container-vessel segment.

Following news that Danish shipping giant Maersk plans to launch of the world’s first carbon-neutral container vessel in 2023, the company has now informed that a new e-methanol facility in Denmark will produce the e-methanol for the vessel. 

Global Energy Group, the owner of the Nigg Oil Terminal near Invergordon, Scotland, has entered into an agreement with Swiss-based integrated energy company, Proman to develop a renewable power to methanol plant utilizing local sources of captured CO2 at the terminal, setting the ground for a lower-carbon future in the country. 

MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply the world’s first, low-speed, dual-fuel engine to run on methanol within the container segment.

The Methanol Institute (MI) has welcomed MSC Group and Oldendorff Carriers as the association’s newest members.

The Port of Amsterdam will be the location for the new biofuel plant Advanced Methanol Amsterdam (AMA) of GIDARA Energy.

A.P. Moller - Maersk and Hyundai Mipo Dockyards agreed to build a feeder vessel with a dual engine technology, enabling it to sail on either methanol or traditional very low Sulphur fuel.

Six years after the 'Stena Germanica' became the world’s first methanol-powered RoPax ferry, Stena Line refueled the vessel with methanol recycled from residual steel gases, in a world's first. 

Project Air has now been allocated approximately EUR 30 million by the Swedish Energy Agency, while is now applying for EU Innovation Fund to realize the project.