German energy company Uniper has submitted its environmental permit application for the planned NorthStarH2 project to the Land and Environment Court in Östersund, Sweden. As previously reported by ship.energy, the facility is planned to produce over 100,000 tonnes of e-methanol annually. ‘NorthStarH2 is an important part of Uniper’s efforts to develop renewable fuels for sectors that are difficult to decarbonise,’ Johan Svenningsson, CEO of Uniper Sweden, said in a statement issued yesterday (9 November). ‘Shipping, aviation and industry need scalable alternatives to fossil fuels. With the environmental permit application, we are taking another important step towards developing such an alternative […]

Transition Industries has chosen Technip Energies as its project management consultancy (PMC) partner for the Pacifico Mexinol methanol production plant which is being built in Sinaloa, Mexico. When fully operational, the facility is expected to produce around 350,000 metric tonnes a year of renewable fuel of non-biological origin (RFNBO) methanol and 1.8 million metric tonnes of ultra-low carbon methanol from natural gas with carbon capture. In a statement issued today (10 Novemberf), Diego Martinez, Transition Industries Chief Operating Officer, commented: ‘We are pleased that Technip Energies has joined the project team and will bring their global project management expertise to […]

Finland’s Auramarine has announced it has signed an agreement with Spain-based Astilleros Gondán S.A. (Gondan Shipbuilders) to supply a full set of methanol fuel supply systems for two new hydrographic research vessels. Gondán Shipbuilders is building the vessels, Wega and Deneb, in Spain for Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), the federal agency responsible for maritime safety and nautical cartography in Germany. The scope of the agreement includes integrated control and monitoring systems and an emergency shutdown system to ensure safe and reliable operation, Auramarine said in a statement sent to ship.energy this morning (10 November). Auramarine will design each system […]