e-fuel developer ETFuels has announced the start of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for its Rattlesnake Gap project in West Texas, which is set to produce 125 ktpa (kilo-tonnes per annum) of e-methanol for the shipping and aviation markets. Once completed, the project would become the largest e-methanol plant in the United States. Production is expected to begin in 2030. Rattlesnake Gap ‘directly responds’ to growing demand for green fuels driven by FuelEU Maritime regulation and the introduction of e-SAF mandates under UK and EU law, ETFuels said in a statement published on 27 October. Asked whether the project was impacted […]

Negotiations at an intersessional working group focused on developing implementation guidelines for the IMO Net-Zero Framework were ‘constructive’, representatives of environmental NGOs who attended the talks have reported. Despite a majority vote to postpone the IMO Net-Zero Framework at an extraordinary MEPC session a week earlier, the intersessional working group (ISWG-GHG-20) meeting went ahead this week (20-24 October) to discuss implementation guidelines, including on GHG lifecycle assessments (LCA), rewards for zero or near-zero (ZNZ) fuels and energy sources, and on the IMO Net-Zero Fund which would administer the revenues raised by the GHG pricing mechanism. ‘Despite last week’s delay tactics […]

The Global Maritime Forum has reported that its members see an increasingly important role for the European Union (EU) and China, as well as developing regions like Africa, as ‘emerging centres of supply and demand for zero-emission fuels and champions that can reaffirm the support for the Net Zero Framework (NZF) that existed when it was agreed in April’. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (23 October), the Global Maritime Forum said that this was one of the key themes that emerged from its Annual Summit, which took place in Antwerp this week. The Global Maritime Forum said that […]