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AUGUST 4, 2023

Yanmar maritime hydrogen fuel cell system In line with the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) revised target of achieving zero net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by around 2050, the maritime sector is pursuing decarbonization efforts. Left: Testing of the marine hydrogen fuel cell system; Right: installation into a ship.

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Hydrogen Commercial Fuel Mariner 359

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APRIL 4, 2020

At a time when pollution regulations are increasingly focused on the emissions ships generate, the SCiB will contribute to the protection of the marine and global environments. The certification is based on Class NK’s “Guidelines for Large-capacity Storage Batteries,” which requires use of a BMU in the system as a safety feature.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Transport Canada has awarded a contract to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL), Canada’s premier nuclear science and technology organization, to develop an assessment tool to examine clean technologies that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the release of other pollutants from marine vessels.

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Mariner Canada Clean Cleaning 170

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

BASF and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., SHI) will carry out a collaborative feasibility assessment of capturing CO 2 onboard maritime vessels using BASF’s OASE blue technology for flue gas applications. The scope of the collaboration includes a marinization study as well as engineering design and construction of the carbon capture unit.

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Carbon Industrial Industry Mariner 210

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an EU-funded research project, an international consortium is aiming to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils in shipping. In addition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is seeking to ban HFO use in Arctic waters. NL); Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd. (CH);

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Mariner Oil Fuel Cleaner 273

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JULY 20, 2023

MAN Energy Solutions will begin developing methanol retrofit solutions for medium-speed marine engines as part of a research association including WTZ Roßlau gGmbh and TU-Darmstadt. In addition, the project will evaluate the suitability of the methanol retrofit concept for other fuels (Ammonia-NH 3 , Liquefied Natural Gas-LNG).

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Mariner Engine Climate Concept 150

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

SEALNG, the multi-sector industry coalition accelerating the widespread adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel, welcomed Canadian LNG provider FortisBC to the growing coalition. FortisBC brings to the coalition nearly 50 years’ experience in LNG production in Western Canada.

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Mariner Fuel Alternative Fuels Canada 150

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JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of a strategy to continue providing low-emissions solutions for harsh offshore operating environments, Siemens has opened a fully robotized and digitalized plant in Norway that will develop and manufacture energy storage technologies for both marine and offshore oil and gas applications. —Bjørn Einar Brath.

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Energy Storage Mariner Li-ion Oil 239

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Funded by a grant from Danish EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program), the partners will pursue a high-efficiency solution with the scalability to support marine industry decarbonization. Such alternatives are needed in the maritime industry, which must transition to greener power over just a few decades.

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Industrial Industry Fuel Mariner 170

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. A prototype of the ROV has been tested in Chen’s lab and in Galveston Bay.

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Oil Gas Chevron Houston 221

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel have found that considerable quantities of the greenhouse gas methane escape uncontrolled into the water from abandoned oil and gas wells in the North Sea. On the basis of investigations directly on the seafloor it was possible to determine the amount of escaping gas.

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Gas Escape Oil Mariner 273

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This will be the first volume production of fuel cells in Norway and a hub for the Norwegian hydrogen industry. We are optimizing fuel cells from the bottom up for heavy-duty marine use. TECO 2030 plans to deliver a marine hydrogen solution that is more efficient, compact and durable than fuel cells based on modified automotive stacks.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., The vessel can substantially reduce the amount of sulfur oxide (SO x ), nitrogen oxide (NO x ) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) contained in the engine exhaust gas by using LNG as primary fuel.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that its natural gas engine L30KG—serving as the main engine for large vessels fueled solely by gas with an output capacity of more than 2 MW—has become the first Japanese-made gas engine to obtain type approval for the engine by DNV.

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Mariner Gas Engine Japan 199

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system for marine propulsion and power generation with Navig8, a Singapore-based major shipping company which operates 140 chemical and oil tankers globally. Doosan Fuel Cell Co.,

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South Korea Mariner Singapore 2008 331

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APRIL 9, 2020

The MOU between ABB and hydrogen technologies specialist Hydrogène de France (HDF) envisages close collaboration on the assembly and production of the fuel cell power plant for marine applications. —Juha Koskela, Managing Director, ABB Marine & Ports. —Damien Havard, CEO of HDF. With shipping responsible for about 2.5%

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France Manufacturer Mariner Fuel 397

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Total, the world’s fourth-ranked international oil and gas company, has joined SEALNG, a multi-sector industry coalition created to accelerate the widespread adoption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel. —Olivier Jouny, Total Marine Fuels Managing Director.

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Mariner Fuel Oil 2020 150

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AUGUST 1, 2021

In conjunction with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), the companies’ initial design for an engineless, fuel-cell-powered liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from DNV, a premier international maritime classification society.

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Power Powered Design Energy 321

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APRIL 9, 2021

Initiated by MAN with partners from industry and research institutes, it aims to define the steps necessary to produce a dual-fuel, medium-speed engine capable of running on diesel-fuel and ammonia. This will be done in close collaboration with MAN and will also form the basis for defining any requirements for exhaust-gas aftertreatment.

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Engine Industrial Industry Energy 397

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This offers the shipping industry a pathway to low-carbon operations within a reasonable time frame. Current difficulties and cost considerations regarding the production, distribution, and onboard storage of hydrogen have so far limited the sector’s interest in its direct use as a marine fuel. © Wärtsilä Corporation.

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Hydrogen Carbon Mariner Fuel 221

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JULY 15, 2021

Wärtsilä says that the test results are very encouraging, with one test engine performing very well when running on a fuel with 70% ammonia content at a typical marine load range. For the marine market, the company expects to have an engine running on an ammonia blend already this year. —Håkan Agnevall, CEO of Wärtsilä.

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Hydrogen Carbon Mariner Norway 259

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MARCH 25, 2021

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has announced a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero by the end of this century. A global leader in maritime powertrain technology, Yanmar was among the first companies to comply with environmental regulations with its development of dual-fuel marine engines.

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Hydrogen Fuel Mariner Japan 284

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A recent report from CE Delft, an independent research and consultancy organization, regarding the climate impact of Exhaust Gas Cleaning (EGC) systems for the marine industry. The report concludes that the environmental impact of EGCs will be less than that of low-sulfur marine fuel.

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Climate Mariner Fuel Emissions 243

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ballard’s FCwave engine is a scalable fuel cell system certified for operation in marine environments. Amogy’s platform was successfully demonstrated in several industrial applications. —Søren Østergaard Hansen, General Manager, Marine and Stationary, Ballard Power Systems Europe A/S. Earlier post.)

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Emissions Engine Fuel Mariner 186

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MAY 31, 2021

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners earlier this month approved changes centered around incorporating the international Environmental Ship Index (ESI) into the Port’s Green Ship Incentive Program, which began in 2012. Vessels with main engines meeting International Maritime Organization’s Tier III standard (no more than 3.4

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Long Beach Clean Cleaning Gas 221

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JULY 8, 2020

The European Commission had put forward a proposal to revise the EU system for monitoring, reporting and verifying CO 2 emissions from maritime transport (the “EU MRV Regulation”) and to bring it in line with new obligations under International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to monitor emissions from 2019 and report in 2020.

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Environment CO2 Climate Industrial 247

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JUNE 25, 2022

Lines (MOL), Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, and Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding launched a joint project aimed at developing and building an ocean-going liquefied gas carrier that will use ammonia as its main fuel. So the move to use ammonia as fuel strategically has been accelerating in the maritime industry as well. Mitsui O.S.K.

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Gas Fuel Clean Cleaning 243

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JUNE 8, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from the global maritime sector are increasing. Greenhouse gas emissions from the global maritime sector are increasing. The Fourth IMO Greenhouse Gas study, published in August 2020, predicts that emissions could increase by as much as 130% by 2050 compared with 2008 levels.

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APRIL 15, 2019

A lifecycle study by consultancy thinkstep, commissioned by SEALNG and SGMF, has found that greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions of up to 21% are achievable now from LNG as a marine fuel, compared with current oil-based marine fuels, over the entire life-cycle from Well-to-Wake (WtW). —SEALNG Chairman Peter Keller.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Meanwhile, aboard a dedicated 103-meter-long monitoring vessel, industry contractors and independent scientists are conducting a complex monitoring program to assess the environmental impacts of the collector system trials using an array of more than 50 subsea sensors and monitoring stations.

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Mariner Water Environment Oil 418

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The UK government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) approved the field development plan put forward by Statoil and its co-venturers for the Mariner heavy oil field. Location of the Mariner field. Statoil expects to start production from Mariner in 2017, and the field is expected to produce for 30 years.

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Mariner Oil Climate Change 2007 225

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

MAN Energy Solutions and Wessels Marine GmbH announced a technical showcase whereby the 2017-retrofitted Wes Amelie , a 1,036-TEU feeder container ship, will use liquefied SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) produced from renewable electrical energy as drop-in fuel. —Christian Hoepfner, Managing Owner of Wessels Marine, Hamburg.

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Gas Audi Mariner Climate 150

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ Suiso Frontier , the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier, has left Japan to pick up its first hydrogen cargo in Australia. The Suiso Frontier received a classification from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK), recognizing that it complies with International Maritime Organization?IMO)

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Hydrogen Japan Australia Gas-Electric 532

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JULY 16, 2011

Mandatory measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from international shipping were adopted by Parties to MARPOL Annex VI represented in the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), when it met for its 62 nd session from 11 to 15 July 2011 at IMO Headquarters in London.

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International Environment Global Industrial 210

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has developed a new liquefied natural gas storage tank model for marine applications it calls the Lobe-Bundle Tank. The Lobe-Bundle Tank uses ring-shaped plates instead of conventional flat plates to reduce the weight of the tank and building cost significantly. Lobe-Bundle Tank. Click to enlarge.

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Mariner Hyundai 2013 2012 210

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JULY 5, 2017

Leading shipowners and operators, classification societies, engine and technology builders and suppliers, big data providers, and oil companies have signed up to a new Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to support transitioning shipping and its related industries towards a low carbon future. Ricardo UK Ltd; Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.;

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Industrial Industry Global Carbon 150

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

The global maritime transport industry has submitted a proposal to the UN IMO to form the world’s first collaborative shipping R&D program to help eliminate CO 2 emissions from international shipping. The proposal includes core funding from shipping companies across the world of about US$5 billion over a 10-year period.

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Emissions Mariner International Carbon 195