Carbon Capture & Storage: A New Lease of Life for Submarine Pipelines?
Since 2019, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) have risen up the political agenda, globally, offering a route to decarbonization, as well as (more recently), increased energy security. Many are eying use of existing pipeline to make both happen. Elaine Maslin takes a look.Hydrogen production and CCS offers…
MHI Invests in C-Zero to Accelerate Production of Clean Hydrogen
$11.5M Series A Funding Round Also Includes Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ENI Next and AP Ventures Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has invested in C-Zero, a hard tech startup located in Santa Barbara, Calif., to accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of C-Zero's drop-in decarbonization technology…
Deme Offshore Joins Neptune's Hydrogen Project
Offshore installation contractor Deme Offshore has joined Neptune Energy's PosHYdon pilot, the world’s first offshore green hydrogen project, being developed in the Dutch North Sea.Part of the Belgian Deme Group, the company joins as a partner and will provide the hydrogen unit for installation on the Neptune-operated Q13a platform.
Kawasaki Begins Hydrogen Project
Japanese public multinational corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries and its subsidiary company based in Melbourne Hydrogen Engineering Australia announced commencement of construction work to build the Hydrogen Liquefaction and Loading Terminal for the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot project (Project).The facility will convert hydrogen gas into liquefied hydrogen…
IMO 2020: Hydrogen's Future in Maritime
Hydrogen fuel cell technology to Satisfy Future IMO RequirementsWith an ongoing push by the maritime community to reduce ship emissions to satisfy IMO MARPOL Annex VI regulations and limit the sulfur content of ships from 01 January 2020 to 0.5 percent world-wide, many ship owners are starting to consider hydrogen fuel cell technology to satisfy evolving emissions regulations.
New Design for Liquid Hydrogen Bunkering Vessel Unveiled
Design and engineering services company Moss Maritime has, in cooperation with Equinor, the global maritime industry group Wilhelmsen and DNV GL, developed a design for a liquefied hydrogen (LH2) bunker vessel.The vessel design comes at a time when hydrogen is developing into a viable solution. Liquefied hydrogen…
Netherlands to Allow New Offshore Wind Investments
The Dutch government on Tuesday said it will allow five new offshore wind turbine farms capable of producing 7 gigawatts (GW) of electricity in the 2024 to 2030 period. The Netherlands is lagging other European countries in renewable energy investments and has launched a programme to speed up renewable energy projects…
Police Investigate 2016 Hydrogen Leak at Statoil Refinery
Norwegian police have launched an investigation into a hydrogen gas leak at Statoil's Mongstad refinery in October 2016, the company said on Friday. Statoil temporarily shut and evacuated its main refinery on Norway's west coast when a rusted pipe socket ruptured. The firm's own investigation found the resulting…
Engie Plans to Go Green
French utility Engie plans to switch all of its gas operations to biogas and renewable hydrogen by 2050, making it 100 percent green, its chief executive said on Monday. The power and gas group has some 70 biogas projects worldwide, including 40 in France, and says that if all its projects get approval its annual…
Kalmar, SSAB Partnership to develop Fuel Cell Forklift
Kalmar today announced that it will start cooperation with SSAB in Sweden to develop a hydrogen-powered medium-range forklift truck. The aim is to find a more sustainable solution for our customer SSAB and help them to contribute in diminishing carbon dioxide emissions at the site. The forklift truck to be developed…
Statoil Shuts Down Mongstad Oil Refinery's Gasoline Production Due Gas Leak
Statoil has shut down the production of gasoline at its Mongstad refinery on Norway's west coast following a hydrogen gas leak on Tuesday, the company said. "We evacuated 600 people from the facility just after 1pm (1100 GMT)," said a company spokesman. It was too early to say when production could resume and at what rate the unit was producing when the incident occurred…
SoCalGas Launches First Power-to-gas Project in US
Southern California Gas Company is bringing sci-fi innovation to life and has joined with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC) to launch demonstration projects to create and test a carbon-free, power-to-gas system for the first time ever in the U.S.
