Tanks and Terminals news updates

The FPSO vessel for the BP-operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project has started its journey towards the project site off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal.

USD Clean Fuels has announced its intention to build a new biofuels terminal in California, US, that will have the capability to transload renewable diesel, biodiesel, ethanol and SAF.

TotalEnergies is contributing a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and supplying LNG to the project.

The EIA estimates that US natural gas consumption reached record levels in 2022, partly because of increased natural gas use in the electric power sector, according to the January Short-Term Energy Outlook.

Neptune Energy's partner, Horisont Energi, has entered into an option agreement on the location of an onshore terminal for the Errai carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway.

Vopak and Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies will incorporate a shared joint venture, LOHC Logistix, for hydrogen storage, transport and supply, based on Hydrogenious’ LOHC technology.

Uniper has brought Germany’s first full cargo of LNG to the new terminal in Wilhelmshaven.

Reduction in gas demand and increased LNG imports supports a positive outlook for 2023, reports Wood Mackenzie.

Koch Engineered Solutions has announced a strategic collaboration with Percepto to assist its customers in identifying opportunities to control and reduce emissions with AI software delivered by Percepto’s drone-in-a-box solution.

A new report from the IEA sets out key actions to close the potential supply-demand gap if Russian pipeline deliveries fall to zero, including more rapid deployments of energy efficiency and renewables.

EnBW will import 3 billion m3 of LNG per year via the Hanseatic Energy Hub in Stade, Germany, with the option of moving to ammonia as a hydrogen-based energy source at a later date.

J. Murphy & Sons Ltd has completed the construction of new storage tanks at the Oil and Pipelines Agency (OPA) oil fuel depot in the UK.

ELAFLEX HIBY and SGB have announced that the ELAFLEX HIBY Group has acquired the German supplier and manufacturer of leak detection technology, SGB GmbH.

Essar Oil UK Ltd has announced its plan to build a £360 million major new carbon capture plant at its Stanlow refinery in line with its ambition to become a leading low carbon refinery by 2030.

Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed an MoU to develop existing synergies across the countries' upstream, downstream, energy infrastructure and logistics sectors.

Natural gas has played an increasingly important role in both Egypt and Israel’s economies over the past 20 years, with both consumption and production having grown substantially.

LNG import capacity in the EU and the UK will expand by 34% by 2024 compared with 2021, according to GIIGNL and trade press data.

Woodside Energy has shipped an LNG cargo to Europe from Australia’s North West Shelf and delivered it to Uniper Global Commodities SE.

Neste and CIM have announced their collaboration to enable the supply of Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into France.

Nimofast Brasil S.A. has signed a partnership agreement with Kanfer Shipping AS to offer small and medium-scale LNG shipping, small scale floating storage units and LNG bunkering solutions to its clients in Brazil.

Wood has been appointed integrated services partner by Centrica Storage for the company’s UK Southern North Sea operations.

The project aims to provide sustainable, clean, non-intermittent and affordable energy in the form of green hydrogen, green gas, and green power. The Wilhelmshaven Green Gas Terminal aims to provide 8.5% of Germany’s energy needs.

As of 14 November 2022, the reconstruction work necessary to commence initial operations, including utilisation of all three liquefaction trains, two LNG storage tanks and one dock, was approximately 90% complete.

Vopak and Petronas have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of the value chain for CCS in the Southeast Asia region.