by Mariska Buitendijk | Sep 16, 2021 | Marine fuels, News
Shell has decided to build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. Carbon produced during the manufacturing process is to be captured and stored in an empty...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 7, 2021 | News, Ship design, Shipbuilding
The first of forty inland waterway barges that are being built by Concordia Damen has been launched at the casco yard in Serbia. The vessels, known as Parsifal tankers, will be 110 x 11.45 metres and feature low emission LNG propulsion and extreme shallow draught...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 12, 2021 | Inland navigation, News, Ship design, Shipbuilding
Concordia Damen Shipbuilding BV spent approximately eighteen months developing the major new inland shipping project “Parsifal”. The project involves the construction of a series of forty inland navigation tankers. The ships have an environmentally friendly design and...
by Mariska Buitendijk | May 10, 2021 | Emissions, News, Offshore
The mega project Porthos to store CO2 from industry in the port of Rotterdam in an empty gas field in the North Sea has come a step closer. The companies involved in the project have been granted a subsidy that could amount to over 2 billion euros. This was confirmed...
by Mariska Buitendijk | Feb 4, 2021 | News
Last year, oil and gas company Shell booked its largest ever loss (USD 21.7 billion) as a result of the corona crisis. Large write-offs during the first lockdown already resulted in the largest quarterly loss in the company’s history. Shell was not able to make...
