INTERVIEW: Total Rides Out Short-Term Volumes Hit in Shift to Cleaner Marine Fuels
by Jack Jordan, Managing Editor, Ship & Bunker
Tuesday January 26, 2021 Global energy producer Total has taken a short-term hit to its bunker sales as HSFO declines and the company positions itself to become a leading supplier of alternative marine fuels. The company s bunkering unit,
Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions (TMFGS), has shifted [its] ambition to focus on cleaner marine fuels,
Jérôme Leprince-Ringuet, the firm s managing director, told Ship & Bunker in an interview last week. We have all our efforts on VLSFO and LNG from 2020. HSFO Hits 2020 Sales
Total Biogas Push is Important Step Towards Bio-LNG Bunkers
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Wednesday January 13, 2021
French energy company
Total s acquisition of a major biogas producer in the country will help boost its ability to supply bio-LNG as a marine fuel, according to the head of its bunkering unit. On Monday Total announced the acquisition of
Fonroche Biogaz, the largest producer of renewable gas in France. The company now plans to produce
4-6 TWh/year of biomethane by
2030. This is an important step forward for us to realise bio-LNG as a real marine fuel solution for shipping s decarbonisation,
Jerome Leprince-Ringuet, managing director of bunkering unit
Infrastructure developments look promising
Throughout 2020, various new and existing LNG bunkering facilities globally are being developed to further boost the viability of using LNG as a marine fuel.
In January, LNG solutions firm KC LNG and cryogenic equipment supplier Cryostar clinched a contract to build a LNG ship bunkering and truck fuelling facility in Belgium’s Antwerp port.
In March, Lithuania’s port of Klaipeda conducted its first LNG bunkering with the supply of the clean fuel to a cement carrier from the Malkos Bay Terminal. LNG bunker supplier Cryo Shipping said it will charter a LNG bunker tanker to promote Klaipeda as a key LNG bunker port in the Baltic and introduce ship-to-ship bunkering to the market.