Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell has called for a level playing field to be created through the maritime regulatory authorities that will see alternatives to fossil fuels compete on an equal basis with their carbon-based counterparts.

China’s Shandong Shipping Corporation has signed eight tanker charter contracts with Royal Dutch Shell in the city of Jinan, Shandong province to provide shipping and logistics services to the oil major.

Marine battery provider Corvus Energy has been granted a Manufacturing Survey Arrangement (MSA) by classification society DNV GL.

Oil major Shell is making moves to support the global development of maritime energy storage solutions as it invests in Corvus Energy via Shell Ventures.

Oil and gas major Shell sees a growing commitment to LNG as marine fuel and bio and synthetic options would make it “a robust step” in meeting IMO CO2 targets.

Oil major Chevron has revealed that it will offer the IMO 2020-compliant 0.5% sulphur bunker fuel by the end of the third quarter, reports said.

With the IMO 2020 implementation day approaching, oil major Shell announced that it has carried out 19 successful trials of its very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) at key ports globally.

Russia’s Sovcomflot Group has concluded a new $297m financing facility with three international banks for its two new-generation 174,000 cu m LNG carriers which will operate under long term charters to oil major Shell.

Dubai-based Tristar Group has ordered six newbuild 25,000-dwt oil and chemical tanks at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard on the back of long term charters with oil major Shell.

FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) and Shell Eastern Petroleum, has achieved Singapore’s 100th truck-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in accordance with the Technical Reference (TR) 56 standard for LNG bunkering...