Company to trial methanol bunkering from July
The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) has announced Golden Island Pte Ltd will be procuring Towngas’s green methanol for its bunkering operations in Singapore.
As announced, under this supply arrangement, Towngas will provide ISCC EU and ISCC PLUS-certified green methanol to Golden Island’s new Singapore-flagged bunker tanker, Golden Antares.
The vessel is scheduled to depart a Chinese shipyard by late April and will lift the green methanol produced by Towngas before returning to Singapore to begin bunkering trials in July 2025.
Golden Antares, equipped with mass flowmeters and a 6,500-tonne carrying capacity for methanol, will transport the cargo to a Singapore-operated terminal prior to conducting bunkering operations in compliance with Singapore’s recently published Technical Reference (TR) 129 on Methanol Bunkering, providing a comprehensive framework for the safe and efficient use of methanol as an alternative marine fuel.
With this arrangement in place, we ensure that green methanol marine fuel, provided by Golden Island, offers Carbon Intensity savings of more than 75% compared to conventional Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil.
…said Tomohiro Yamano, General Manager of the Marine Fuel Department, Golden Island.
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