During the ten-day trial, the bio fuel oil (BFO) was tested in the ship’s tanks, storage and it was burned in the engines.<\/p>\n The fuel is the MR1-100 bio-fuel oil, produced from used cooking oil and was bunkered on board the ship<\/a> in the Port of Rotterdam, last March. <\/p>\n The companies said that the fuel proved to be a technically compliant alternative to the fossil default for oceangoing tanker vessels. <\/p>\n Erik H\u00e5nell, President and CEO Stena Bulk<\/strong>, said that\u00a0Stena Immortal\u00a0performed very well running on the biofuel without a disruption.<\/p>\n \u201cWe like to show the industry that we can start reducing the carbon footprint of shipping here and now while maintaining highest quality technical and commercial operations,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re happy to collaborate with GoodFuels in this test to take on that mission and encourage others to join us. We are of course open and have a willingness to drive and take part of this development together with stakeholders in this industry.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Following the successful trial, Stena Bulk and GoodFuels Marine plan to resume working together to gain more experience and scale the usage of BFO as an alternative to conventional fossil-based fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to <\/strong>GoodFuels, BFO reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 83% and substantially reduces SOX<\/sub>\u00a0emissions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n “The success of this trial further underlines sustainable marine biofuel\u2019s position within the marine fuel mix, and helps owners and operators to future-proof against current and impending regulations. As the trial was conducted with 100% biofuel, it also shows that low-carbon shipping doesn\u2019t have to be decades away but viable also on the shorter term if industry leaders work together to push the development,”<\/em> GoodFuels said.<\/p>\n The post Stena Bulk’s MR tanker wraps up biofuel trial<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stena Bulk’s MR tanker Stena immortal has concluded the biofuel trial launched in March in cooperation with the Dutch biofuel supplier GoodFuels. During the ten-day trial, the bio fuel oil (BFO) was tested in the ship’s tanks, storage and it was burned in the engines. Stena Bulk The fuel is the MR1-100 bio-fuel oil, produced …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2770,5253,3086,897,3727,2460],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-biofuel","tag-bulks","tag-stena","tag-tanker","tag-trial","tag-wraps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Stena](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/29133006\/Stena-Immortal2.jpg\")