European Council Adopts Targeted Flexibility for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
The European Council has formally adopted a targeted amendment to the regulation on CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles. The new rules introduce a temporary flexibility for manufacturers to comply with their 2030 CO2 emissions reduction targets. The amendment does not alter the the long-term reduction targets. This amendment recognises the structural challenges currently faced […]
Netherlands Introduces Truck Toll For All Domestic And Foreign Carriers
The Netherlands’ new truck toll is to be introduced on 1 July 2026. The toll applies to almost all Dutch highways and is applicable to domestic and foreign vehicles. The toll has been introduced to make transportation sustainable and efficient. It is intended to stimulate investments in lighter and more environmentally sustainable vehicles. […]
Company Highlight: MINOVA
For more than 35 years, MINOVA Information Services GmbH has been developing specialised software solutions for the mineral oil industry. This long-standing sector expertise forms the foundation of the company’s mission today: enabling tank terminal operators to build resilient, secure and future-ready digital infrastructures. Tank storage operations are complex, highly regulated and operationally critical. The company’s solutions are designed precisely for these realities. With products such as TTA (Tank Terminal Automation), we provide structured inventory accounting, reliable process control and seamless integration across terminal environments. Complementary systems including DISPO, AFIS, SAM and SIS extend this integrated approach to dispatching, aviation […]
Egypt Energy Show Highlights Energy Security Priorities
The Egypt Energy Show 2026 launched with a stirring message from Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah El Sisi, who called on global leaders across government and industry to unite in the face of unprecedented international volatility: ‘The International Energy Agency has indicated that this may be one of the most severe energy crises in modern history […]
Golden Pass LNG Achieves First LNG Production
Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture between QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil, has achieved first production of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Train 1 at its Sabine Pass Terminal, marking a major milestone in the project’s journey to full operations. This achievement reflects years of planning, engineering, permitting, construction, start-up activities, and community collaboration. Alex Savva, president […]
TotalEnergies Completes NEO Next Merger
TotalEnergies has completed the merger between NEO NEXT and TotalEnergies’ UK Upstream Oil & Gas business. The combined group has been renamed NEO NEXT+, with TotalEnergies holding a 47.5% shareholding interest. This transaction makes NEO NEXT+ the largest independent oil and gas producer on the UK Continental Shelf, with an expected 2026 production of over […]
Anew Climate & Avenir Complete Joint Bio‑LNG Bunkering
Anew Climate, a global leader in low-carbon fuel solutions, and Avenir, a leading provider of LNG and Bio-LNG for the maritime sector, has announced the successful completion of their first joint liquefied biomethane (Bio-LNG) bunkering operation at the LNG terminal in the Port of Klaipėda, Lithuania, operated by KN Energies. During the operation, Anew supplied […]
HES International To Advance Europe’s CO₂ Infrastructure
As Europe continues to strengthen its approach to energy security, the role of effective Carbon Management is becoming increasingly important. Creating reliable pathways for the reduction, capture, transport and permanent storage of CO₂ is essential for enabling industries to meet their decarbonisation goals while ensuring a resilient energy system for the future. The German Carbon […]
EEMUA Advocates For An Update To The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000
The Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association (EEMUA) has written to the UK Government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to raise concerns about the ongoing review of the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 (PSSR) under the Government’s Regulatory Action Plan. In a letter sent to the sponsoring Minister of State with primary oversight […]
Space4Good & RINA Partner on Satellite-Based Verification for Infrastructure and Environment
Space4Good, a Dutch geospatial analytics company, has entered a technical partnership with RINA, a global consulting engineering, inspection and certification group operating in more than 70 countries. The partnership brings together Space4Good’s satellite Earth observation and AI-based analytics with RINA’s engineering expertise. The two organisations will work on applications where satellite data can support independent […]
Phillips 66 & Calor Mark 40 Years of LPG Storage
Phillips 66 Limited and Calor are marking 40 years since the commissioning of the Immingham LPG Caverns, a jointly owned underground storage facility that has supported UK LPG supply since 1986. Located at the Humber Refinery LPG Terminal, the site comprises two underground caverns mined approximately 200 metres below ground in chalk. Each cavern provides […]
Grandperspective: Can PGS-12 Become Europe’s Blueprint for Ammonia Storage Safety?
Dr. Therese Keck, head of professional services at Grandperspective, and content specialist James Gordon review the case for PGS-12 safety standards Ammonia is fast becoming a fundamental pillar of Europe’s energy transition. What for years was considered a major fertiliser feedstock is increasingly being looked at as an energy carrier, a marine fuel and a hydrogen vector. The environmental benefits are clear but the scaling-up of the ammonia economy poses challenges for regulators. Leading the way is the Netherlands, where demand for increased storage and import capacity at the Ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen has been most keenly felt. This […]
TNPA Appoints FFS Tank Terminals To Operate Bulk Liquid Terminal
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has appointed FFS Tank Terminals as the preferred bidder to refurbish and operate a liquid bulk terminal for a 25- year concession period at the Port of Cape Town. The terminal, specialising in edible oils and compatible cargo, is a brownfield development covering approximately 6,289 m² within the Liquid Bulk […]
Shell Bacton Gas Terminal Workers Vote To Renew Strike Action
Altrad employees at the Shell Bacton Gas Terminal in Norfolk have voted overwhelmingly to continue their pay-related strike action, which entered its sixth month. GMB Union, which is representing the workers, recorded 100 per cent vote in favour on a 96 per cent turnout. Altrad employees are currently paid around £1.20 per hour less than […]
Dover Fueling Solutions Launches ProGauge
Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a part of Dover Corporation and a leading global provider of advanced customer-focused technologies, services and solutions in the fuel and convenience retail industry, introduces enhanced wireless connectivity for ProGauge DMP Magnetostrictive probes and ProGauge DMP Flex Magnetostrictive probes (formerly branded DFS DMP) with the launch of the ProGauge DMP MagRF. […]
ABB Launches EmissionVision
ABB is expanding its advanced leak detection portfolio with the launch of the workflow management platform EmissionVision, supporting faster methane leak repair across the natural gas industry. Built on ABB’s patented OA-ICOS laser absorption technology, EmissionVision streamlines the transition from traditional gas leak surveys to advanced leak detection. By connecting emission indications, field investigation and […]
Bp To Sell Gelsenkirchen Refinery to Klesch Group
Bp has reached an agreement to sell its Gelsenkirchen refinery and related businesses to Klesch Group, an independent European refiner. The transaction represents another significant milestone in bp’s acceleration of its strategy, including simplifying the portfolio, strengthening the balance sheet and focusing the downstream on its leading integrated businesses. Bp is now targeting $6.5 to […]
StocExpo 2026: Volatility In The Tank Storage Sector
As seismic shifts are happening in the global geopolitical and economic landscape, a panel of experts at StocExpo 2026 looked at how these could impact product flows and how the tank storage industry may respond. Ramon Ernst, integration leader at Curoil, looked at how the landscape keeps constantly shifting. ‘Two months ago, all we talked about was Venezuela,’ he said. ‘Now we are only talking about the Middle East. Sometimes in Europe, we can look too inward – we see now how we are impacted by everything else in the world.’ This was echoed by Patrick Kulsen, CEO at Insight […]
Evos Rotterdam Commences Methanol & Ethanol Expansion Project
Evos Rotterdam has commenced the realisation of a major expansion project for (low-carbon) methanol and ethanol storage, following a signing ceremony held at the Port of Rotterdam. The ceremony was attended by Daan Vos, CEO of Evos, and Boudewijn Siemons, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, marking an important milestone in the collaboration between […]
Neste Commissions Facility For Liquefied Waste Plastic
Neste has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. This €111 million investment marks a major milestone in the scale-up of chemical recycling, enabling the production of high-quality feedstock for the plastics and chemicals industry. With an annual capacity to process up to 150,000 tonnes […]
Stolt-Nielsen & NYK Line Form Joint Venture in Avenir LNG
Stolt-Nielsen Limited through its subsidiary Stolt-Nielsen Gas Ltd., has announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement to sell 50% of Avenir LNG Limited (Avenir LNG) to Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line). Avenir LNG was founded in 2017 and has grown into a leading player in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering […]
Power2X Starts Field Work for eFuels Rotterdam
Power2X have announced that the company has completed a trial digging at its project site in the Port of Rotterdam, kicking off actual field work for Power2X eFuels Rotterdam. Although this isn’t the start of construction yet, these excavations are important to verify available space in the pipeline corridor ensuring direct supply of synthetic Sustainable […]
Seatrium Wins FSRU Conversion From Karpowership
Seatrium has been awarded a contract by Karpowership, for the conversion of a new Floating Storage Regasification Unit (“FSRU”). Karpowership is a longstanding customer for Seatrium, renowned for owning, operating and building the world’s largest Powership (floating power plant) fleet. This latest contract award signals a progression of an earlier letter of intent (“LOI”) signed […]
OX2, Södra & TES Advance Värö Electric Natural Gas Project
OX2 and Södra, together with the e-NG project development company TES, today announced that they are advancing their development plans for an e-NG (electric natural gas) facility at the Värö peninsula in Varberg, Sweden, by entering the Pre-Front-End Engineering Design (Pre-FEED) phase. The decision follows the signing of a Letter of Intent in January 2025 […]
Maersk & Avenir Sign Bio-LNG Supply Agreement
Avenir Marine Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avenir LNG, has signed a framework fuel supply agreement with the shipping company A.P. Moller – Maersk. Under the Agreement, signed already in H2 2025, Maersk and Avenir will start the supply of bio-LNG with lower GHG emissions in 2027. The first deliveries will be in alignment […]
MOL & Slovnaft File Complaint Against JANAF
MOL and Slovnaft have submitted a formal complaint to the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission alleging that JANAF, the company operating the Croatian crude oil pipeline, is abusing its monopoly position. On 27 January 2026, crude oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline were interrupted. The pipeline has been out […]
SEFE & Southern Energy Sign LNG Agreement
SEFE Securing Energy for Europe and Argentina’s Southern Energy S.A. (SESA) have entered a Sales and Purchase Agreement for an eight-year LNG supply partnership. Under the agreement, SEFE will purchase two million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG on a free on board (FOB) basis, with deliveries scheduled to begin in late 2027. The Sales […]
TotalEnergies To Export LNG From The Alaska LNG Project
TotalEnergies has signed a preliminary agreement (Letter of Intent) with Glenfarne, the lead developer of the Alaska LNG project, for the long-term offtake of 2 million tonnes per year (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over 20 years, subject to the project’s final investment decision. The future Alaska LNG project, located on the U.S. Pacific […]
Moeve Approves FID for Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley
Moeve has approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the first phase of its flagship Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, making Southern Europe’s largest green hydrogen project a reality. CEO Maarten Wetselaar said in a post on LinkedIn: ‘I am proud to announce a defining milestone of our #PositiveMotion strategy, driven by our firm belief in […]
Aramco Refinery Closes Amid Middle East Conflict
UPDATED 03/03/2026 @ 09:52 GMT A fuel tank at the Port of Duqm, Oman, has been targeted in a drone attack, according to the country’s state news agency. No casualties have been reported. Previous updates below
Spring 2026
Archive edition: Vol 22 Issue 06 Date published: February 2026 Spring 2026 By Anamika Talwaria March 2, 2026 In this issue… EXCLUSIVE: In Conversation with Fabian Ziegler Chane’s new CEO gives his first interview exclusively to Tank Storage Magazine and shares his vision for the company’s future Storage Investment in a Shifting World The experts at Energex look at investor trends shaping storage sector acquisitions and refinancing in 2026 STOCEXPO PREVIEW Discover the innovations that exhibitors are bringing to the show, plus exclusive insights from speakers at the conference, ahead of their sessions Can PGS-12 Become Europe’s Blueprint for Ammonia […]
Dover Fueling Solutions Launches ProGauge LR120 Radar
Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a leading global provider of advanced customer-focused technologies, services and solutions in the fuel and convenience retail industry, is proud to launch the ProGauge LR120 Radar – DFS’ latest automatic tank gauging (ATG) solution specifically designed for industrial applications. The radar, available in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, as well […]
