September 20, 2024--Written by Daniel Graeber for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) (San Ramon, California) and marine and energy technology firm Wartsila Corporation (Helsinki, Finland) are working to lower emissions from the shipping sector by converting ship engines to burn gas more efficiently.

Wartsila and the shipping division of Chevron agreed to convert one engine each on six different liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from dual-fuel to spark-gas operations.

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