The UK Government is planning to create a “treasure map” which will show how much carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be possible under the North Sea seabed. The plan envisages that companies that already have a license to store carbon will have to report what they find to the North Sea Transitio
MODEC has signed a sales and purchase agreement with Equinor to supply an FPSO, which will work at a recently sanctioned project off Brazil.
French utility company Engie and Western Australian technology development company Hazer Group have extended their collaboration for clean hydrogen and graphitic carbon production facility in France. Hazer Group is undertaking the commercialisation of the Hazer Process, a low-emission hydrogen and g
Afentra plc has completed the acquisition of interests in two blocks offshore Angola from Croatia’s INA-Industrija Nafte. This marks the UK player’s entry into Angola.
QED Naval, a Scotland-based tidal energy company, has applied to the UK government’s fifth contracts for difference (CfD) allocation round to develop its tidal energy project at Morlais site in Wales.
South Korea has held a naming ceremony for its first domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessel, the country’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) revealed.
UK biofuel supplier Green Biofuels (GBF) has teamed up with GAC Ireland, a provider of ship agency services at all major Irish ports, to complete the first lifting of renewable drop in diesel fuel (GD+) from GBF’s Cork Terminal, also known as Ireland’s first clean fuels terminal. The first 39,000-li
German transmission system operator (TSO), 50Hertz, and Estonia’s TSO, Elering, have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly develop a hybrid submarine cable project called Baltic WindConnector in the Baltic Sea between Estonia and Germany. The Baltic WindConnector will be around 750 kilometres long an
Papua New Guinea’s Kumul Petroleum Holdings has once again extended the period for the binding conditional offer made to Australian energy company Santos to acquire a 5% interest in PNG LNG for an asset value of $1.4 billion. The offer will remain open until 31 August 2023, and Santos said it has ag
The US Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program has approved ten projects through its ninth request for technical support (RFTS), reflecting a total of more than $1.2 million.
Chinese shipbuilder Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding hosted a naming ceremony for two 190,000-ton dual-fuel LNG bulk carriers intended for UK-based mining company Anglo American. The two bulkers were named Ubuntu Empathy and Ubuntu Humanity at an event hosted by the shipbuilder on May 9. The occasio
European Parliament’s landslide plenary vote shows the EU is ready to step up efforts to curb the methane footprint from the energy sector.
Classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Korean industry leaders have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to conduct a feasibility study for a near-shore floating platform of green hydrogen production and liquefaction. The MoU was signed by ABS, the Korea Institute of Ener
Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, a green hydrogen development company, and Koole Terminals, an independent provider of integrated services for storage, processing and logistics, have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) on green ammonia. The LoI covers the import of green ammonia into north-western Europe with Hy
