The UK High Court has quashed the decision brought at the beginning of 2022 to reject a £1.35 billion, 2 GW electricity interconnector between the UK and France. Kwasi Kwarteng, at that time Secretary of State for Business (BEIS), in January 2022 refused consent for the AQUIND interconnector despite
Norwegian container tonnage provider MPC Container Ships has signed an offtake agreement with German e-fuels supplier INERATEC for synthetic marine diesel oil (MDO) made from biogenic CO2 and renewable hydrogen. According to MPC Container Ships, this is the industry’s first agreement for the supply
Japanese heavyweights ITOCHU Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, INPEX Corporation and Taisei Corporation have joined hands to conduct a joint feasibility study on a large-scale and wide-area carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain project. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the
Singapore-based shipping company Pacific Carriers Limited (PCL) and compatriot PaxOcean Holdings Pte (PaxOcean) have teamed up with classification society ABS to explore the use of methanol for the PCL’s fleet.
Nippon Steel Corporation, Japan’s steel producer, Mitsubishi Corporation, a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses, and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific, an energy and petrochemical company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly study carbon capture a
ExxonMobil has made a significant oil discovery at the Stabroek block, fortifying its portfolio of development opportunities offshore Guyana.
A deep dive into Woodside’s recent activities related to ongoing projects and financial and operational results for 4Q 2022.
Container shipping giants MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk A/S, an entity under A.P. Moller – Maersk, have agreed to terminate the 2M alliance, effective in January 2025. 2M is a container shipping line vessel sharing agreement (VSA) signed by the duo in 2015 with the aim of ensur
UK-headquartered NDT inspections specialist TSC Subsea has revealed plans to expand to new markets in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. The strategic growth plans are said to follow on from one of TSC Subsea’s most successful years to date in which the company established new bases in Bra
Regulator has conducted an audit of Equinor’s follow-up on the maintenance of concrete structures and tension legs on a platform off Norway.
Geneva-based container shipping major MSC has reportedly returned to yards with a mammoth order comprising ten LNG-fuelled boxships. Shipbrokers say that the order involves Neopanamax vessels (11,400 TEU) and that the company is paying around $120 million per vessel. Chinese shipbuilder Zhoushan Cha
Dutch ship design company AURELIA, has joined forces with naval architecture designer NEPA SHIPPING, and ALOFT SYSTEMS, experts in sails and weather routing, on a green retrofitting project involving a 205,000 dwt bulk carrier. The project set out to demonstrate how a combination of innovative solut
French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has issued a tender seeking a provider of a survey campaign for two interconnector projects. As part of the awarded framework contract, the selected party will be in charge of carrying out maintenance survey work along
UK consortium, including engineering company MAHLE Powertrain and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has launched a project to develop sustainable propulsion solutions for retrofit to high-performance marine vessels where batteries and other electrified technologies may not prove practical.
