Paris-headquartered Groupe Gorgé has completed the acquisition of iXblue, bringing it under the same roof as ECA Group. According to iXblue, the two companies will benefit from a global workforce of 1,500 persons and will achieve an annual turnover of €250 million. “In addition to our complementary
French classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has been selected to class nine green passenger ferries that will transport over 5 million passengers annually on three routes between Hong Kong and outlying islands Lamma Island, Peng Chau, and Hei Ling Chau.
Offshore accommodation rig provider Prosafe has secured a contract extension for one of its units in the UK North Sea.
The Paimpol-Bréhat tidal energy test site has been upgraded with a reconfigured subsea link, which is expected to facilitate the demonstrations of tidal turbine technologies offshore Brittany region in France.
Denmark, Flanders and Belgium have signed an agreement to cooperate on the transport of CO2 between the two countries with a view to permanent geological storage. Besides the framework on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) cooperation, the parties have concluded an arrangement on how cr
US-based ammonia power solutions company Amogy has launched operations in Norway and hired a former director at Yara Clean Ammonia to work on accelerating the company’s effort in commercializing its ammonia-to-power technology. Amogy announced the opening of its Norway operations on 29 September wit
EnQuest has achieved a milestone in the decommissioning of the Heather asset in the UK North Sea following the award of a topside removal contract.
French container and logistics company CMA CGM Group has launched ‘TEUs to Trees’, an early container return incentive program designed to increase climate change mitigation in the United States while assisting in the overall effort to improve both the fluidity and velocity of the supply chain.
Maersk Drilling has secured a contract from Shell for the provisioning of a semi-submersible rig in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.
Onboard carbon capture with chemical absorption on large tankers has the best business cases, according to a new report by Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. The technology has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism as a costly and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissi
A geophysical survey campaign has started at the project site of SSE Renewables’ Braymore Wind Park in the north Irish Sea. The campaign will involve the deployment of towed equipment from survey vessels and is expected to be completed by early November 2022, subject to weather and operational const
European shipowners, ports, the cruise sector, shipyards and equipment manufacturers, fuel suppliers, shippers, forwarders and port operators have joined forces and called on the Member States and the European Parliament to earmark the revenues generated from the inclusion of the shipping sector in
DOF Subsea has secured multiple contracts in the Atlantic region and in the Gulf of Mexico totaling more than 680 vessel days and bringing in around $108 million. DOF Subsea will use its Skandi Acergy, Skandi Constructor, Skandi Seven, Skandi Skansen, Skandi Hera and selected third-party vessels for
Equinor has decided to exercise its option to add another well to the backlog of an Odfjell Drilling-owned rig.
