Despite a slight decline in total cargo throughput, 2023 was a year of success for the Port of Rotterdam which is making significant strides in becoming more sustainable.
Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP), a joint venture between Seapath Group and Pilot LNG, has joined SEA-LNG, a multi-sector industry coalition promoting LNG as a marine fuel. By becoming a SEA-LNG member, Galveston LNG Bunker Port expects to further enhance the industry coalition’s LNG supply infrastr
Baker Hughes has secured a contract with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras for integrated well construction services for a large deepwater field, located in Brazil’s pre-salt Santos Basin. The integrated services project is set to start in the first half of 2025 and will include dril
Perenco has started drilling activities at an appraisal well offshore Gabon, using a jack-up rig owned by the Netherlands-headquartered Dixstone.
Canada has seized control of all 227 offshore oil and gas exploration and production permits off its Pacific coast, putting a stop to further hydrocarbon extraction activities in this area.
The Netherlands-based engineering consultancy Blue Wasp Marine has received Approval in Principle (AiP) from Italian classification society RINA for its Pelican performance prediction software for wind-assisted ships.
SBM Offshore has revealed that an FPSO, which will work on ExxonMobil’s fourth oil project in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana, recently left drydock and arrived along the quayside at the Seatrium yard in Singapore.
UK’s EnergyPathways has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with MCS Subsea Solutions (MCS) and Mermaid Subsea Services related to negotiating the provision of subsea FEED services for its field in the UK Irish Sea. The MoU concerns negotiating the provision of subsea FEED engineering, projec
Classification society ABS has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) to China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for its design of a methanol dual-fuel, heavy-duty offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV).
Australia’s ABEL Energy has awarded compatriot Worley with front-end engineering design (FEED) work for its A$1.7 billion ($1.116 billion) green hydrogen and methanol project at Bell Bay in Northern Tasmania. Under the agreement, Worley said the company will design and engineer the facility, while a
Finnish fuel supply systems provider Auramarine has signed a cooperation agreement with Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) and Guangzhou Jihai Shipping Material in order to drive the implementation and uptake of methanol dual fuel systems.
Thermoplastic composite pipes (TCP) have shown exceptionally low hydrogen permeation values, demonstrating technical suitability for high-pressure hydrogen service, Dutch TCP producer Strohm reported following a TCP hydrogen testing program. Strohm recently completed an extensive six-month hydrogen
Denmark-based technology company ZeroNorth and Singapore’s software developer Alpha Ori Technologies have completed a merger after receiving all required regulatory approvals.
Switerzland-based VARO Energy and Orim Energy, an independent oil trading company that specializes in the blending and bunkering of marine fuels, have formed a partnership to provide biofuels to shipping customers in the Port of Rotterdam and wider Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) region. According
