Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, has provided £297,000 in grant funding for Eco Wave Power Gibraltar-led project to develop a wave powered micro-grid system that will eventually be tested on the islands of Thailand.
Australian oil and gas industry association has labelled a new levy by the government related to decommissioning costs for Laminaria-Corallina oil fields as over the top and extreme.
Equinor’s plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Breidablikk field in the North Sea has been approved by Norwegian authorities.
Insurers of the feeder containership MV X-Press Pearl, which was hit by a fire before it sank off Colombo Port at the beginning of June, have agreed to pay a part of the initial settlement claim for the damages caused by the incident. Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Justice said that the P&I Club of the [&h
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has backed the calls for a crew change suspension in northern Mozambique until the threat to seafarers’ lives reduces. Shipowners are being urged to stop crew changes in the region because they would expose seafarers to the risk of attack or kidn
Energy services company John Wood Group has resolved bribery and corruption investigations into the past use of third parties in the legacy Amec Foster Wheeler business.
The Danish Energy Agency has started the tender process for the forthcoming 428MW technology neutral auction under which both offshore wind and wave energy projects are eligible to apply.
Australia’s Federal Court has dismissed the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) proceedings against NSW Ports Operations Hold and its subsidiaries Port Botany Operations and Port Kembla Operations.
The German government has passed new energy legislation under which the NeuConnect interconnector between the UK and Germany will operate. Approved by the German Bundestag and Bundesrat, the new laws clear the way for the construction and operation of independent cross-border interconnectors like Ne
A court has ordered Eni to place part of its revenues from a field in Ghana in an escrow account until a unitisation agreement is reached with Springfield.
Spanish senior energy officials have highlighted wave energy opportunities in the Basque Country region during their visit to Finish developer Wello’s Penguin wave energy device presently moored at the Bilbao Port.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions has awarded funding for a research project that will seek to optimise non-toxic coatings for control of biofouling and corrosion on marine energy devices and facilities.
UK-based renewable energy technology company WITT has secured a £350,000 contract with the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) to develop energy harvesting technology for the subsea environment.
As the shipping industry marks this year’s Day of the Seafarer, hundreds of thousands of seafarers continue to face challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to repatriation, shore leave, and medical support. “After a year of seafarer mistreatment by governments and ineffective lob
