The US Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has awarded new research and development project funding for marine energy technologies. The selected small businesses are receiving Phase I Release 2 grants for innovations that demonstrate technical feasibility during the first phase of their research.
Coro Energy has received all necessary regulatory approvals for the transfer of a 15 per cent interest in the Duyung PSC, located offshore Indonesia.
Scottish engineering firm Malin Group has called on the UK and Scottish governments to create “crucial connections” which will determine the commercial future of wave and tidal stream energy. The call comes after two decades in which government incentives have failed to produce commercially viable p
TenneT is supporting the possibility of Germany taking a minority stake in the organization. In a letter to the Dutch Lower House of Parliament, Finance Minister Wopke Bastiaan Hoekstra presented his preferred scenario for meeting TenneT’s capital requirement as a result of rising investments, due t
The British Ports Association (BPA) has published an economic recovery plan for the UK government that highlights how investment in ports can play a part in the UK’s healing from “the deepest economic shock in living memory”.
The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has voted unanimously to accept a petition filed by the Lake Carriers’ Association (LCA) that alleges the ballast water regulations, as proposed by the Government of Canada, will discriminate against the US flag vessel operators.
The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program will begin accepting applications for testing and expertise support on 26 May. Announced by the US DOE last year, TEAMER’s mission is to accelerate the viability of marine renewables. It provides access facilities and exper
The Danish government is proposing to build two energy islands in the North and Baltic Seas by 2030 in its Climate Action Plan. The plan includes using the Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea as a 2 GW energy island, as well as establishing a 2 GW artificial energy island in the North Sea that [&helli
French container shipping major CMA CGM and other major multinationals have reaffirmed their science-based commitments to achieving zero-carbon economy and called on governments to march their ambition in largest ever UN-backed CEO-led climate advocacy effort.
Using their decades of experience in the oil and gas sector, three majors are moving forward with a project which will enable the transport of carbon dioxide captured from industrial sites in Norway and its storage in a reservoir below the seabed in the North Sea off Norway.
The Irish government has designated seven offshore wind projects as relevant, meaning they will be fast-tracked through the new marine planning regime. The selected projects include the Oriel, innogy’s Bray and Kish Banks, Codling I and II, Skerd Rocks and North Irish Sea Array (NISA) wind farms. Th
BOEM has selected CSA to review survey data to identify and describe potential hard-bottom areas in US Gulf of Mexico. While much of the GoM seafloor is a soft sediment, there are also hard substrate habitats across the shelf. These hardbottom habitats are often high in biodiversity and biomass, and
Spanish oil company Repsol has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to use the Maersk Inspirer jack-up rig on the Yme field offshore Norway.
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada has issued a call for public comments on Gazoduq’s LNG feeder pipeline in Québec.
