Italian shipbuilding major Fincantieri SI and Faist Group company specialized in the development and supply of complete energy storage systems, Faist Electronics have founded Power4Future, a joint venture dedicated to the production of lithium-ion batteries.
NKT has welcomed the launch of the NordLink interconnector, having completed the German section of the power cable system linking the German and Norwegian power grids.
French energy major Total has moved forward with its transformation plans into a broad energy company and changed its name.
French marine energy company HydroQuest has unveiled plans to develop a 17.5MW tidal energy farm at Raz Blanchard site, located off Normandy in France, following the takeover of the concession for the site from its former operator EDF Renewables.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP and Equinor drilling permits for their wells in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
Chinese shipping company SITC International Holdings Co (SITC) has placed an order for eight 1,023 TEU container vessels worth a total of $153.6m at South Korean shipyard Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.
National Grid’s Grain LNG facility recorded its highest ever utilization rates last month and supplied 15.1 per cent of UK gas demand during this time.
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) has chosen Iridium and partner Thales Group to deliver real-time communications for the fully autonomous transatlantic research vessel.
Seabed seismic player Magseis Fairfield has completed the acquisition of its 100th Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) survey, having performed the most recent one as the first carbon neutral seismic survey. The OBN survey for BP over various assets in the US Gulf of Mexico was announced in December last year a
The Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub project has been shortlisted by the German ministry of economics for funding under the EU’s Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) program.
Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and its group company MOL Information Systems have started the operation of a support system for car carrier allocation planning based on mathematical optimization. The introduction of this type of system is expected to enable speedy decision-making
Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina plans to build a small-scale LNG regasification unit at its Cilacap oil refinery, Java.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has launched a consultation on a decommissioning programme for AWS Ocean Energy’s Archimedes Waveswing device that will be tested in the waters off Orkney in summer 2021.
Kraken Robotics has come on board the LifeMoor project, an industry collaboration initiative that aims to extend the lifetime of subsea mooring chains.
