A one-year wave data campaign has commenced in the Caribbean island of Martinique to gather information that will chart the path for the development of a pilot wave energy project. Danish wave energy company Wavepiston entered into an agreement in 2023 with French firm YS Energies Marines Developpem
Intending to drive maritime and offshore energy innovation, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a classification society, has forged a partnership with Seatrium Technology and Innovation, a technology subsidiary of Singapore’s offshore, marine, and energy engineering solutions specialist Seatrium
Energy technology company Baker Hughes and Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) manufacturer Strohm are developing a hybrid flexible pipe (HFP) for ultradeepwater risers and flowline applications that will be half as heavy as a conventional flexible pipe. Under an inked memorandum of understandi
Aker Solutions, Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers (KNCC), a joint venture of Knutsen Group and NYKLine, and Vår Energi CCS AS, the project’s operator, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the Trudvang CO2 transportation and storage project in the Norwegian North Sea. The partnership
Hong Kong-headquartered Venture Energy Limited, focused on the procurement and trading of clean fuels, and Shanghai Shenji Energy & Environmental Technology have expanded their recently established collaboration to medium- to long-term offtake, green fuel trial bunkering, trading platforms and techn
Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas heavyweight Petronas has shaken hands with Eneos Explora, a subsidiary of Japan’s Eneos Group, on a deal that will enable the latter to rejoin a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that receives gas from offshore fields in Malaysian waters.
Irish and Spanish ministries have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the potential for a future electricity interconnector between the two countries. The MoU was signed by Ireland’s Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment and Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transitio
Swedish offshore survey company Njord Survey has signed a framework agreement with Norwegian state-owned energy firm Equinor for the delivery of pipeline inspection and integrity services offshore Europe. Under the three-year framework agreement, Njord Survey said it would deliver high-resolution ge
Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) have jointly applied to run a demonstration project on the supply of ammonia fuel for vessels in Singapore, building on their memorandum of understanding (MoU) from last month to conduct a fr
The Hague-based Wave Energy Collective (Weco) has teamed up with Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, to test its wave energy converter (WEC) capable of generating power even in very small sea states. Weco reported today, April 23, that it had been deve
Italian engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem has secured a new offshore contract with ExxonMobil in Guyana, covering the operator’s eighth oil discovery in the Stabroek block. Worth around $150 million, ExxonMobil Guyana Limited awarded Saipem with a limited notice to procee
Oceaneering has performed the first piloting operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on a drilling rig offshore Brazil from its onshore remote operations center (OROC), for Brazilian oil & gas giant Petrobras. The company’s Subsea Robotics segment and Brazilian subsidiary Marine Production Sy
UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register and South Korea’s Pusan National University (PNU) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the first-ever global certification framework for liquid hydrogen shipping. The framework aims to create the first internationally recognize
Netherlands-based heavy lifting and transport provider Mammoet has streamlined two topside decommissioning projects in the North Sea by employing combined planning to curb costs and delivery time.
