Inpex Masela, a subsidiary of Japan’s Inpex, has prolonged its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indonesia’s PT Pertamina (Persero) (Pertamina) for a strategic collaboration to proactively pursue the implementation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Arafura Sea, Southeast Asia.
Low-carbon fuel solutions provider Anew Climate and Avenir, a provider of LNG and bio-LNG for the maritime sector, have performed Europe’s first joint liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) bunkering operation. During the operation performed at the LNG terminal in the Port of Klaipėda, Lithuania, operated b
Japanese engineering company Chiyoda Corporation, compatriot shipping major Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), and its Norway-headquartered affiliate Knutsen NYK Carbon Carriers (KNCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects
The merger between TotalEnergies’ UK North Sea upstream oil & gas business and NEO NEXT has been completed, resulting in what the French energy giant says is the largest independent oil & gas producer in the UK. To remind, the partners signed an agreement in December 2025 under which TotalEnergies w
Malaysia’s Yinson Production has put into operation the carbon capture and storage (CCS) unit onboard its floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel Agogo, said to be the world’s first post-combustion CO2 capture plant installed on an offshore facility. The milestone is said to be th
Norway’s Reach Subsea has secured two new call‑offs under its frame agreement with compatriot state-owned energy firm Equinor which will see its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Reach Remote 1 deployed for gas reservoir monitoring and subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services on the Norw
Oilfield services company NOV has launched a joint industry project (JIP) with Norwegian state-owned energy firm Equinor and Brazil’s oil & gas company Petrobras to work together on qualifying subsea chemical storage technology toward field deployment. The JIP is progressing an up to 200m3 subsea st
A new train is in the pipeline for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the northwest coast of Western Australia (WA), following a recent strategic partnership between Japan’s Inpex and Texas-based Formentera to accelerate development of a project by leveraging U.S. shale technology and experti
French energy giant TotalEnergies and Switzerland-headquartered sustainable construction player Holcim have inaugurated a floating solar power plant with a 31 MW capacity, located in Belgium. The plant, inaugurated on March 20, is located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabil
Saipem’s underwater inspection drone (UID) FlatFish has completed a test campaign with Brazil’s oil & gas major Petrobras as part of a contract awarded in 2023, ahead of deployment in a real offshore environment. The functional acceptance tests (FAT) were held at Saipem’s underwater drone testing fa
Brazil’s offshore vessel owners OceanPact and CBO are set to combine their businesses by incorporating CBO’s holding company into OceanPact, thereby creating a firm that will have a total fleet of 73 vessels. The partners note that the business combination is a catalyst for implementing sustainable
Three players – Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, Kongsberg Maritime (KM), a technology player, and Hanwha Drilling, a provider of offshore drilling services – have forged an alliance to develop the next generation of remote dynamic positioning (DP) technology to establish new standards for
CNOOC (Shenzhen) International Marine Clean Energy, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and CLPe, a wholly owned subsidiary of CLP Holdings, have wrapped up Hong Kong’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship-to-ship bunker operation
Everllence, formerly MAN Energy Solutions, has signed a cooperation agreement with Brazil’s Vale, a mining company and one of the country’s largest logistics operators, for the development of ethanol as a marine fuel. The partners will work on developing an advanced ethanol-powered engine, based on
