
EnQuest has received approval from the UK authorities for its decommissioning programme for the Heather topsides in the UK North Sea.

Germany-based green hydrogen production company Hy2gen and Swiss commodity trader Trafigura have joined forces on a study aimed at quantifying the needs of the shipping industry for green ammonia as the industry transitions to low and zero carbon maritime fuels.

Hydrogen-based propulsion systems, electric engines and battery technologies are still years away from being operationally effective in the offshore energy support vessel (OESV) sector. So what can OESV operators do to meet the growing demand for lower emissions today? According to Seacat Services (

South Korean shipbuilding giant Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) has received three orders for the construction of a total of seven LNG carriers.

Global shipping has announced a cross-industry event, to be held during COP26, bringing together leaders in shipping, energy, politics and finance to discuss maritime decarbonisation efforts.

Germany’s Port of Emden is looking to make its harbor tours CO2-neutral in the future as it will receive a new, methanol-powered harbor boat.

Environmental organization One Earth – One Ocean (oeoo), with the support of building materials group Holcim Ltd., has launched the Circular Explorer, a purely solar-powered catamaran built to collect trash from the water.

Stena RoRo has signed an agreement with China’s CMI Jinling (Weihai) to order an LNG-powered E-Flexer roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) vessel that will be chartered out to Marine Atlantic, a Canadian federal Crown corporation.

U.S. oil and gas company Hess Corporation has outperformed its five-year targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and set new targets for 2025.

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) in the UK Parliament has launched a new inquiry in an effort to look at how the shipping and aviation sectors can best achieve net-zero emissions.

Swiss shipping major MSC Group and German dry bulk shipping company have become the newest members of the Methanol Institute (MI).

Activists have occupied a UK government building as part of a protest against the approval of Siccar Point’s Cambo offshore project.

Carbon recycled methane produced by methanation technology can be recognized as zero-emission ship fuel, the Ship Carbon Recycling Working Group (WG) of Japan’s Carbon Capture & Reuse (CCR) Study Group has confirmed.

Two Norway-based companies have launched a joint venture to fill an existing gap in the ammonia fuel value chain by developing ammonia ship bunkering infrastructure technology, products and services.