The US-based environmental organization Pacific Environment has released a new report that lays out the case for why the International Maritime Organization (IMO) should immediately ban scrubber discharge into the marine environment.
Swedish e-fuel plant developer Liquid Wind has received an environmental permit from the Land and Environmental Court in Umeå for its third large-scale e-fuel production facility in Sweden, FlagshipTHREE.
The U.S. maritime infrastructure company Seapath and its joint venture (JV) partner Pilot LNG have obtained environmental permits for the first dedicated LNG bunkering facility in the U.S. Gulf Coast – the Galveston LNG Bunker Port (GLBP).
The Danish Energy Agency has granted permission to Nord Stream 2 AG to preserve the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea that suffered damage in September 2022 following an explosion. The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines run from Vyborg, Russia, to Lubmin near Greifswald, Germany, and c
With 14 multibillion-dollar projects lined up on the LNG export menu, America seems poised to reach the $1.3 trillion gross domestic product (GDP) promise spotlighted in a recent S&P Global study, making a strong case for an LNG boom.
Price volatility, rise in costs, climate change, energy transition agendas, rising power demand, and emerging technologies and innovations, including market evolution, automation, and progress in unleashing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), have also played their part in shrinking the jo
Researchers from the Swedish KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) have created a model to estimate the speed and extent of slime accumulation aiming to help ship operators schedule hull cleaning at ‘optimal’ times and save on fuel consumption costs. According to Cornelius Wittig, a PhD student in
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Innovation in wind energy has been one of the main pillars driving the upscale of the sector, enabling better components, larger and stronger turbines, faster and more cost-effective logistics, but what about its integration into tenders? Innovative approaches in tender designs can have a major impa
An array of measures focused on efficiency needs to be applied to the existing global fleet in order for the maritime industry to minimize the amount of alternative fuels required and, thereby, cut the overall cost of the energy transition, a new paper from the Athens-based non-profit organization M
Energy islands are no longer being considered in the Netherlands. Instead, the focus has been shifted to offshore energy hubs and interconnectors. With rising (cyber)security concerns as a result of a number of recent incidents in European waters, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war, diversification o
U.S.-headquartered rig technologies and drilling solutions player Helmerich & Payne (H&P) has wrapped up its business combination with KCA Deutag.
Relying only on renewable energy targets and expecting the industry and economic growth would follow “does not work”, Mark van Stiphout, Deputy Head of Unit for Research, Innovation, Competitiveness and Digitalisation at European Commission’s DG Energy, said during a panel session about green growth
The batch of new projects, which are expected to reach the EPC stage this year, is anticipated to lead to awards worth billions of dollars for jobs related to associated subsea equipment, offshore platforms, floating production units, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) equipment and facilities, based o
