
Swedish company Ocean Harvesting Technologies has secured grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency to perform sea trials of its InfinityWEC wave energy device.

UAE-based ADNOC Drilling has inked a deal to acquire three new jack-up drilling rigs, as part of its fleet expansion strategy.

Under the recently opened €3 billion call for innovative next-generation low-carbon technologies as part of EU’s Innovation Fund, ocean energy technologies and projects have been specifically listed as eligible to apply for a share of €1 billion under two call topics.

The UK offshore industry will be “hit hard” by the recent tax changes on oil and gas production, which threaten to drive out investors and drive up imports, leaving consumers increasingly exposed to global shortages, UK’s representative body for the offshore energy industry Offshore Energies UK (OEU

Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck and its consortium partners have received a €7.8 million project subsidy from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to develop, test and validate the Merganser floating solar energy platform in harsh North Sea weather conditions.

Verlume, a specialist in clean energy system integration, intelligent energy management and energy storage, has appointed Robert Heron to the new role of product manager to help position the business for growth at scale.

Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) and Australian Ocean Energy Group (AOEG) have entered into formal collaboration with the joint goal to accelerate international development of the ocean energy industry.

QED Naval, a Scotland-based tidal energy company, has secured over €1.7 million of funding with 1,152 investors taking part in its Seedrs crowdfunding campaign.

Welsh company Marine Power Systems (MPS) is seeking a graduate design engineer to provide design support to its design and engineering team.

Finnish company Wello has signed a contract with Sin Mao Group to deploy a 12MW wave energy park in Taiwan.

Africa has the potential to capture as much as 10% of the global green hydrogen market, helping to create up to 3.7 million jobs and adding as much as $120 billion to the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to a new report by Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company Masdar. The landmark

Europe, China and US could decarbonise 84% of global shipping emissions and bypass the “ineffective” International Maritime Organization (IMO), a new study published by green group Transport and Environment (T&E) shows.

Westwood has found that Norway leads the way in the adoption of emission-reducing modifications for offshore rigs.

Scottish company Mocean Energy has secured patent protection for its floating hinged raft wave energy technology in China.