The Danish Energy Agency has postponed the second tender round for the award of offshore CO2 storage licenses in the North Sea. The tender was set to open on 15 August according to the executive order on CO2 storage license tenders. In line with the Agreement on the framework for CO2 storage in Denm
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has secured approval in principle (AiP) from ClassNK for its ammonia fuel supply system developed for oil tanker and containership. ClassNK said it carried out a review of a conceptual design of the system developed by SHI based on part C of it
Dry bulk owner and operator Norvic Shipping welcomed into the fleet an energy-efficient Ultramax vessel Norvic Copenhagen from Imabari Shipyard during a recent handover ceremony in Japan. The vessel was taken on charter from Japanese shipowner Fujimaru Kaiun earlier this year as the organization con
Argeo Robotics has secured a new patent from the Norwegian Industrial Patent Office (Patentstyret), this time for a subsea electromagnetic remote-sensing system for detecting buried objects below the seafloor. The patent protects Argeo’s exclusive services with the Argeo Whisper system for detecting
Norwegian offshore safety regulator has carried out an audit of Transocean Services and its processes for following up certification and recertification of drilling blowout preventers (BOPs) with control functions.
Professor Ron Loveland, Energy Advisor to the Welsh government, has shared his expert opinion on the future of marine energy sector in Wales.
Equinor has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for two wells in the Norwegian Sea.
Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use upgraded subsea compression facilities on two fields located in the Norwegian Sea. PSA reported on 9 August that it had given its approval to Equinor to use upgraded subsea compression fac
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking views from wave energy developers whose devices are capable of powering offshore aquaculture operations to better understand the potential of co-locating such projects.
Florida-based marine company Crowley and the Port of San Diego broke ground for the shoreside charging station designed to provide clean energy for the company’s forth-coming zero-emissions tugboat, eWolf. The eWolf, under continuing construction at Master Boat Builders, is a crucial component of th
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has laid out plans to carry out an in-depth survey of developers working in the tidal and wave energy sectors on behalf of Crown Estate Scotland.
Crude oil tanker company DHT Holdings has completed the installation of three exhaust gas cleaning systems in the second quarter of 2023 and now all 23 very large crude carriers (VLCCs) in the company’s fleet are scrubber-fitted. Scrubbers, also known as exhaust gas cleaning systems, allow companies
Cedar LNG, a partnership between the Haisla Nation and Canadian energy infrastructure company Pembina Pipeline, has pushed the final investment decision (FID) to the fourth quarter of 2023 due to the second front-end engineering design (FEED) process for the floating LNG vessel. Prior to this, FID f
Singapore-based tanker owner and operator Hafnia has leaped onto the methanol bandwagon with the recent order for four 49,800 deadweight dual-fuel methanol chemical IMOII Medium-Range (MR) tankers. The deal was signed with China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) together with Hafnia’s joint-v
