
As the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry faces a critical juncture in its emissions reduction pursuit, Great Britain’s regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has pushed for a boost in investment to meet net zero aspirations, as current efforts fall short of long-term decarbonization

German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) and the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand their cooperation in the field of hydrogen safety.

Ireland-headquartered and AIM-listed United Oil & Gas has secured a license off the coast of Jamaica, which is set to lend a helping hand in unleashing the hydrocarbon potential of the firm’s offshore asset.

France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has boosted its oil and gas portfolio in African waters by securing two offshore exploration permits off the coast of Nigeria.

Hydrogen Europe Research (HER) and the Clean Hydrogen Mission (CHM) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Busan, South Korea, intending to speed up the development and uptake of integrated clean hydrogen value chains across developed and developing regions.

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has obtained a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, which will be drilled using a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor.

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has reissued the final order authorizing the construction and operation of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project Texas LNG, a subsidiary of Glenfarne Energy Transition, proposes to build in the Port of Brownsville, Texas.

Furetank has launched a new company for trading emission reductions under the FuelEU Maritime regulation and signed an agreement securing all the biogas required to operate its wholly and partly owned gas-propelled vessels trading in the EU during 2025.

Within the global gas story, many chapters are being written, including a U.S. wave of upcoming liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments, where the export boom continues to fuel new projects, as the European regasification build-out continues.

South Korean shipbuilding companies HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and HD Hyundai Mipo (HMD) have revealed plans to merge into a single entity.

VTTI, a Dutch energy infrastructure company, and Höegh Evi, a Norwegian owner and operator of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers and floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), have ticked off the first phase of the permit procedure from the list of requirements to bring their proposed new

China and Saudi Arabia intend to strengthen their collaboration in the maritime sector, especially in shipbuilding, where China holds a leading position globally.

OMV New Zealand, a subsidiary of Austria’s OMV, has received a multi-year extension of the petroleum mining permit (PMP) 38160, which encompasses an oil field that has been producing hydrocarbons since 2009 off the coast of New Zealand.

Two cable-laying vessels (CLVs) owned by Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group have begun work on two submarine power interconnections in Spain, as part of contracts together worth approximately €250 million, announced in 2022. Prysmian is in charge of the design, supply, installation and commissioni