
After nearly a year serving as acting director, Jennifer Garson has been named the official director of the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) at the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Finnish technology company Wärtsilä has developed a dedicated fuel supply system for methanol, MethanolPac, as interest grows in the methanol pathway to decarbonisation.

The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) and German liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd have signed a strategic partnership agreement committing to cooperate on efforts contributing to maritime decarbonisation.

Equinor has secured a permit from the country’s authorities for the drilling of another wildcat well, located in the North Sea off Norway.

DOE has issued export licenses to the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi LNG to increase international LNG exports amidst energy shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) is supporting the classification and construction of two 40,000 cbm LPG carriers that will be ‘ammonia prepared’.

Talos is hoping to find anchor partners after executing the lease for “the first-ever major offshore” CCS site in the U.S.

Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has been selected from 600 companies to appear at the forthcoming Sweden Sustaintech Venture Day, established to support the scale-up of sustainable businesses.

Swiss energy storage solutions provider Leclanché has obtained recertification from classification societies DNV and Lloyd’s Register for its Marine Rack System (MRS-2) operating on the 65 Ah lithium-ion pouch cells.

IOG has achieved the first gas from another field which is part of its Saturn Banks Project – Phase 1, located in the UK North Sea.

Claxton, Acteon’s drilling and decommissioning segment, has inked a deal with Oceaneering to acquire its decom personnel and assets.

Free shore-based power is available at Maaskade in Rotterdam for large inland vessels that participate in a trial with shore-based power from a battery system, the Port of Rotterdam said.

Representatives of the global shipping industry, supported by governments, have laid out proposals on how a planned global R&D fund can be tailored to support developing economies.

Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started reviewing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) for nine offshore wind projects totaling 9.1 GW in capacity, with more than half of the nine projects led by European developers. EPA is holding preliminary EIA review meetings for the projec