Following the IMO Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 12) session, bunker ships certified as oil tankers are set to be permitted to carry biofuel blends containing up to 30% biofuel. As informed, the PPR session was held in London from January 27 to 31, 2025, featuring discussion
The Welsh Government has invested £8 million (around $9,9 million) as an equity stake in the Morlais tidal energy project, set to be the largest tidal scheme in Europe, to support its expansion and strengthen grid connections. Menter Môn, the social enterprise behind Morlais, is developing the site
A global scrubber ban seems to be a long way off for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) following the twelfth session of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 12) held in London from January 27 to 31, 2025.
Guyana’s Office of the Prime Minister has put its stamp of approval on planned budgetary allocations of $141.45 billion, which is anticipated to lend a helping hand in finishing important projects. As a result, this amount encapsulates a $51.2 billion investment to bolster the country’s flagship gas
Which side will come on top is not yet clear, but it is unlikely that either will throw in the towel at this late stage in the UK’s oil and gas saga without a fight.
The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has shared details of several ‘transformative waterborne projects’ that have moved from the R&D phase to a successful scale-up stage.
Despite ongoing concerns over unsafe and environmentally damaging shipbreaking practices, in 2024, 80% of the global vessel tonnage scrapped—totaling 255 out of 409 dismantled ships—was broken under substandard conditions on the beaches of South Asia, Belgian NGO Shipbreaking Platform has found. Not
Luxembourg-based shipping group CLdN has launched a new pooling service to enable potential partners comply with more stringent EU environmental norms.
The Greenlink interconnector linking the electricity grids of Ireland and Great Britain has officially entered commercial operation, following more than three years of construction. The start of commercial operations took place on January 29 and was announced by James O’Reilly, Chief Executive Offic
The government of Denmark has introduced new initiatives to support the country’s emerging hydrogen market with billion-scale (DKK) funding and committed to establishing a Danish-German hydrogen pipeline by 2030. The government announced the new initiatives for hydrogen as well as offshore wind mark
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted a drilling permit to Norwegian oil & gas player Vår Energi for another wildcat well in the North Sea. The permit is for wellbore 7/1-4 S in production license 1090, in which Vår Energi holds a 50% operating stake, with partners Petoro and Aker BP
To help decarbonize the European Union (EU) industry, the European Commission will allocate over €250 million in grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to 21 hydrogen infrastructure development studies.
Since around 1,500 wells will be due for decommissioning in the UKCS between 2026 and 2030, the UK regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) said that this represents an opportunity for operators to test and adopt new well plugging and abandonment (P&A) technologies to cut costs and improve ef
A high greenhouse gas (GHG) price coupled with targeted subsidies for e-fuels have shown to be “essential” for mending the competitiveness gap between zero-emission fuels such as green ammonia and other early compliance options like liquefied natural gas (LNG), biofuels and carbon capture and storag
