Despite the promising progress of wind propulsion in shipping, its uptake remains hindered by regulatory barriers, technical challenges, and a lack of confidence among industry stakeholders, classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) said in a recent report.
The legal battle that may decide the fate of two of the largest undeveloped oil and gas fields off the coast of the United Kingdom (UK) is fast approaching with less than three weeks left until the set date.
Norwegian oil and gas company OKEA has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for an exploration well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.
Shelf Drilling has now received the Norwegian offshore safety regulator’s stamp of approval after the watchdog’s initial rejection of its application to obtain an acknowledgment of compliance (AoC) for one of its jack-up rigs, which is gearing up for work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) wit
In a little more than five years, renewable energy targets set for 2030 will come knocking on the door. Whether they will be reached, missed or overshot, depends on multiple factors, most of which concern policymakers and the energy sector itself. At the end of 2023, the EU increased the binding ren
UK’s energy services provider Altera Infrastructure and oil and gas company Harbour Energy have secured up to €225 million in grant funding from the EU Innovation Fund for what is said to be the first-of-its-kind large-scale solution for CO2 sequestration using shared, flexible offshore infrastructu
A court decision, which was interpreted to pose a serious threat to new and existing oil and natural gas operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with some fearing that it would have unintended consequences for the offshore wind program as well, has been replaced with a new one.
The European Commission has selected 85 net-zero projects, including those involving hydrogen and maritime, to receive €4.8 billion in grants from the Innovation Fund.
Singapore’s electricity regulator the Energy Market Authority (EMA) has given conditional approval for a project that will harness and store renewable energy from Australia and transmit it to Singapore via a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system, two months after the Australian Gove
Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser has been awarded a grant from the EU Innovation Fund of up to €135 million for the industrialization of its next-generation pressurized alkaline technology.
U.S.-headquartered TDI-Brooks is set to upgrade diesel engines on one of its research vessels to ensure compliance with the regulations of the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The 48-meter-long R/V Brooks McCall is a Jones Act-complaint multi-use vessel said to be suited for various comprehens
The Marine Energy All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been relaunched under the new UK Parliament, with Orkney and Shetland member of parliament (MP) Alistair Carmichael as chair. Carmichael is joined by Llinos Medi MP, Harriet Cross MP, and Torcuil Crichton MP as officers, representing a cros
The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has approved the construction of the Germany-wide hydrogen core network, expected to be created by 2032.
Norwegian Reach Subsea has secured funding of up to €14.3 million from the EU Innovation Fund, under the Net Zero Technologies initiative, which will be used for the scale-up of the Reach Remote project focusing on the development of advanced remote unmanned surface vessels (USVs). “This is a signif
