The transition to low sulphur in fuel oil in 2020 saw only 55 cases of 0.50% compliant fuel being unavailable, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said describing the switch extremely smooth. The IMO gave the possibility for shipowners to be issued with a Fuel Oil Non Availability Report (
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Tasik Subsea DP3 dive support vessel Southern Star is the first ship in the world to receive IDM-A (Infectious Disease Mitigation – Arrangements) class notation from U.S. classification and technical advisory ABS. Following the outbreak of the worldwide pandemic, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in
Aker BP has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use the Maersk Integrator rig for production drilling on the Tambar field.
With the increasing pressure for shipowners to sharpen their environmental performance, driven by IMO 2050, regional regulations and market pull from charterers, banks and investors, the decarbonization challenge is here to stay. “This represents a whole new ball game for the industry. Optimisation
An incident on board a Seadrill-owned drillship working for Kosmos Energy in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has resulted in the death of one offshore worker.
Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has accepted the T/30P environmental plan from Beach Energy for a geophysical, geotechnical and 2D seismic survey activity in the Otway Basin. This survey should take 28 days within the period 1 February
A court in the Bahamas has decided to add Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) as a respondent to an application brought by environmental groups.
Production on the Ithaca Energy-operated platform located in the North Sea has been shut down due to a Covid-19 outbreak.
The International Chamber of Shipping is calling on governments to put seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers at the head of the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as keyworkers, to avoid a repeat of the 2020 ‘crew change crisis’. ICS is demanding that governments, who are once again r
Two Fieldwood Energy workers have been indicted for allegedly allowing crude oil spills from Gulf of Mexico platforms to avoid shutdowns.
Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are entering into a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Funded by a grant from Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Prog
Despite a massive drop in premium earnings for ships fitted with scrubbers during 2020, the scope for scrubber cancellations has been limited due to contractual obligations with shipyards and scrubber manufacturers, Gibson Shipbrokers said in its latest weekly report. This might come as a bit surpri
A former executive at Petrofac has pleaded guilty to bribery offences related to contract awards to Petrofac in UAE worth about $3.3 billion.
