The industry needs to start shifting its focus from wind farms to energy farms as we have limited space which we need to make use of in an efficient way. A synergy of offshore wind and floating solar is the way to go. “If you only fill 20% of wind farm space with floating solar, […]
A couple of days after news about a charter of a converted, battery-powered vessel to boost its subsea offering, DeepOcean announced it was acquiring digital transformation company Btwn AS as part of its ambition to grow its offering within digitalization and automation of subsea operations. Btwn –
Hong Kong-based dry bulk vessel owner and operator Pacific Basin Shipping Limited has established a dedicated board-level Sustainability Committee to better align its business strategy to sustainability targets.
Hydrogen, deemed as a connector for offshore energy markets, is yet to play a very important role, especially in hard-to-abate sectors. The energy transition and especially the hydrogen transition can be built efficiently, faster, cheaper, and with fewer emissions if we build it on existing knowledg
U.S.-based developer of subsea autonomous robotic systems and software Nauticus Robotics has secured an investment before the close of 2023 said to have eliminated many of the dilutive warrants and ratchet provisions of the original de-SPAC financing in the process. The new investment is the first t
Canadian coffee roaster Café William revealed that its first cargo sailboat set sail from the port of Santa Marta in Colombia on December 18, bound for North America.
The offshore wind industry has faced significant headwinds in the past couple of years, with most of the negative effects tracing their origin back to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical turmoil caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This has led to supply chain instabili
To combat climate change, the energy mix must shift from a mix that is dominated by fossil fuels, oil & gas, coal, to an energy mix that depends more on clean energy production methods. The good thing is that everyone is committed to achieving this goal. The challenge that comes with this is that a
Elmed, set to become the first direct current (DC) connection between Europe and North Africa, has secured €45 million in funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The €921 million project concerns the implementation of an HVDC link interconnecting Tunisia and Italy across the Strait of Sicil
Tidal energy has the potential to provide 11.5 GW to the UK energy system, 11% of the UK’s electricity demand, and tidal stream projects could contribute up to £17 billion to the UK economy by 2050, according to Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Imperial College London (ICL). In 2022, ORE
Norwegian company Ocean Sun and its partners have launched an offshore floating solar demonstrator in La Palma, Spain. The BOOST (Bringing Offshore Ocean Sun to the global market) floating solar demonstrator uses Ocean Sun’s patented floating solar photovoltaics (FPV) technology and marks the final
The Viking Link electricity interconnector between the UK and Denmark has commenced operations, now transporting power between the two countries. Deemed the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector, the £1.7 billion Viking Link started commercial operations on December 29, 2023. The link has
UK-headquartered Europa Oil & Gas has entered into a license offshore Equatorial Guinea with the acquisition of an equity interest in Antler Global. Europa Oil & Gas has acquired a 42.9% equity interest in Antler Global which holds an 80% working interest in the recently acquired and highly prospect
PGNiG Upstream Norway (PUN), part of the ORLEN Group, has signed an agreement with Wintershall Dea Norge for the swap of interests in upstream assets in Norway, a transaction that will increase PUN’s recoverable reserves of natural gas by more than 0.4 billion cubic meters. As part of the agreement,
