XOCEAN’s uncrewed surface vessel (USV) has completed the first-ever uncrewed survey of fish populations around oil platforms in the North Sea. The survey was part of a project led by the University of Aberdeen, looking at the effects of decommissioning oil and gas structures…
Fresh from losing billions of dollars from bad oil-price hedges because of Covid, many of the world’s airlines are once again trying to protect themselves from soaring fuel costs. European carriers including Lufthansa Group, Air France-KLM and Ryanair Holdings Plc have said in recent…
Morocco says the immediate impact of Algeria ending gas supplies through a pipeline is “insignificant,” but it has not said how it will make up any shortfall while it adopts long-term plans to boost renewables and import LNG. What was the deal and why did it…
Aker Offshore Wind, Aker Clean Hydrogen, and DNV have unveiled their Northern Horizons initiative. It involves use of floating offshore wind turbines to produce 10 GW of energy to power multiple floating installations in the North Sea that in turn generate green hydrogen for…
Venture Global LNG and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) have signed two 20-year contracts for the supply of a total of four million tonnes/year (mtpy) of LNG from Venture Global’s 20-million tpy Plaquemines LNG liquefaction plant, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. China International United Petroleum & Chemical Company (UNIPEC), a…
TotalEnergies, Iberdrola, and Norsk Havvind have joined forces to respond to the Norwegian authorities’ call for tenders for the development of floating and bottom-fixed wind projects for a cumulated capacity of 4.5 GW at two offshore sites in southern Norway. The consortium will leverage…
Equinor, the leading developer in floating offshore wind has designed a new floating wind concept which will enable industrial standardisation and maximise opportunities for local supply chains. Having reaffirmed its commitment to Scotland earlier this year, the offshore energy company has now revealed its…
More than 20 countries have pledged to stop funding foreign fossil fuel projects, although the impact of the deal is undermined by the absence of key countries. The pact, whose signatories include Canada and the US, isn’t binding but aims to stop foreign fossil-fuel…
Oil and gas company Providence Resources has completed the site survey at the K drilling location of the Barryroe field in the North Celtic Sea. As previously reported, Providence and Lansdowne confirmed on 26 October this year that the Marine Institute’s Celtic Voyager survey vessel…
Van Oord has contracted Huisman to supply a leg encircling crane (LEC) for its new offshore installation vessel. According to Huisman, this will be the largest LEC it has developed to date in terms of lifting capacity, boom length, installed power, and technical features….
