Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from October 16 – 22, 2017.
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 16 – October 22). Solstad Farstad has agreed to sell its 50% of the shares in the 50/50 owned joint venture company Normand Oceanic AS to Subsea 7. Normand Oceanic is the vessel owning entity
Egypt is looking to secure 12 cargoes of liquefied natural gas for delivery during the first quarter of next year.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Federal Transport Authority (FTA) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have agreed to work together to tackle abandonment cases in UAE waters. FTA and ITF officials met this week to discuss the increasing number of abandonment cases faced by the UA
A critically injured crewman died on board the bulk carrier MV Grand Amanda off South Africa on October 19, the country’s National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) informed. Geoff McGregor, NSRI East London station commander, said that NSRI was alerted by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) of
Despite the downturn in the global oil and gas price, exploration, development, and production continues across Africa. Energy ministers, African oil company CEOs and main private sector o&g organizations on the continent will address current and future market conditions and prospects during the 2nd
Some 124 ships out of 227 ships broken in the third quarter of 2017 ended up on beaches in South Asia for dirty and dangerous breaking, the latest report from NGO Shipbreaking Platform shows. A total of 42 ships were sent for demolition to Turkey, 35 to China, and 26 were scrapped in the rest of [&h
On October 17, AIDAcara embarked from Hamburg on AIDA Cruises’ very first world cruise. The 116-day cruise around the world will take the ship to 41 ports in 23 countries on five continents, until February 10, 2018. Highlights of the journey are, amongst others, Easter Island, New Zealand and Austra
While gas markets are currently well supplied, the transformation of natural gas markets from regional systems to more globalized and interdependent markets is creating new security challenges, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest assessment of global gas security. The IEA’s second
Greenhouse gas emissions from three ship types – containerships, bulkers and tankers – could be reduced by a third, on average, by reducing their speed, according to a new study that will be presented to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) next week. The cumulative savings from reducing th
Ophir Energy, a company developing the Fortuna FLNG project in the Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea, is expanding its foothold in the West African country. The company has this week signed a new production sharing agreement for Block EG-24 offshore Rio Muni, Equatorial Guinea. According to the Eq
Ghana and Ivory Coast have committed to ensure that the recent ruling by an international court on the maritime dispute between the two nations be smoothly implemented. To help achieve the implementation of the court ruling, the two countries have established a joint committee Joint Committee for th
