BOEM has made adjustments to the limit of liability for oil spills in the federal waters from offshore facilities.
The Long Beach City Council has passed a Ship It Zero Resolution, which calls on top maritime importers to adopt emissions-reducing technologies and make port calls to the San Pedro Port Complex on zero-carbon ships by 2030. This resolution brings together the city councils governing the U.S. larges
Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co., through its US-based subsidiary, has acquired an unconventional gas asset in Texas in line with its belief that natural gas and LNG will play an important role as a “pragmatic solution” for the energy transition. On 20 April, Mitsui said it completed the acquis
C-Innovation (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), has expanded into a new facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, providing an additional dock facility for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) and riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services. According to the company,
Singapore-based offshore wind vessel owner and operator, Marco Polo Marine, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Amogy, under which the New York company’s ammonia-to-power systems will be installed on Marco Polo Marine’s offshore wind vessels. The system will be installed on Marco Pol
Following the recent appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer (COO), U.S. oil and gas company Amplify Energy Corp. has named a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Senior Vice President. Amplify Energy announced on 17 April that James (Jim) Frew has joined the company as Senior Vice President a
US LNG producer Venture Global LNG is advancing works on its Plaquemines LNG export facility in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, with the raising of the roof of the second LNG storage tank. The project milestone was completed ahead of schedule and comes just seven weeks after the roof raising of tank
Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report shows that the number of offshore rigs in the United States upped the ante last week.
Jumbo-SAL-Alliance, a joint venture between Jumbo Shipping and SAL Heavy Lift, has delivered a major project involving the transport of modules for the Golden Pass LNG project in Sabine Pass, Texas. Jumbo-SAL-Alliance was awarded the project in 2021 by CCZ JV, a joint venture between Chiyoda Interna
The G7 Ministers on Climate, Energy, and Environment have called for the shipping industry to achieve GHG-zero emissions by 2050. The goal is much more ambitious that the current one set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) under which the shipping industry aims to reduce its emissions b
Energy company Idemitsu Kosan has launched a feasibility study of clean hydrogen production in Japan generated from waste, including municipal waste. The study is conducted in collaboration with US-based H-Cycle (HC), a developer of a thermal conversion process that uses heat and electricity to tran
The Northwest Seaport Alliance’s Terminal 5 welcomed MSC Brunella last week as the first vessel to plug-in into the terminal’s shore power infrastructure. This inaugural plug-in on April 10 marked the commissioning phase of the Terminal’s shore power project component, successfully utilizing clean e
