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  • Innovation meets fast-moving market

    17 May 2020
    Innovation

    Scott Whyte is a geotechnical engineering consultant with global geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions provider, Fugro, and a DEng student at the University of Oxford within the Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) centre group. His joint industry consultancy and academic activities focus on the science behind designing cost-effective foundations for large-scale wind turbines with the […]

  • Is North Atlantic the next emission control area for shipping?

    14 November 2024
    Environment, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vision

    Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Germany’s ‘oldest and largest’ environmental association, is urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish an emission control area in the North Atlantic.

  • Goldman Sachs, Funds Pay $2B for Stake in Dong Energy

    29 November 2013

    In continuation of DONG Energy A/S’ company announcement of 2 October 2013, the Danish State represented by the Ministry of Finance, DONG Energy A/S, the Danish pension fund Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension (ATP), funds managed by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs through New Energy Investment S.a.r.l (Goldman Sachs funds) and the Danish Pension fund PFA […]

  • Volvo Trucks: Europe Lacks LNG Infrastructure

    1 March 2012

    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a viable lower-carbon alternative to diesel for heavy-duty long-haul trucks, but the necessary infrastructure for it in Europe is lacking. Volvo Trucks is involved in efforts to establish ‘blue corridors’ with strategically placed filling stations to make the fuel more widely available. The transport industry accounts for around 25 per […]

  • BDO: Shipping Confidence Drops as Trade Wars Intensify

    9 October 2019
    Business & Finance

    Geopolitical uncertainty contributed significantly to the decline in confidence recorded in BDO’s latest survey.

  • Ageing storage sites make British gas market more prone to price spikes

    11 July 2016

    Britain faces a growing risk of spikes in wholesale gas prices as ageing storage facilities mean increased maintenance and greater reliance on imports to meet spot demand.

  • USA: Halliburton Reports Second Quarter Results

    18 July 2011

    Halliburton announced today that net income for the second quarter of 2011 was $747 million, or $0.81 per diluted share, excluding employee separation costs of $8 million, after-tax, or $0.01 per diluted share. Reported net income for the second quarter of 2011 was $739 million, or $0.80 per diluted share. This compares to net income […]

  • Hapag-Lloyd Sets Sights on New Orders

    13 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Hapag-Lloyd eyes investments in new ships.

  • ICS: 30 Pct More Efficient Ships to Enter Market by 2030

    19 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Shipping is the only industry with a mandatory global regime in place, agreed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), to reduce its CO2 emissions, Peter Hinchliffe, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), said yesterday in his keynote speech at a conference in Liverpool, UK hosted by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change […]

  • UK: Committee Publishes Report on Future of Wave and Tidal Energy

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The UK could become a leading exporter of wave and tidal power equipment and expertise if the Government adopts a more visionary approach to developing marine renewables, according to a new report by the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. * Report: The Future of Marine Renewables in the UK * Inquiry: The Future of […]

  • Great Potential and Even Greater Challenges for Offshore Wind Power in North Sea (Germany)

    10 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      International ‘Windspeed’ study presented, together with recommended course of action If companies and wind power equipment manufacturers find favourable conditions, the North Sea could become home to offshore wind farms with a combined generating capacity as high as 135 gigawatts by the year 2030. This is the result of a study conducted as part […]

  • France: DCNS Reserves Port Space in Cherbourg for Tidal Energy Plans

    16 March 2012

    Laurent Beauvais, President of the Basse-Normandie Region and Chairman of the Ports of Normandy Authority, and Patrick Boissier, Chairman and CEO of DCNS, signed a memorandum of understanding at DCNS headquarters in Paris, in the presence of Jean-François Le Grand, President of the Manche Departmental Council and Bernard Cazeneuve, MP, Mayor of Cherbourg–Octeville and President […]

  • Save Our Seafarers Campaign Makes Significant Headway

    25 September 2012

    It is almost 18 months since the launch of the international SOS SaveOurSeafarers. As World Maritime Day approaches, SOS has issued this update to its supporters advising of campaign progress and its future objectives. To date “The campaign has made significant headway in raising public and political awareness of the human and economic cost of […]

  • OBG Report Highlights Importance of Qatar as Global LNG Supplier

    11 July 2011

    Qatar’s major domestic gas development projects will help lay the foundations for the country’s economic expansion by generating the power needed for extensive infrastructural works, according to Alex Dodds, the President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. Dodds was speaking to Oxford Business Group (OBG) as part of the research for The Report: Qatar […]

  • Moody’s: Investments of Asian E&P Companies in Mozambique LNG Are Credit Positive

    22 August 2013
    Research & Development

    Moody’s Investors Service says that the investments of Asian exploration and production (E&P) companies in a Mozambique LNG project are credit positive and will diversify the long-term production and reserves of the firms. “The Rovuma basin has a large amount of high-quality natural gas reserves, particularly in Areas 1 and 4, where dry clean gas […]

  • Unites States backs six marine energy-fishing co-location projects in the northeast

    23 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The projects were selected as part of a funding opportunity whose aim is to catalyze research for the coexistence of marine energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities.

  • Drydocks World Records High Customer Satisfaction Rating

    28 August 2013

    Drydocks World, one of the most renowned and prolific maritime service providers to the shipping, oil, gas and energy sectors announced an Overall Customer Satisfaction Rating of 96 percent received from their clients. The satisfaction questionnaire covers 29 distinct areas including Health, Safety & Environment, project management and administration, technical services, services from various trades […]

  • VULKAN Couplings Supplies MESLU Clutches for TSHD “Inai Kenanga”

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    One of the largest suction dredgers in the world, Inai Kenanga, is to be launched by Inai Kiara SDN BHD, the Malaysian shipping company. VULKAN Couplings has supplied six MESLU clutches for the shift gearboxes of the powerful sand pumps – these couplings are the largest that the company has ever built. The TSHD Inai […]

  • GL at Nor-Shipping 2009: New Designs and Options to Save Fuel Costs

    9 June 2009

    “How to make ships more efficient?” This was the key question posed today by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) at the Nor-Shipping trade fair in Oslo. At a press conference, the classification society and technical assurance and consulting company informed about its green initiatives, current market developments as well as new design and fuel-saving options. “Reducing the […]

  • Shipping’s Decarbonization Will Need Major R&D Investment

    15 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    Kirsi Tikka: Collaboration as well as sufficient investment in technology development needed to meet IMO’s targets.

  • ADNOC to increase oil production capacity to 4 mmbpd by end of 2020

    5 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Abu Dhabi’s Supreme Petroleum Council has approved ADNOC’s new integrated gas strategy and plans to increase its oil production capacity to 4 million barrels per day (mmbpd) at the end of 2020 and 5mmbpd by 2030. 

  • NGO Shipbreaking demands EU action on ship recycling amid stark reality of 2023 figures

    1 February 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is calling for the extension of the EU Ship Recycling Regulation to include ownership in addition to the flag, after releasing the latest figures on global shipbreaking practices for 2023. The data from the platform shows that out of the 446 ocean-going commercial ships and offshore units scrapped in 2023, some […]

  • UK: Offshore and Marine Industries to Benefit from Global Navigation Receiver Instrument

    12 March 2013

    A sensing instrument which can measure ocean parameters such as sea surface roughness has been developed by experts at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL). In its more familiar usage, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System – also known as GPS) pinpoints the geographic location of a user’s receiver anywhere in the world. However, in this small […]

  • Africa’s First Ever Dredging Simulator

    2 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Africa’s first ever dredging simulator was launched today in the port city of Durban, South Africa. The project represents another positive spin-off of ongoing collaboration between Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), the Transnet Maritime School of Excellence (MSoE), the Netherlands based Royal IHC and its world-renowned Training Institute. The high-tech simulator – based at the MSoE’s […]

  • Oil companies should think cooperatively, say NEA and PSA (Norway)

    11 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Technological development and knowledge sharing are crucial for conducting prudent operations and avoiding adverse environmental impacts in the northern reaches of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. “The precautionary principle is fundamental now that petroleum activities are advancing further and further north on the Norwegian Continental Shelf”, say Ellen Hambro, Director General of the Norwegian Environment Agency, […]