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  • Moore Stephens: Vessel Operating Costs Expected to Rise over Next Two Years

    31 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vessel operating costs are expected to rise by more than three per cent in both 2013 and 2014 according to a new survey by international accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens. The survey is based on responses from key players in the international shipping industry, predominantly shipowners and managers in Europe and Asia. Those responses […]

  • Britain Is Only Just Beginning to Exploit Its Vast Resources of Offshore Wind

    19 August 2016

    Below, we bring an article on the UK’s offshore wind energy status and potential, written by Simon Watson, Professor of Wind Energy at Loughborough University, and originally published by The Conversation. In 1993, nine 300kW turbines were installed on the eastern pier at Blyth Harbour, near Newcastle on England’s east coast. One can question whether this […]

  • How has going under the radar for the shipping industry backfired today?

    11 September 2020
    Human Capital, Vessels

    The shipping industry is faced with one of the greatest humanitarian crises in years, affecting over half a million people. Six months into the pandemic 300,000 seafarers are stuck at sea, some of them for 17 months, 6 months longer than allowed under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). Around 300,000 more seafarers are pending to […]

  • Grieg Star shares ‘surprising’ findings of a study involving retrofitting deep-sea ships to ammonia

    14 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Environment, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    A group of cross-industry experts, led by Grieg Star, has conducted a study involving the potential retrofitting of an open hatch vessel to run on green ammonia. Initial findings of the study said that elements perceived as challenges turned out not to be barriers or present major risks for moving forward with a retrofit project. […]

  • Steelhead LNG Names New Board Member

    19 March 2014

    Steelhead LNG Corp., a Vancouver-based Liquefied Natural Gas project development company announced that former BC Attorney General Geoff Plant has joined the company as a member of its Board of Directors. Steelhead LNG is led by an executive team that boasts more than eight decades of combined experience in the natural gas and LNG industry. […]

  • New Jersey Holds Great Future in Wind Energy (USA)

    25 December 2011

    Delaware’s flagship offshore wind project may be going dormant, but observers say offshore wind is off to a promising start in New Jersey. Legislation passed last year could make the Garden State the new leader in building the first generation of offshore wind turbines off the U.S. coast, said Matt DaPrato, an analyst at IHS […]

  • API, IAGC not happy with BOEM’s report on seismic surveys

    7 August 2017

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued the final programmatic environmental impact statement regarding the proposed geological and geophysical surveys in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. According to Earth Justice, an environmental group, the four-volume, 2592 pages, BOEM document, concluded seismic surveys for oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico […]

  • Interview: Insight into Piracy

    6 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 2014 has been a pretty eventful year with respect to pirate activities, seeing a tragic end with a crew member of a Vietnamese tanker VP Asphalt 2 being killed in a hijacking attack off the eastern coast of Malaysia in December. On the other hand, pirate suspects being taken before European courts were given compensation for […]

  • The Vision of Jan Bert Schutrops

    30 March 2015

    In 1990, Jan Bert Schutrops, president of Vopak Netherlands, started as management trainee at Royal Van Ommeren (that in 1999 merged with Royal Pakhoed to Royal Vopak) and never left. “I have worked in four countries for Vopak and was able to do a lot of different things. Every so many years, I could start […]

  • UK’s shift in net-zero policy raises red flag: Is this a godsend for people’s pockets or wishful thinking?

    22 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    A deep dive into the backlash and other prominent reactions related to the UK’s Prime Minister’s recent changes in net-zero policy.

  • VSM: ‘Excessive bureaucracy’ hurts sustainable ship recycling prospects in Germany

    1 November 2024
    Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The Association for Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (VSM)—the voice of the German maritime industry—has called on the government to review legal hurdles to (sustainable) ship recycling in Germany.

  • In focus: CO2 capture and storage – important element in the green transition

    10 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Green Marine, Technology, Transition

    As the world faces new challenges in 2023, offshore energy industries are making new plans to deliver on the net-zero target. In addition to marine energy, the fast-growing offshore wind sector is also finding its place among oil and gas players. Example number one: SSE Renewables and Equinor, the developers of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the […]

  • Sturgeon comes out against Cambo oil project as Scotland mulls joining alliance to end oil & gas use

    17 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has expressed her belief that the Cambo oil project off Shetland should not get the green light.

  • OEEC: Changing the offshore market through innovations

    11 October 2017

    The tenth edition of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) in Amsterdam RAI on Wednesday hosted an interactive panel session which focused on the most impactful innovations in offshore energy industry. Presented to its visitors under the name “Ten years of innovation, what’s next”, the technical session tried to capture the challenging processes of these […]

  • Offshore Wind China 2012 Opens Today

    30 May 2012

    The Offshore Wind China 2012 Conference and Exhibition, Asia’s largest and the world’s second largest wind power event, will take place in Shanghai between 30 May and 1 June 2012, with the aim of promoting offshore wind power development not only locally in the Shanghai area but also worldwide. The exhibition session will take place […]

  • USA to Concentrate More on Offshore Wind Than Offshore Oil

    20 December 2010

    Offshore windmills used to create energy are unfamiliar territory to most in south Louisiana. But some say the technology, which is undergoing a big push for development by the Obama administration, could be a new growth area for shipbuilding and fabrication companies. Trade associations, including the Shipbuilders Council of America, say clusters of wind turbines […]

  • Using the power of subsea engineering to tackle coronavirus

    12 June 2020
    Research & Development, Safety, Technology

    The coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted major sectors of economies worldwide and it is quite uncertain to bet on future prospects. The impact of coronavirus can be severely observed in the international sphere as no country has been untouched from the wave of this pandemic. This also added on more layer of complexity, as the world […]

  • EEC: Sustainable shipbreaking an untapped area ripe for disruption

    11 April 2023
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Transition, Vessels

    Elegant Exit Company (EEC), a sustainable ship recycling startup, is on a mission to change the ship recycling industry by converting old ships into green steel. The Drachten-based company was launched in 2020 with plans to own a fleet of end-of-life ships that will be operated until their planned recycling date.  The business strategy is […]

  • Equinor files plan for further development of North Sea field, unveils investment of over $1.1bn

    26 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Equinor and its partners have submitted a PDO for the Oseberg field and revealed plans for investing over $1.1. million in this development.

  • Pacific Drilling CEO steps down after almost a decade in position

    2 August 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling company Pacific Drilling has informed that its CEO Christian J. Beckett has stepped down from his positions as CEO and as a member of the Board to pursue other opportunities. The company, which provides ultra-deepwater drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry, announced that Paul T. Reese, the Company’s current Executive […]

  • Headway made in Bonn but all hopes rest on COP28’s shoulders to tackle emission reduction challenges

    19 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The Bonn Climate Change Conference helped lay the groundwork for the political decisions required at COP28 in Dubai at the end of the year.

  • Green corridors: can they catalyze the transition to zero-emission shipping?

    26 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Green corridors are coming forth as the central link that is expected to facilitate the shipping industry’s transition to alternative fuels and full-scale decarbonization. Several green corridors are already in the making linking ports within Europe or those connecting Europe with Asia and America. In August, the world’s two top ports, the Port of Rotterdam […]

  • New Smit LNG/LPG IGS from Alfa Laval

    10 September 2014
    Equipment

    LNG and LPG carrier tanks hold both a source of income and a potential source of danger. To avert the danger, inert gas systems (IGS) have been required on all new tankers over 20,000 dwt since 1978 — a move that has surely saved untold lives. Yet with increasing demand, tighter delivery schedules, the constant […]

  • ExxonMobil CEO: World in need of plan to address climate change alongside energy needs

    20 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    ExxonMobil is taking several steps to slash its GHG footprint and its CEO believes that oil and gas industry can help the world curb emissions.

  • LNG and dark fleet emerge as salient points of EU’s new raft of sanctions against Russia

    24 June 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    The EU has decided to hit Russia with more sanctions aimed at eating away at the country’s ability to finance its military operations in Ukraine.