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  • Biden’s energy transition might not run so smoothly after all

    24 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Vision

    Following President Trump’s effective surrender of his three-week protest of the election results on Monday by submitting to the government’s official transition to the incoming Joe Biden administration, the time has come for the new administration to set new energy transition plans into motion – but the plan might have more spanners in the wheel than originally suspected.

  • $30 billion offshore energy undertaking at stake of being thwarted as endangered sea snake slithers to mega gas project

    13 September 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Will a dusky sea snake, which has been put on the endangered list by the Australian federal government, jeopardize a project, led by Australia’s energy giant Woodside and valued at over $30 billion, to develop what is said to be the country’s largest untapped conventional gas resource?

  • Shipping Confidence Hits Highest Level Since 2008

    31 March 2014

    Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry rose to their highest level for almost six years in the three-month period to February 2014, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from international accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens. Freight rates look set to improve or maintain existing levels over the next twelve months, while an […]

  • Canada’s offshore oil & LNG with doors to wider markets safe from trade war tentacles, report finds

    2 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    With the first trade war shots fired, a new analysis has highlighted offshore oil production and liquefied natural gas (LNG), which have dipped their toes into broader market arenas, among products that can reap the benefits from the looming tariff threats, potentially paving the way for Canada to boost its economic might at a time of brewing global instability.

  • UK’s oil & gas windfall tax hike – Coup de grace or boon for North Sea jobs and upstream investment?

    5 August 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    How can the UK put all the puzzle pieces together to cultivate a sweet spot in an uncertainty-ridden backdrop of energy investment in the North Sea?

  • Germany: Future Looks Bright for Linde Group

    29 July 2011

    The technology company The Linde Group continued to achieve profitable growth in the first half of 2011. “We are well on our way,” said Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG. “We’ve seen a strengthening of demand in both our gases business and our engineering business worldwide.” Reitzle is also confident about […]

  • Three pathways to decarbonization of shipping

    16 April 2020
    Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition

    There are three potential fuel pathways toward developing zero-emission vessels and decarbonizing the future of shipping, according to ABS. The US-based classification society just released the 2020 Setting the Course to Low-Carbon Shipping — Pathways to Sustainable Shipping outlook, which maps out the path toward decarbonization goals of the global fleet. The three fuel pathways […]

  • Interview: The Way Forward after Deepwater Horizon Spill

    28 January 2015
    Business & Finance

      January 20th marked the beginning of the third phase of the multiyear trial before the New Orleans District Court to determine how much BP and other responsible parties should pay for their role in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As the end of legal saga on one of […]

  • New Tech Used in WWII Aircraft Wreck Find

    7 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    An endeavor to employ a suite of oceanographic research instruments to find downed World War II aircraft and the remains of troops listed as missing in action for nearly 70 years are the subject of a film by camera maker GoPro and the CBS. Supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, Scripps […]

  • Germany: Future Looks Bright for Linde Group

    29 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    The technology company The Linde Group continued to achieve profitable growth in the first half of 2011. “We are well on our way,” said Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG. “We’ve seen a strengthening of demand in both our gases business and our engineering business worldwide.” Reitzle is also confident about […]

  • Winds of change sweep across UK’s energy sector

    11 March 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    The UK has decided to pull out of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and prolong the windfall tax on oil and gas producers’ profits.

  • New York fires $75 billion shot for Big Oil to foot the landmark climate ‘superfund’ bill

    30 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    As the climate crisis continues to wreak havoc across the globe, New York has taken decisive action to hold fossil fuel players accountable for their pollution effects by establishing a new climate fund, described as landmark legislation to strengthen the state’s climate endeavors and environmental protection laws.

  • Sailing ocean transport re-introduced: Initiatives make way for large scale wind powered transport

    12 February 2013

    Efforts to operate wind-powered vessels as a competitive mode of transport are taken all over the world. Not only idealists, also scientists and ship owners seriously study the possibilities. The first successfully operated sailing cargo vessel is Dutch – and it doesn’t even have an engine. It is hard to beat the highly efficient Clippers […]

  • Country outlook Denmark

    26 March 2020
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks

    With WindEurope 2019 set for Kopenhagen, we take a look at the current offshore wind farm status in Denmark. In january of this year, we reported that the Government of Denmark had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with wind industry majors with the aim of strengthening and continuing the strong collaboration between the global wind […]

  • All eyes on EU as it presents Clean Industrial Deal to future-proof energy sector

    26 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The European Union has unveiled the Clean Industrial Deal, a transformational business plan outlining concrete actions to turn decarbonization into ‘a driver of growth‘ for European industries by supporting renewable energy sources. Specifically, the plan aims to lower energy prices, create ‘quality’ jobs and the ‘right’ conditions for companies to thrive, accelerating decarbonization while at […]

  • Oh, captain, (new) captain: Trump’s maritime masterstroke or navigational gamble?

    24 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks

    Among the flurries of orders issued in the first hours post-inauguration, the current President of the United States Donald Trump has positioned Louis E. Sola at the very helm of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and cast a long shadow over critical maritime issues. As disclosed, Sola was first nominated back in November 2018, which […]

  • The vision of… Ard-Jan Kooren

    10 October 2012

    Thinking outside the box. That is important to Ard-Jan Kooren, CEO of maritime service provider KOTUG. KOTUG’s history goes back more than a century. Antonie Kooren was the founder of the towage services of the Kooren-family and in 1911, the first Kooren-tugs were in operation. In 1934, Adriaan Kooren, grandfather of Ard-Jan Kooren, registered as […]

  • Ghana: Jubilee Field Production Delivers Record Cashflows to Tullow

    9 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) issues the following Interim Management Statement, for the period 1 July to 8 November 2011, in accordance with reporting requirements of the EU Transparency Directive. The Group will announce its full year Trading Statement and Operational Update on 18 January 2012. Tullow has continued its strong performance in the second half […]

  • Digital transformation ‘paramount’ for Africa to reap the benefits of oil & gas boom

    8 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Innovation, IT & Software, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Africa is lagging behind in its digital uptake, which is putting at risk its ambition to become a gas-powered economy by 2030.

  • Jindal, BRAF Announce Plans for World-Class Campus to Foster Coastal Expertise

    18 December 2013

    Governor Bobby Jindal, officials from the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), Department of Economic Development and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF) joined leaders from the City of Baton Rouge, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Louisiana State University and other coastal research institutes to unveil plans for the establishment of The Water Campus […]

  • Dutch-Chinese success story

    14 June 2013

    More and more vessels are being built abroad, not only to save on labour costs, but also on costs of building materials. Clearly a production run of similar vessels offers economies, but the Netherlands is especially known for its complex and often custom-build vessels with a high focus on quality, which is more difficult to […]

  • Bridging borders: Regulatory harmonisation

    5 January 2012

    In recent times, the attention of project developers, policy makers and energy regulators has started shifting towards the construction of (transnational) large scale far offshore wind farms. This is due to their advantages over conventional energy production facilities, being larger in scale, inducing economies of scale; offering less nuisance related to visual or noise pollution […]

  • US offshore wind opportunities in 2018

    12 April 2018

    By: Jason Deign, for New Energy Update The US offshore wind sector ended 2017 on a slightly ironic note. Plans for Cape Wind, which was supposed to have been the country’s first offshore wind farm, were finally shuttered after a long period of uncertainty.[1] But prospects for the rest of the market looked better than […]

  • Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips get their hands on total profits of more than $29 billion

    4 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    European and U.S. oil majors – the UK’s duo Shell and BP, France’s TotalEnergies, Norway’s Equinor, and Italy’s Eni alongside U.S.-based trio: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips – have posted strong sets of results even though they collected around $4.7 billion less in combined profit during the quarter, which amounts to about 29.2 billion, compared to $33.9 billion gathered in the prior quarter.

  • DredgingToday.com Podcast: Global Dredging Perspective

    17 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Welcome to the second DredgingToday.com Podcast, with our host Rosie Moth of RedMeters.com.  In this episode we will be discussing the global dredging perspective with the Secretary General of the International Association of Dredging Companies, Rene Kolman, and Technical Consultant Murray Leach. The problems that are facing dredging on a global scale, ‘environmental and sustainability issues’ as one of the major obstacles in dredging, the Jones Act in the USA, dredging regulations, etc, are just some of the topics covered in this edition of […]