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  • In Focus: Lowering the environmental footprint of the offshore energy sector

    24 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Lowering the environmental footprint of the offshore energy sector – a key concern in the 21st century – plays a huge role in combating the climate change. Energy efficiency, carbon storage, renewable energies and alternative fuels are just some of the ways to tackle this problem. A few of the latest initiatives, like the one […]

  • Siemens Successfully Installs HelWin1 Platform (Germany)

    26 August 2013
    Storage, Technology

    Siemens has installed the HelWin1 offshore platform in the North Sea, marking the successful completion of a significant stage in German grid connection projects. HelWin1 will link the two offshore wind farms Nordsee Ost and Meerwind to the mainland. Using the Siemens technology installed on the platform, the alternating current power generated by the wind […]

  • Siemens Successfully Installs HelWin1 Platform (Germany)

    26 August 2013
    Storage, Technology

    Siemens has installed the HelWin1 offshore platform in the North Sea, marking the successful completion of a significant stage in German grid connection projects. HelWin1 will link the two offshore wind farms Nordsee Ost and Meerwind to the mainland. Using the Siemens technology installed on the platform, the alternating current power generated by the wind […]

  • Kashagan not getting back on line in 2014

    13 June 2014

    Following the start of production from the Kashagan field on 11 September 2013, the operations had to be stopped on 24 September, due to a gas leak in the onshore section of the gas pipeline running from D Island to the onshore processing facility “Bolashak”. The Department of Emergency Situations and the relevant authorities were […]

  • Chevron Marine Lubricants: Issues arising from VLSFO use have very little to do with fuel quality

    17 August 2020
    Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    The main fears around the use of the low sulphur fuel as mandated by the IMO 2020 sulphur cap that entered into force in January 2020, such as lack of availability and poor quality of new fuels did not materialize paving the way for a much smoother transition than expected. Availability concerns were quashed with […]

  • PNG LNG on Track for First Sales in 2014 (Papua New Guinea)

    24 January 2012

    Oil Search today announced its activities report for the quarter ended 31 December 2011. Highlights In early December, the operator of the PNG LNG Project, Esso Highlands Limited, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, confirmed that good progress is being made on all aspects of the Project and that it remains on track to achieve […]

  • 20,000 People Risked Their Lives in Sea Crossings

    22 August 2014

    A new UNHCR report on irregular maritime movements in South East Asia estimates that 20,000 people risked their lives in sea crossings in the first half of this year. Many were Rohingya who fled Myanmar and arrived in the region suffering the effects of malnutrition and abuse during the journey. Several hundred people were also […]

  • MSC urged to align operations with global standards amid environmental violations

    13 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Regulation & Policy

    One of the world’s largest container shipping companies, Switzerland’s Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has been put under the spotlight for its “substandard and hazardous” dismantling of obsolete vessels on tidal beaches in South Asia, the Belgium-based NGO Shipbreaking Platform has stressed. Although the Swiss giant has faced criticism for breaching international environmental and labor rights […]

  • Shell doubles profit in 2022 to record-breaking $40 billion

    2 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Shell recorded the highest-ever profit of nearly $40 billion in 2022, which has come under fire from NGOs and environmentalists.

  • North Sea gas supports both energy security and net-zero goals, says UK regulator

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

    North Sea Transition Authority’s new analysis shows that domestically produced gas is significantly cleaner than the imported LNG.

  • America and UK put two Russian oil majors on blacklist, as US sanctions spree spreads to 183 ‘shadow fleet’ vessels

    13 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The latest raft of sanctions, which comes from the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (UK), targets Russia’s energy sector by focusing on two giant Russian oil producers alongside means of enabling crude oil production and exports.

  • Interview: Hydrogen Is the Ideal Zero-Emissions Fuel

    8 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    Traver Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of Joi Scientific, speaks on the potential of hydrogen to be the fuel of the future.

  • Interview: GTT CEO sees strong demand for LNG carriers, FSRUs

    18 June 2015

    France’s Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), an engineering company specialized in LNG containment systems for marine applications and onshore terminals, saw a record order intake last year, continuing into the first quarter of 2015. GTT secured 47 new orders during 2014, the highest number in ten years. These orders included 10 ice-breaking LNG carriers, 3 FSRUs, […]

  • Interview: GTT CEO sees strong demand for LNG carriers, FSRUs

    18 June 2015

    France’s Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), an engineering company specialized in LNG containment systems for marine applications and onshore terminals, saw a record order intake last year, continuing into the first quarter of 2015. GTT secured 47 new orders during 2014, the highest number in ten years. These orders included 10 ice-breaking LNG carriers, 3 FSRUs, […]

  • Noble-Diamond Offshore merger process is off to a good start: Will it prompt further rig market consolidation moves?

    26 July 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    With two of the world’s top five floating rig contractors merging into one, the market consolidation trend is ripe for further such moves, bringing the possibility of transformation endeavors in existing business models and a potential shift in offshore rig supply and demand dynamics.

  • Oil & gas with LNG as centrepiece getting a $40 billion slice of Shell’s investment pie

    15 June 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Shell has unveiled plans to spend around $40 billion in its Integrated Gas and Upstream businesses, as it believes that oil and gas will remain important players on the energy stage.

  • Here’s what the industry says about Shell’s oil discovery in Namibia

    9 February 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Here’s what the industry says about Shell’s oil discovery in Namibia

  • Net zero quest: Weaning off oil & gas or undermining the world’s energy security backbone?

    25 November 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    After decarbonization pledges entered the scene, climate change challenges have fanned the transformation flames, taking the energy industry’s transition to other power sources to a whole new level.

  • The world to run out of oil supply to meet demand unless exploration speeds up, Rystad reports

    10 December 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The world is on track to run out of sufficient oil supplies to meet its needs through 2050 unless exploration speeds up, Rystad Energy reveals.

  • Inpex’s agreement with Indonesia paves way for revised Abadi plan submission

    17 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Japan’s Inpex has signed a Heads of Agreement with Indonesian authorities on behalf of the contractors with the endorsement of Shell on the basic principles regarding a revised Plan of Development (POD) for the Abadi LNG Project.

  • In focus: Global innovations and collaborations take the wheel of energy transition

    24 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Storage, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    The direction of the global transition to clean energy is getting more refined each week, as more of the world’s energy majors start investing in innovation and collaboration to shift energy production away from GHG-heavy sources.

  • Shell axes 6,500 jobs, slashes capex

    30 July 2015

    Oil and gas giant Shell has warned of capital expenditure and workforce cuts due to low oil price environment.  According to the company, operating costs are expected to fall by over $4 billion, or around 10%, in 2015, as its sustainable cost reduction programmes gather pace. “We plan to reduce costs further in 2016,” said […]

  • Sweden: New Technology Multiplies Marine Energy Potential

    2 May 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    New technology for harvesting energy from low velocity ocean and tidal currents multiplies the potential for marine energy. Written by Anders Jansson, CEO, Minesto  Marine energy – for instance energy from tidal and ocean currents – is the ‘best of the best’ amongst green energy sources: it has the greatest potential (in theory, the planet’s […]

  • Fossil fuels are here to stay just like their greener brethren

    2 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Transition

    The wheels of the global energy mix continue to turn, making changes to the fossil fuel-dominated scenery more visible with new pathways being forged to push decarbonization forward and accommodate emerging energy supply sectors. Regardless, the previous year still brought multiple updates on steps the oil and gas industry took to scale up the production ante, including further market consolidation moves.

  • TotalEnergies, Shell, BP, and Equinor to assist in tackling energy access woes with $500M pledge

    15 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Four energy giants – France’s TotalEnergies, Norway’s Equinor, and the UK-headquartered Shell and BP – have confirmed their plans to pool resources to help support access to energy with a $500 million joint investment commitment.