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  • Iceland Calls for Offshore Exploration Bids

    4 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    The National Energy Authority of Iceland (NEA), yesterday, announced the second Licensing Round for hydrocarbon exploration and production licences on the Icelandic Continental Shelf. The offer will be open from October 3, 2011 until April 2, 2011. The blocks on offer in the Second Licensing Round are located in the Dreki Area, northeast of Iceland, […]

  • Video: Cement Carrier’s Hull Ruptured in Iceland Grounding

    7 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Cement carrier Fjordvik suffers hull rupture after grounding at the entrance to Iceland’s Helguvik harbour.

  • Chinese company optimistic about exploration off Iceland

    7 October 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Iceland is keeping its fingers crossed that a Chinese oil company might turn the island nation into an oil producing one. It gave an offshore exploration permission to a consortium led by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) back in 2014. The license is located in the Dreki area, which is one of the two […]

  • FuelEU implementation to be postponed in Norway and Iceland

    30 December 2024
    Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The FuelEU Maritime regulation, set to enter force January 1, 2025, will face delays in its application to Norway and Iceland due to its postponed incorporation into the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, the UK-based classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR) revealed. The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) elaborated that this delay occurred due to the ‘convoluted’ […]

  • Iceland Underlain by Continental Crust, Study Shows

    13 April 2015
    Research & Development

    An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust.  The team found that the accepted theory, that Iceland consists of very thick oceanic crust, generated by the interaction between the ocean-ridge seafloor and a mantle plume, is incorrect. In the report, maps of […]

  • MMT in UK-Iceland Link Route Survey

    15 June 2015
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for the world’s longest HVDC route survey for the UK-Iceland Interconnector by Atlantic Superconnection Corporation (ASC). MMT will provide bathymetric and geophysical mapping along the entire route corridor, between Iceland to England, the company said. MMT and Reach Subsea have mobilized the Surveyor Interceptor ROV onboard Stril Explorer […]

  • Flotte Hamburg trialling HVO 100 fuel on course for climate neutrality

    31 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Flotte Hamburg (Hamburg Fleet), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hamburg Port Authority, has decided to trial the use of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO 100) as part of its decarbonization strategy.

  • Scottish anger over Iceland’s increased TAC

    21 December 2010

    United Kingdom: Scottish Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead has attacked Iceland’s decision to again establish a unilateral mackerel quota.For 2011, the country has boosted its catch proposals from 130,000 tonnes to 147,000 tonnes. Iceland and the Faroe Islands are both guilty of recently walking away from negotiations with the European Union (EU) and Norway on a […]

  • VIDEO: Reykjavik Harbour Dredging (Iceland)

    22 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    This video shows the Reykjavik harbour dredging project. Reykjavík has two seaports, the old harbour near the city centre which is mainly used by fishermen and cruise ships and Sundahöfn in the east city which is the largest cargo port in the country. [mappress] Dredging Today Staff, March 22, 2013

  • Iceland Bans Use of HFO in Its Waters

    10 December 2019
    Rules & Regulation

    Iceland is pushing forward with its efforts to curb sulphur emissions in its waters.

  • Grounded Cargo Ship Refloated off Iceland

    8 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Cyprus-flagged general cargo ship  Samskip Akrafell that ran aground on Saturday, September 6 off the east coast of Iceland was refloated at around midnight on Sunday, according to Icelandic Coast Guard. No spill was reported and the crew is safe, based on the latest reports from the Coast Guard. The grounding occurred when the vessel’s engine […]

  • Iceland: Samskip Acquires Two Container Vessels

    23 April 2012
    Business & Finance

      Samskip has acquired the container vessels Arnarfell and Helgafell, both of which have been employed by the company on the route between Iceland and Europe since early 2005. Samskip has been chartering the vessels since they were delivered, as new builds, seven years ago. From the beginning they have proved to be very reliable […]

  • Faroe Petroleum Enters into Iceland’s Offshore Sector

    4 December 2012

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, has announced provisional exploration licence awards in the Dreki area on the Icelandic Continental Shelf in the Icelandic 2nd Licensing Round. The licences are extensive, encompassing seven licence blocks located […]

  • EU considers blocking Icelandic boats in fish row

    14 December 2010

    The EU’s fisheries chief is considering blocking Icelandic fishing vessels from landing some catches in European Union ports in a row over mackerel that threatens Iceland’s bid to join the bloc, an EU source said.

  • Iceland: Three Applications in 2nd Licensing Round

    3 April 2012

    The National Energy Authority Iceland announces that it has received three applications in the second licensing round for exploration and production of hydrocarbons on the Icelandic continental shelf. The companies that have submitted the applications are: Eykon (unregistered Icelandic company); Faroe Petroleum and Íslenskt kolvetni ehf.;Valiant Petroleum and Kolvetni ehf The National Energy Authority (NEA) […]

  • Icelandic whalers await quota decision

    24 April 2007

    The four ageing steamships lined up by the quay at Reykjavik harbour don’t look like anything special. But they are among the last survivors of an industry which was once worth huge amounts of money to nations like the US and Britain – and which brought some of the largest animals on the planet close […]

  • EMSC Records Subsea Earthquakes Offshore Iceland

    7 October 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      The Reykjanes Ridge, the part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that rises up to the ocean surface to the southwest of Iceland, has been hit by … By Mark Dunphy (irishweatheronline) [mappress] Source: irishweatheronline, October 07 , 2011;

  • Celtic Norse Cable Branches to Scotland and Iceland

    1 November 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Celtic Norse fibre optic cable between Norway and Ireland will be partnered by Vodafone Iceland to develop a branch into Iceland. It is also investigating the opportunity to develop a branch into Scotland, initially with the government’s infrastructure body, the Scottish Futures Trust and Host in Scotland, the datacenter umbrella body which it sponsors. Celtic […]

  • HGK Shipping and Wattlab pioneer hybrid solar-powered inland shipping vessel

    8 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Innovation, Technology, Vessels

    Inland waterway shipping company HGK Shipping has joined forces with the Dutch maritime solar specialist Wattlab for what is claimed to be the world’s first hybrid solar-powered inland shipping vessel.

  • Dreki Area Research Results Presented in Reykjavík, Iceland

    31 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen presented important new research results in the Dreki Area at the 30th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Reykjavík. Data was acquired from both the Icelandic and Norwegian sides of the ridge, located offshore the north-eastern coast of Iceland. The Dreki Area is a part of […]

  • NextGeo bags interconnector, offshore wind cable route survey contracts with Prysmian

    30 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Prysmian has awarded two contracts to Next Geosolutions (NextGeo), one of which is in the Dutch offshore wind market, where NextGeo will carry out export cable route surveys for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore wind sites. The second contract NextGeo secured with Prysmian is for the Bay of Biscay interconnection project, an […]

  • GL’s FutureShip Cooperates with Iceland-based Marorka

    8 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    A cooperation between two leading energy efficiency improvers yields new potential to reduce emissions for shipowners around the world. At a press conference in Singapore, FutureShip announced its cooperation with Iceland-based Marorka. Together, the two companies will integrate each other’s product portfolios in the field of fuel efficiency, energy management and related consulting. The announcement […]

  • bremenports to Develop New Deep-Water Port in Iceland

    12 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    bremenports, Icelandic partners join in a project to develop a deep-water port at Finnafjord.

  • Gasum conducts 1st LNG bunkering operation in Iceland

    27 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Nordic energy company Gasum has carried out the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering operation in the port of Reykjavik, Iceland. 

  • Iceland Needs UK Financial Support for Subsea Cable Project

    29 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    A subsea cable project linking the UK with Iceland needs financial support from the British government, reports The Guardian. Iceland has the cheapest electricity prices in Europe because of the abundance of geothermal energy, wind and hydropower, and it is seeking a way to exploit these resources. Olafur Grimsson, Iceland’s president, is expected to call […]