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  • New partnership to commission 1 MW electrolyzer for hydrogen valley in Sicily

    28 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Italian companies Duferco Energia and Ansaldo Green Tech have signed a strategic agreement for the supply and commissioning of a 1 MW electrolyzer, intended for green hydrogen production within the hydrogen valley project in Giammoro, in the province of Messina, Sicily.

  • Vitol rolls out FuelEU Maritime-compliant co-processed VLSFO

    29 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy

    Vitol Bunkers, a wholly-owned bunker arm of energy and commodities company Vitol, has launched new FuelEU-compliant co-processed bunkering fuel.

  • UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway in the making?

    16 April 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Offshore marine survey operations are scheduled to begin soon at what would be the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway, connecting Scotland and England. Ireland-based XOCEAN is in charge of carrying out the marine survey works for the Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) project using seven remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and two support vessels. The marine geophysical […]

  • Island Drilling sheds more light on $330 million Equinor contract win

    1 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian offshore rig operator Island Drilling has expounded on the permanent plug and abandonment (PP&A) assignment on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) it recently won with compatriot state-owned giant Equinor.

  • South Korea to map out national framework for autonomous shipping

    30 April 2025
    Authorities & Government, Automation, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Reinforcing the drive to ‘modernize’ and digitize its shipping industry, South Korea is set to establish a long-term strategy, aiming to bring autonomous vessel technology into commercial use. According to the country’s Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries (MOF), the plan encompasses a decade-long framework pertaining to the engineering of technologies deemed ‘critical’ to build autonomous […]

  • Commercialization in sight: Europe’s ocean energy pipeline to hit 165 MW in next five years

    17 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    Ocean energy continued to advance towards commercialization in 2024, with new data from Ocean Energy Europe (OEE), a network of ocean energy professionals, showing growth across tidal and wave technology pipelines. According to OEE, the pipeline of pre-commercial tidal energy projects expanded further, supported by 165 MW in capacity across 15 public-backed farms slated for […]

  • GKinetic Energy heads to France for waterpower generator testing

    8 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Ireland-headquartered GKinetic Energy will test its 3 kW waterpower generator at the Ifremer flume tank in Boulogne sur Mer, France, as part of preparations for commercial pilots scheduled for later this year. The testing campaign is supported by the RISEnergy Transnational Access (TA) programme, an EU-funded initiative aimed at accelerating renewable energy technologies. “The facility […]

  • LNG chapters on the rise in 2024 global energy tome

    1 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Offshore Energy has gone back in time to make a collection of some of the most important LNG developments and deals that hit the market in 2024.

  • Aftermath of IMO’s net-zero framework: ‘Historic’ agreement or ‘total shipwreck’?

    14 April 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    During the session held from April 7 to April 11, MEPC 83 approved the IMO Net-Zero Framework, said to be the first in the world to combine mandatory emissions limits and greenhouse gas (GHG) pricing across an entire industry sector.

  • 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’ […]

  • Europe cranks up the heat on Russia’s shadow fleet with latest sanctions package

    24 February 2025
    Authorities & Government, Regulation & Policy

    The European Council has adopted the 16th package of sanctions against Russia to ‘ramp up’ the pressure on the country’s so-called ‘shadow’ fleet as well as curb attempts to circumvent the measures. Now well into its fourth year, Russia’s aggression on Ukraine continues to disturb the balance of global geopolitics. Exploiting loopholes and opaque ownership […]

  • New Iceland Subsea Cable in Preparation

    30 January 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Telecommunication Fund of Iceland and Farice, the operator of two submarine cables to Iceland, have signed a Desk Top Study (DTS) work agreement.   The DTS work involves selecting landing sites for a new submarine cable to Europe as well as project management for a seabed survey expected to take place during 2019. No further […]

  • Equinor keeping Island Drilling, Archer, and Baker Hughes busy with multi-well P&A gigs

    28 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has awarded compatriot Island Drilling with a well plugging contract on the fields it operates on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), while Archer and Baker Hughes Norge have won contracts for full-range delivery of plugging services.

  • CNOOC to Search for Oil Offshore Iceland

    5 June 2013

    Iceland’s oil company Eykon Energy has reportedly reached an agreement with China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) to conduct joint exploration activities in the Dreki area, offshore Iceland. Eykon applied for a license in the area last year, but has asked the authorities to be given more time to find an additional participant in the licence. […]

  • 6PAC+ alliance representative: MEPC 83 is a defining moment for shipping’s future

    8 April 2025
    Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Pacific nations have reiterated that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is on the brink of making history with binding regulations to phase out fossil fuel use in global shipping.

  • CNOOC: Preparations begin for exploration in Iceland

    10 March 2014

    China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is gearing up for offshore exploration on the Icelandic Continental Shelf.

  • Iceland’s first PSV launched in Turkey

    6 March 2014

    Turkish Cemre Shipyard has launched a hull of a new platform supply vessel being built for of Fafnir Offshore, an Icelandic oil service company.

  • Iceland: Landeyjahofn Harbour Needs Dredging

    7 September 2010

    Herjolfur, the ferry between the Westman Islands and mainland Iceland, can no longer sail to the brand new, specially constructed … (icenews) [mappress] Source: icenews, September 8, 2010;

  • Iceland’s first PSV christened in Svalbard

    22 September 2014

    Fafnir Offshore’s ‘Polarsyssel’ vessel, of the Havyard 832 L WE design, was christened in Longyearbyen in Svalbard on saturday.

  • Iceland Accedes to Air Pollution Treaty

    24 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    Iceland has ratified the International Maritime Organization (IMO) treaty covering the prevention of air pollution from ships. Stefán Haukur Jóhannesson, Ambassador of Iceland to the United Kingdom, met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London, on November 22 to deposit the instruments of accession. The recent ratification brings the total number of contracting states […]

  • 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.

  • Orkney’s marine renewables campus moves to HIE ownership

    2 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has taken full ownership of the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC) in Stromness, Scotland, following the transfer of Orkney Islands Council’s (OIC) share in the joint venture (JV). According to HIE, the move comes as ORIC prepares for a second phase of development, backed by a £2.8 million funding […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]