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  • Sale of 504 MW interconnector between Ireland and Great Britain valued at over €1 billion

    17 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vision

    Partners Group, acting on behalf of its clients, has agreed to sell the 504 MW Greenlink subsea electricity interconnector linking Great Britain and Ireland to Baltic Cable AB and Equitix, valuing the project at an enterprise value of over €1 billion. Partners Group acquired a controlling stake in Greenlink in 2019 before taking full ownership […]

  • Icelandic-German collab to convert emissions into green methanol for ships

    12 April 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Transition

    Icelandic energy company Landsvirkjun and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to jointly explore the possibility of capturing and utilising carbon emissions that will be used to produce green methanol for ships.

  • New talks with Iceland to resolve ‘mackerel wars’ fishing dispute

    24 September 2010

    THE Scottish Government has reopened talks with Iceland in an effort to resolve a bitter fishing row being dubbed the “mackerel wars”, it was confirmed today.

  • Faroe Provisionally Awarded New Licences in Dreki Area Off Iceland

    4 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    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, announces 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 to […]

  • Iceland Plans Fuel Oil Ban to Lower Emissions in Its Waters

    11 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    Iceland is looking to ban the use of fuel oil with more than 0.1% sulphur content in the country’s waters.

  • Journey from oil & gas to other markets: Malaysian firm buys cable laying barge

    16 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Keyfield International, a Malaysian provider of offshore accommodation vessels to the oil & gas industry, is making its way into the cable laying business with the acquisition of a 98-meter-long cable laying barge. Keyfield Ventures (Labuan) Limited (KVL), a newly incorporated 100%-owned subsidiary of Keyfield, has entered into a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to acquire a […]

  • ORPC files draft license for Alaska tidal energy project

    24 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Technology

    U.S.-based Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) has submitted a draft pilot license application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its East Foreland Tidal Energy Project in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The site has been identified as having the highest tidal energy potential in the U.S. Backed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water […]

  • GEOMAR Uses New Methods to Date Lava Flows Off Iceland

    6 April 2016
    Research & Development

    Scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel trying to understand how the Earth’s surface was formed have used new technology to date lava flows at the North Kolbeinsey Ridge about 500 kilometers north of Iceland. They found evidence of large, deep-sea volcanic eruptions, which probably formed almost half of the Earth’s crust. […]

  • Vos Prodect Delivers Cable Protection Systems for Submarine Cable in Iceland

    24 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Vos Prodect Innovations announces the delivery of cable protection systems for the submarine power cable project in Iceland, between the Mainland and Vestmannaeyjar island. Landsnet hf, who operates Iceland’s electricity transmission grid, has decided to use the well-known cable protection systems of Vos Prodect for the both shore-end landings of the power cable. Due to […]

  • JMU hands over new eco-conscious 158,954 dwt Suezmax tanker

    16 April 2025
    Vessels

    Yokohama-based shipbuilding major Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) has handed over an environmentally friendly 158,954 dwt Suezmax tanker to Marshall Islands-headquartered Ambroisie Shipping. As informed, the vessel, christened as Aesop, was delivered on April 4 at the shipbuilder’s Tsu shipyard, located in Mie prefecture. The Bahamas-flagged newbuild boasts a length of 274.3 meters, a breadth […]

  • HAVYARD Builds Iceland’s First PSV

    21 March 2013

    Yesterday, at the annual Fosnavåg Shippingklubb Cod Dinner, the Foreign Minister of Iceland, Dr. Össur Skarphéðinsson announced that FAFNIR OFFSHORE, an Icelandic oil service company, had contracted HAVYARD GROUP to build and deliver Iceland’s first platform supply vessel. The Foreign Minister stated that Iceland is ready to embrace the opportunities and meet the challenges being […]

  • Eimskip Shuffles Lines

    27 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    ​Icelandic shipping and logistics provider Eimskip has decided to combine its Green and Red Lines in the company’s sailing schedule as of mid-February. The Green Line has served between Iceland and North America with a port call in Sortland and in Norway. Containers with origin in Europe and Scandinavia have been transshipped to the Green Line […]

  • EGS vessel set for cable route probe off Ireland

    3 September 2020
    Infrastructure, Technology, Vessels

    Offshore surveyor EGS will conduct a marine route survey for a proposed new submarine communications cable between Ireland and Iceland. In 2019, the Telecommunication Fund of Iceland and Farice ehf, the operator of two submarine cables to Iceland, signed a DTS work agreement. The deal involved selecting new cable landing sites to Europe as well […]

  • Iceland Boat-builder Seigla Ehf Delivers Largest Vacuum Infused Fishing Vessel

    21 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    The largest vacuum infused fishing vessel in the world, named the S-70 Saga K, has been unveiled in Norway. The vessel, which accounts for the largest new build so far, has been delivered on December 16, 2011 by the boatbuilder Seigla Ehf to Eskøy AS in Tromsø. The S-70 Saga K, 14.98 meters long and […]

  • Samskip Against Eimskip-Royal Arctic Line Cooperation

    28 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Samskip appeals the decision of the Icelandic Competition Authority regarding Eimskip-RAL VSA.

  • Spectrum Releases Details of 2D Multi-Client Seismic Data Offshore Iceland

    21 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Multi-Client seismic specialists, Spectrum, have released details of over 10,000 km of 2D Multi-Client seismic data located over the Dreki/Jan Mayen Ridge (JMR) area offshore the north-eastern coast of Iceland. These datasets are situated within the acreage being offered by the National Energy Authority of Iceland as part of the Second Licensing Round for hydrocarbon […]

  • Havyard Group to Build Iceland’s First Platform Supply Vessel

    21 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    At the annual Fosnavåg Shippingklubb Cod Dinner, held on March 20, the Foreign Minister of Iceland, Dr. Össur Skarphéðinsson announced that Fafnir Offshore, an Icelandic oil service company, had contracted Havyard Group to build and deliver Iceland’s first platform supply vessel. The Foreign Minister stated that Iceland is ready to embrace the opportunities and meet […]

  • PHOTO: Jan de Nul Wraps Up Cable Repair Off Iceland

    3 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Jan de Nul has completed the cable repair job between Westman Island and the main land of Iceland in less than one month, the company informed through social media. The company was hired to conduct the repair by the Icelandic electrical transmission company Landsnet. The cable repair was undertaken during the month of June utilizing the […]

  • Iceland Considers to Supply Britain with Green Power Through New Subsea Cable

    10 January 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Iceland is considering to use its geothermal energy to supply Britain with green power through a new subsea cable which would be built by 2020, Daily Star informs. Hordur Arnarson, the chief executive of Landsvirkjun, was quoted as saying: “We believe it’s a win-win situation, because we have a flexible (source of) renewable power, which […]

  • UPDATE: Eimskip Wants RUV Leak Investigated

    17 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Icelandic shipping company Eimskip said it had advised its attorneys to prepare a report to the police and request investigation of alleged leak of confidential information to Icelandic TV station RÚV. “Eimskip is astonished by the coverage of RÚV in this context. Listed companies must follow laws and regulations on handling of insider information and distribution […]

  • Iceland: Newly Discovered Current Could Affect North Atlantic Climate Picture, Says WHOI

    22 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland that could significantly influence the ocean’s response to climate change in previously unforeseen ways. The current, called the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ), contributes to a key component […]

  • Iceland opens EU entry talks; says its fishing sector must remain national

    27 July 2010

    Iceland says it wants to keep its fishing sector out of the hands of the European Union when it joins the bloc. Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinson says fishing is so crucial to his nation’s economy that it must be kept out the EU’s fisheries policy and its quotas and fishing bans.

  • The Netherlands: Samskip Acquires Two Container Vessels

    27 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 and […]

  • Nordavind to Build Subsea Cable Between Norway and Ireland

    25 February 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Nordavind Data Center Sites intends to build of a new fiber optic cable between Norway and Ireland. With the Desktop Study (DTS) already completed, Celtic Norse is now moving towards securing the anchor tenants and finalizing the finance package to complete survey and final build. The cable is expected to become operational by third quarter […]

  • Atlantic SuperConnection: Laying the FID groundwork for subsea interconnector to ply UK with geothermal and hydroelectric electricity while doling out wind power to Iceland

    2 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Plans have been set to put the required funding in place to take a final investment decision (FID) on a subsea interconnector project between the UK and Iceland.