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  • GE Opens New Oil & Gas Subsea Test Facility in Warsaw, Poland

    16 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    GE  has further expanded its Oil & Gas business’ portfolio capabilities with today’s inauguration of a new $3M investment subsea equipment testing facility in Warsaw, Poland, opened in partnership with the Warsaw Institute of Aviation and Engineering Design Center. The new Warsaw Subsea Test Lab provides GE Oil & Gas with increased capacity for the […]

  • EPA, MPCA to Provide USD 3.3 Million to Restore St. Louis River (USA)

    24 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced more than $3 million to help restore the St. Louis River Area of Concern. EPA will provide $2.2 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) funds and MPCA will provide an additional $1.1 million through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund. The money will […]

  • Megaships to Call on Brisbane’s New Cruise Terminal by 2019/20 Season

    4 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Cruising ‘Down Under’ is yet to be given a new flavor as Queensland readies to attract giant cruise ships with a new cruise terminal. Namely, Australia’s Port of Brisbane has embarked on a project aimed at tapping Queensland’s abundant cruise potential by proposing to develop a AUD 100 million cruise facility for Brisbane and South-east Queensland […]

  • Subsidies for Renewables, Good or Bad?

    22 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Generous subsidies for renewables are unsustainable and have contributed to electricity prices for residential consumers more than doubling in Germany, placing a strain on consumers and the economy there. In addition, renewable subsidies have clearly generated disequilibrium in the power markets, as well as value destruction for most stakeholders: consumers, renewable companies, electric utilities, financial institutions, and investors, according to […]

  • Iberdrola to Invest in Scottish Renewable Energy

    5 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    Ignacio Galán, the chairman and chief executive officer of Iberdrola, has outlined a strategy for further multi-billion pound investments in renewables in the UK, with a strong focus on Scotland, in a lecture at the University of Strathclyde.  Mr Galán was delivering the fourth James Blyth lecture at the university, in which he gave a detailed […]

  • CPS Report: “Renewable Energy ‒ the Most Expensive Domestic Policy Disaster in Modern British History”

    19 March 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A new report, published by the UK Centre for Policy Studies, claims that renewable energy policy is the most expensive domestic policy disaster in modern British history.  Read the official press release below: In a new report Central Planning with Market Features: how renewable subsidies destroyed the UK electricity market, published Wednesday 18 March, Rupert Darwall shows that […]

  • Two More High-Tech MPSV’s for Eastern Shipbuilding

    27 June 2013

    Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has announced that Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC. has executed contracts for two 302 ’x 76 ’x26’ Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels. Eastern is currently under contract to construct four 292’ and six 302’ OSV’s for Hornbeck, now adding two MPSV’s each built to a design from STX Marine. STX Marine with offices in […]

  • Hornbeck Offshore Executes Contracts for Two HOSMAX 310 MPSV’s

    27 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has announced that Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC. has executed contracts for two 302 ’x 76 ’x26’ Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels. Eastern is currently under contract to construct four 292’ and six 302’ OSV’s for Hornbeck, now adding two MPSV’s each built to a design from STX Marine. STX Marine with offices in […]

  • TGS sees record-high OBN contract activity following merger with PGS

    24 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norway-based energy data and intelligence company TGS has reported record-high ocean bottom node (OBN) contract activity in the third quarter of 2024, the first quarter including PGS, with the utilization of its streamer fleet improving on high bid activity. In Q3 2024, TGS said that the activity level within OBN acquisition was historically high, generating […]

  • Workforce cuts on the rise: Oil & gas giants’ cost-saving quests fuel layoffs’ wave

    24 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, IT & Software, Transition

    Price volatility, rise in costs, climate change, energy transition agendas, rising power demand, and emerging technologies and innovations, including market evolution, automation, and progress in unleashing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), have also played their part in shrinking the job market.

  • Carnival wants to resume cruising in August

    5 May 2020
    Vessels

    Cruise shipping giant Carnival Corporation has revealed plans to resume sailing at the beginning of August. The phase-in sailings would be introduced in the company’s North America service with a total of eight ships from Miami, Port Canaveral, and Galveston. The ships in question involve Carnival Dream, Carnival Freedom and Carnival Vista sailing from the […]

  • ‘World’s first’ remotely operated electric ferry wraps up trial in Sweden

    7 October 2024
    Innovation, Vessels

    MF Estelle, the ‘world’s first’ autonomous electric ferry, has completed its journey between two major islands in central Stockholm, demonstrating the potential for unmanned, sustainable transport, the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden has unveiled. MF Estelle’s trial in Stockholm Designed and built by Norway’s ferry builder Brødrene Aa, MF Estelle was launched in June 2023, […]

  • BP and Eni poised to create Angola’s largest producer by combining country’s businesses

    14 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Transition

    BP and Eni have agreed to form a new 50/50 JV in Angola, named Azule Energy, through the combination of Angolan businesses.

  • In focus: Energy transition reels in more oil & gas majors as coal power producer enters offshore renewables market

    15 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vessels

    Another week has gone by not leaving us wanting on energy transition developments, as several updates on renewable energy, clean fuels, decarbonisation, and net-zero strategies made headlines – most notably those from the traditionally fossil fuel-oriented players.

  • In focus: Ships, oil & gas platforms to get greener by the day with clean fuels and renewables

    29 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Massive investment announcements and ambitious new developments in the energy and shipping sectors marked this week on Offshore Energy (well, together with our Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference), as work on the global energy transition is moving forward through numerous new initiatives.

  • US: ‘Not in my backyard, not in my sea’ – What offshore wind can learn from missteps in other industries

    18 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    Securing community acceptance is a business-critical task, according to a new report on potential costly effects that public opposition to building offshore wind infrastructure could have on projects, looking at the experiences from other renewable energy industries in the United States. And while stakeholder and community feedback are a developer’s must-have, the developers seem not […]

  • G20 governments firmly behind fossil fuels with $151 billion in COVID-19 recovery policies

    15 July 2020
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    A total commitment of at least $151 billion from G20 governments in support of fossil fuels has been made available in their energy recovery policies, data from the Energy Policy Tracker shows.

  • New DSC Dredging Equipment for Lake Panorama

    26 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The Lake Panorama Rural Improvement Zone, located in Panora, IA, about 45 minutes west of Des Moines, recently upgraded its dredging equipment to a new DSC Barracuda Class dredge and 16-inch floating booster unit. Lake Panorama is the largest private lake in Iowa, with 1,400 acres of lake surface, more than 30 miles of shoreline, […]

  • GoM Oil and Gas Lease Sale Attracts $872 Mln in High Bids on 329 Tracts

    20 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. “These lease sales underscore the President’s commitment to create jobs and home-grown energy through the safe and responsible exploration and development of […]

  • Micro-AUVs Put to the Test Off Orkney Isles

    29 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    An innovative marine robot, called ecoSUB, has been trialed off the Orkney Isles in northern Scotland during a marine robot demonstrator mission coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The ecoSUBs are a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by Planet Ocean in partnership with the NOC. The AUVs are less than one metre […]

  • #OEECLive: Polymer banknotes, Paris climate deal, Stone Age, iPhone…

    25 October 2016

    By Bartolomej Tomic Offshore Energy Today readers on Tuesday had a chance to watch a live stream of an on-air discussion which was happening on Community Square of the Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference currently being held in the Amsterdam Rai Convention Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The discussion themed “We’ll always have Paris” was a […]

  • Op-ed: Can Welsh marine energy really boost the economy?

    4 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Gareth Stockman, Managing Director of wave energy company Marine Power Systems (MPS), has shared his views on the role marine renewable energy could play in boosting the UK economy.

  • Port of Rotterdam Partners Up with North Sea Wind Power Hub

    2 January 2018

    The North Sea Wind Power Hub Consortium wants to construct one or more so-called ‘Power Link Islands’ in the central North Sea.

  • New Zealand revoking offshore exploration ban amid gas crunch fears

    10 June 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    New Zealand’s government is setting the stage to lift the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration with a suite of proposed changes to an energy bill in a bid to stave off energy security woes due to looming gas supply shortages.

  • Grain de Sail orders its next wind-powered freighter

    15 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    French company Grain de Sail has ordered its future cargo sailboat from compatriot shipbuilder Piriou, expanding its carbon-free maritime fleet.