
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a classification society, has bestowed an approval in principle (AiP) to Finland’s marine engineering player Deltamarin and China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) for a new versatile floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) hull design.

Great Britain’s regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has signaled its readiness to tackle the decommissioning deficit on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) by revealing the names of operators that are lagging behind their peers in the decommissioning department.