Norway, one of the wealthiest countries in the world due to its oil and gas reserves, is looking to transition to deep-sea mining for copper, zinc, and other metals in high demand in green technologies.
Scottish government-owned company Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) has awarded a contract to design and engineering firm BMT to provide consultancy services for the concept design of a new passenger ferry for the Gourock, Dunoon and Kilcreggan routes.
Turkey and Greece will continue exploratory talks over territorial claims in the Mediterranean Sea that almost brought the two to blows during 2020.
The UK Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) is looking to commission a project to carry out work on a UKCS carbon capture risk register and global lessons learned. In anticipation of increased interest in carbon capture and storage projects on the UKCS, the OGA wants to strengthen its regulatory excellence in
Turkey has increased the levels of maritime pollution fines raising them by 9.11 %, according to the Standard Club. Environmental pollution fines are revised annually and declared in the Official Gazette for the respective year. The fines relate to pollution caused by cargo ships and other naval ves
Kwasi Kwarteng has been appointed as the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as part of a ministerial reorganization at the department.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Chrysaor drilling permits for two wells located in the North Sea offshore Norway.
The Government of Norway has revealed plans to increase its national tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions more than threefold by 2030 to help it reach its climate goals.
ConocoPhillips has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog for remote operation of a North Sea platform.
European Union’s Horizon 2020 program has awarded €5 million to VALID project for the development of a Hybrid Testing Platform that will accelerate the testing of marine energy devices in Europe’s race towards carbon neutrality.
i3 Energy has relinquished its UK North Sea licence which contains the Liberator field, after determining that its development would not be commercially viable.
Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety agency for the use of the Island Wellserver vessel for well intervention.
Clean energy technology start-up Exowave has secured funding from the Danish government to advance the project that combines wave energy extraction with desalination and hydrogen production.
The UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) gave the development consent to the Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm on 31 December 2020. Ørsted submitted the development consent order (DCO) application for the 2.4 GW project to the UK Planning Inspectorate on 1
