UK oil and gas company Premier Oil has filed its draft decommissioning program for the Hunter & Rita subsea pipelines to the UK authorities.
UK Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is considering the creation of a ‘pot within a pot’ for marine energy in the 2021 contracts for difference auction round.
Russian technology company Kronshtadt Technologies has entered into agreements to equip a series of cargo and passenger ships with autonomous navigation systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) extended the terms of seven long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) export authorizations through 2050.
Norwegian safety watchdog Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Equinor a consent for the life extension for Veslefrikk.
Environmental activists have raised concerns with a Bahamas court related to Bahamas Petroleum Company’s plans to drill the Perseverance #1 offshore well.
On 9 December 2020, the European Commission presented its new mobility strategy, charting a course for shipping and the rest of the EU transport sector out of the COVID-19 crisis.
Oil and gas company Hague and London Oil (HALO) has set out plans to reactivate the out-of-production UK North Sea field and reroute gas through infrastructure in the Netherlands.
On 8 December 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated six entities and identified four vessels related to the transport of North Korean coal.
Malaysian operator Hibiscus Petroleum has pushed back a final investment decision (FID) for the Marigold development in the UK part of the North Sea.
A Jamaica-flagged, Turkish-owned cargo ship has been detained by Libyan National Army (LNA) forces off Derna, a port city in eastern Libya.
The Norwegian authorities have approved Aker BP’s development and operation plan for the Hod field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that he would not bow to threats regarding the dispute with Greece and Cyprus over maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean as the EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss the issue.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Tordis field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
