The UK Chamber of Shipping — the voice of the country’s shipping industry — has urged the UK government to exempt seafarers and maritime workers from any quarantine restrictions planned to be imposed.
Swedish oil company Lundin Energy has been given a drilling permit to drill the 7219/11-1 well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.
The deadline for the close of the examination period for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm has been pushed back to 12 October 2020. The UK Planning Inspectorate submitted a request to extend the examination period for the Norfolk Boreas development consent order (DCO) application to the
Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has begun an assessment of Beach Energy’s proposed T/30P geophysical and geotechnical seabed survey offshore Australia.
AMSA completes subsea operations, successful recovering 63 shipping containers of YM Efficiency containership.
By Tom Scott The subject of sustainability in the Dutch maritime sector can be summed in part by looking at the outcome of the IMO meeting in London in April last year. This resulted in the IMO announcing the goal to reduce greenhouse gases by at least 50 per cent by 2050 (compared to 2008 […
The EU Commission has opened a four-week public consultation on draft rules to establish a new EU financing mechanism to support renewable energy projects. The new mechanism opens a possibility for the member states to collectively benefit from renewables projects funded through tenders using an EU-
As the envisaged transformation of the European waterborne transport would require significant investments, SEA Europe has proposed the creation of a dedicated EU Maritime Fund as an alternative to extending the EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) to shipping.
Prompted by the growing crisis affecting around 150,000 seafarers stuck at sea and unable to sign off from their ships, the international maritime bodies have developed a set of protocols aimed at resolving the burning issue. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has released the protocols i
Adding offshore wind to Hong Kong’s energy mix is currently hindered by technical and financial issues, according to the latest information from official sources in Hong Kong. Namely, a representative in the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Kenneth Leung, filed a question regarding the government’s of
Thailand’s PTTEP has submitted a plan for the suspension of three wells to Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA).
Oil and gas company PetroNor has reached a mutual agreement with the Government of Senegal to suspend the arbitration related to a dispute for two offshore blocks.
Following a set of inspections, Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has confirmed that operators of offshore facilities were equipped with adequate arrangements for protecting workers from infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
Australian energy company Woodside has submitted a decommissioning plan for subsea infrastructure no longer required for production activities from the Echo Yodel field offshore Australia.
