Van Oord has placed an order with Demcon Unmanned Systems for its second autonomous survey vessel. The move comes after Van Oord deployed its first unmanned survey vessel VO:X Metiri last year at projects in the Netherlands. According to the Dutch company, the idea for VO:X Metiri originated in its
The Dutch government has granted a consortium that includes oil majors Shell and ExxonMobil around $2.4 billion in subsidies for what will be one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world.
