
Dutch wave energy company Slow Mill Sustainable Power has taken its purpose-built wave energy research vessel on a maiden voyage offshore the Netherlands.

Netherlands-based MAN Rollo has delivered the first MAN Stage V generator sets for the Parsifal series LNG tankers built by Concordia Damen shipyard.

Icelandic power company HS Orka and UK-based joint venture Hydrogen Ventures Limited (H2V) have revealed plans to develop a production plant for green methanol using green hydrogen to power the marine sector.

Global energy consultancy Xodus has been awarded a conceptual engineering design contract by Petronas for its first complete carbon capture and storage (CCS) project offshore Malaysia.

Partners in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore producing Block G have completed the first of three planned infill wells at the Okume complex, Panoro Energy stated.

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) has awarded Italian classification society RINA a framework contract to support LNG bunkering initiatives.

Bureau Veritas has completed, together with MaDfly – Marine Drone Services, the first full in-water ship’s hull survey with a mini remotely operated vehicle (ROV).

Oil major BP has completed the transaction for the sale and leaseback of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim floating, production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO).

TGE Shanghai, a unit of TGE Gas Engineering, has signed a tank engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract with Guangdong Huizhou LNG.

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), the largest commercial shipbuilder in India, has held a keel-laying ceremony for two autonomous, zero-emission electric ferries being built for Norway-based company ASKO Maritime AS.

Although we are in the midst of the summer holidays and mails are returned with out-of-office messages, some moves were made on the offshore energy chess board. Moves that show that the strategy of the game is changing towards a more sustainable future. In this weekly update recent developments from

Swedish wave energy developer CorPower Ocean has joined an elite panel of marine energy experts in Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, to discuss the region’s ambitious plan to become an epicentre for offshore renewables.

Marine Renewables Canada (MRC) has provided input to the Government of Nova Scotia’s consultation on the Sustainable Development Goals Act (SDGA) and new Climate Change Plan for Clean Growth, highlighting the benefits of offshore wind, and wave and tidal energy.

Saipem’s pipelay vessels Castorone and Castro Sei have installed over 70% of the Baltic Pipe offshore gas pipeline.