Irish hydrokinetic turbine developer GKinetic Energy has expanded its team further with a new hire of a mechanical design engineer, Gary Brennan. Brennan previously operated his own Architectural Technology service for 8 years specialising in draughting, surveying & certification and developing exte
According to a worldwide survey, almost one-third of workers in the oil and gas industry faced pay cuts in 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis and drop in fuel demand and prices.
Nor-Shipping, one of the leading international shipping events, has been postponed to 10-13 January 2022, the event organisers informed.
Subsea services firm Ashtead Technology has appointed a chief financial officer (CFO) and five managers for newly created roles across its international team. Ashtead said the appointments underline the company’s strategic growth plans to strengthen its position in the global offshore energy market
The new senior vice president LNG of JERA Global Markets is Jonathan Westby.
Two men were charged and appeared in court over the weekend as part of the ongoing investigation into the maritime security incident that took place on board the Nave Andromeda off the coast of the Isle of Wight on October 25. Specifically, seven stowaways reportedly hijacked the vessel in the Engli
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s wave and tidal sector specialist, Simon Cheeseman, has been awarded the Society for Underwater Technology’s (SUT) Lennard-Senior prize for 2020 in recognition of his outstanding individual achievement in the field of marine renewable energy.
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has criticized the “no crew change” clauses in charterparties, stressing that such clauses exacerbate the dire situation of stranded seafarers and undermine the efforts undertaken to resolve the ongoing crew change crisis. The so-called “no crew change” clauses, whic
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Committee of Experts issued a ruling that governments have failed in their duty of care towards seafarers under international law during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first ruling of its kind, the committee of 20 jurists found that governments failed abj
Forty-five IMO Member States and one Associate Member, Hong Kong, have now designated seafarers as key workers, a key step in resolving the ongoing crew change crisis. Key worker designation is essential to exempt these professionals from specific COVID-related travel restrictions, allowing them to
Energy consultancy Xodus has expanded its emissions team to support clients and the wider energy industry in achieving its net zero goals. Atmospherics expert Natasha Howlett has joined the company to lead an in-house emissions management division, which will support clients’ emissions reduction ini
Nova Innovation has opened a recruitment process for an experienced project manager that will lead the development of its Enlli tidal energy project in north Wales.
Several clean energy executives have left from oil major Shell over a disagreement on how far and fast the company should move towards greener energy.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has revealed almost its entire new set of level-two executives with ten of eleven now in place.
