The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a ship involved in building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as the Trump administration sought to raise pressure on the project on its last day in office.
The International Chamber of Shipping is calling on governments to put seafarers and frontline maritime shore workers at the head of the vaccine queue and to designate seafarers as keyworkers, to avoid a repeat of the 2020 ‘crew change crisis’. ICS is demanding that governments, who are once again r
Two Fieldwood Energy workers have been indicted for allegedly allowing crude oil spills from Gulf of Mexico platforms to avoid shutdowns.
U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum claims that it is doing more than American electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Greek shipowner Avin International LTD has ordered a Suezmax tanker from the Chinese shipbuilder New Times Shipbuilding Co., and the tanker is set to become the first ammonia-fuel ready vessel in the world. The landmark 274-meter-long vessel is now under construction and the company has options for
Alfa Laval, DTU Energy, Haldor Topsoe, Svitzer and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are entering into a joint project to accelerate the development of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology. Funded by a grant from Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Prog
Despite a massive drop in premium earnings for ships fitted with scrubbers during 2020, the scope for scrubber cancellations has been limited due to contractual obligations with shipyards and scrubber manufacturers, Gibson Shipbrokers said in its latest weekly report. This might come as a bit surpri
A former executive at Petrofac has pleaded guilty to bribery offences related to contract awards to Petrofac in UAE worth about $3.3 billion.
On 15 January 2021, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) officially introduced new requirements for shore-based personnel boarding ships in an effort to improve the safety of maritime operations.
At least five workers have lost their lives while dismantling out of service ships at shipbreaking facilities in Bangladesh in the final quarter of 2020, the latest quarterly report from the NGO Shipbreaking Platform shows. Two workers fell to their deaths while dismantling two different vessels. In
Norway’s offshore safety regulator has given Lundin consent for exploration drilling of an offshore well using the West Bollsta rig.
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, activity on the Norwegian continental shelf last year remained at a high level with high production and significant investments in developments and projects on the fields.
As Gazprom prepares to continue Nord Stream 2 pipelaying work in Danish waters, the U.S. State Department has again warned European companies of sanctions if they are suspected of helping to build Russia’s new gas pipeline.
The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has decided to take “a blended approach” to licence management which should dampen the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
