
Norway-based classification society DNV has decided to acquire Dutch cyber security specialist Applied Risk in an effort to create an industrial security powerhouse.

Spain’s Repsol has been forced to halt production from its Yme field less than a month after the oil production started.

The Petroleum Safety Authority has discovered a total of four irregularities and improvement points during an audit of the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Reacher jack-up rig.

Certification and classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) and French insurance consultancy BESSÉ have formed a partnership to strengthen cyber security in the maritime sector.

Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), a non-profit group established to further digitalisation of container shipping technology standards, has published interface standards and messaging application programming interface (API) specifications for all 50 event timestamps.

The regulator has launched an investigation following findings of corrosion on Equinor-operated Troll C platform’s gas compressor coolers.

A recent study jointly developed by Dutch Port of Amsterdam and classification society DNV has concluded that ports looking to supply new zero or carbon-neutral fuels to ships will need to pay special attention to spatial safety when planning ahead for locating and building bunkering infrastructure.

Clyde Training Solutions (CTS) has officially opened a training centre dedicated to the renewables industry to help the UK’s workforce realise the country’s green energy ambitions.

The PSA, Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, has confirmed Equinor will not get consent for Johan Castberg until the operator corrects all nonconformities.

PSE Kinsale Energy is preparing to move a Stena Drilling-owned rig to a final location as part of the decommissioning campaign of the Kinsale gas fields.

BP has confirmed that five crew members on its platform off the UK have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been flown to shore.

At least seven workers lost their lives while scrapping vessels on the beach of Chattogram in what is the worst quarter in terms of a number of accidents in Bangladeshi shipbreaking history, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform said.

Neptune has received consent from a Norwegian offshore safety authority to use the Deepsea Yantai rig for operations on the Fenja field.

UK-based EnQuest has submitted its decommissioning plan for the Thistle Alpha platform topsides to the country’s authorities.