As it is estimated that investments amounting to a whopping $10 trillion are needed for the U.S. to reach its net-zero by 2050 goal, Wood Mackenzie, an energy intelligence group, looks into four technology pillars that would enable the U.S. to reap the benefits of the provisions within the Inflation
A collaborative project dubbed OPTILE has been launched in France with the aim of decarbonizing the supply of electricity to island grids using offshore renewable energy.
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), India’s top shipbuilder, has won a contract from Dutch logistics company Samskip for the design and construction of two zero-emission feeder container vessels. The project, which includes an option for two more vessels, represents one of the world’s first zero-emission
A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) has reached an agreement with A.P. Moller Holding, the parent company of the A.P. Moller Group, to divest Maersk Supply Service (MSS), specializing in the provision of global offshore marine services and project solutions for the energy sector. The move is part of Maers
A Subsea7 pipelay vessel has begun pipe spooling for the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project being developed in Norway. The vessel Seven Oceans arrived at Subsea7’s Vigra Spoolbase in Norway to spool the first section of the 100-kilometer pipeline that will run from Øygarden to
Swedish wave energy company Seabased has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the development of 10MW wave energy plant offshore the Polynesian country and archipelagic state of Tonga.
South Korea’s shipbuilding major Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, a subsidiary of HD Hyundai, has signed an agreement with Avikus, a compatriot startup specializing in autonomous navigation solutions, to conduct a fuel-saving verification project using autonomous navigation systems. The pr
French green hydrogen production specialist, Lhyfe, and Centrica, the UK-headquartered multinational energy company, have signed an agreement to jointly develop offshore renewable hydrogen in the UK, starting with a pilot project in the Southern North Sea. Beyond the pilot, Lhyfe and Centrica will a
300 terawatt hours (TWh) of green hydrogen could potentially be produced using electricity from offshore wind farms in the North Sea by 2050, and used not only to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors but also to boost the security of energy supply in Europe, a new study has shown. The “Specification of
The American natural gas production is expected to grow while the accelerated shift to low-carbon and green sources will reduce U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions through 2050.
As part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan, the European Commission (EC) has proposed new initiatives and a set of actions to scale up the manufacturing of clean technologies in the European Union (EU), including renewable hydrogen, carbon capture, and alternative fuel technologies, among others. On
China’s Wuhu Shipyard has launched construction on SAL Heavy Lift’s first two carbon-neutral heavy lift ships, the shipbuilder revealed. The two 14,600 dwt vessels form part of a fleet of a total of six Orca-class vessels which will be equipped with dual-fuel engines able to run on methanol. SAL Hea
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has awarded Approval in Principle (AiP) to Rotoboost, a Nordic hydrogen production company, for its pre-combustion Carbon Capture System (CCS) Rotobox. Rotobox uses thermocatalytic decomposition process (TCD) onboard marine vessels, where part of the natural gas fuel supply is
Nexans has completed the last pull-in of the subsea interconnector cable between the island of Crete and the Greek mainland. Nexans is in charge of the design, manufacture and installation of the 335-kilometer subsea HVDC cable system for Ariadne Interconnection, owned by Greece’s state grid operato
