High commodity prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have called into question the UK’s reliance on energy imports.

Intellian, a leading provider of satellite communications systems, has appointed Mr. Cheng-Yu Tang as Vice President and Head of Asia-Pacific region, based in Hong Kong SAR, China. He reports to CEO, Eric Sung; and his appointment is in-line with Intellian’s plan to maximize business efficiency and to achieve its strategic objectives in the APAC region.

Researchers have proposed a new idea that may explain why some Antarctic icebergs are tinged emerald green rather than the normal blue, potentially solving a decades-long scientific mystery.

DNV, the world’s leading classification society, has completed a concept verification review of Odfjell Oceanwind’s WindGrid™ (WindGrid) system for Mobile Offshore Wind Units (MOWUs).

The new exploration permit, WA-542-P, has been awarded to Equinor as operator and 100% owner.

For each year during the past quarter century, the world’s oceans have absorbed an amount of heat energy that is 150 times the energy humans produce as electricity annually, according to a study led by researchers at Princeton and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego.

Over the past decade the oil and gas industry has proved itself to be resilient to the shocks and twists of global geo-politics, resurgent trade wars, plummeting prices, economic uncertainty and increasing awareness of environmental concerns. Now, it must prove itself resilient to an entirely different type of threat: a global pandemic that changes everything from actual demand to workforce availability.

On September 19, Noordwijk Ocean Services has signed a contract to outfit their freighter Bandura with the new innovative scrubber from Value Maritime. Installation will take place on February 2020.

Diver6, a Diver and Dive Operations mobile support system, has released a new software component for the Diver6 user community. The new ENC chart overlay features allow Dive Masters to see where their divers are located on a chart during an active dive.

Kongsberg Digital, part of KONGSBERG, and MacGregor, part of Cargotec, have entered into a collaboration agreement to test the interface of MacGregor’s OnWatch Scout condition monitoring and predictive maintenance service within Kongsberg Digital’s Vessel Insight data infrastructure solution.

Heavy-lift jack-up vessel Innovation, one of DEME’s DP2 installation vessels, left Damen Verolme Rotterdam shipyard in early September 2019 following a major refit. Innovation spent several months in the Verolme shipyard undergoing renewal of its aft leg sections and an overhaul of its jacking motors.

Equinor has signed an agreement to acquire Chevron’s 40% operated interest in the Rosebank project, one of the largest undeveloped fields on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Once concluded, the transaction will strengthen Equinor’s UK portfolio, which includes the Mariner development, attractive exploration opportunities and three producing offshore wind farms.