Energy

ConocoPhillips announces further progress on its global liquefied natural gas (LNG) strategy, signing a commercial agreement to secure additional regasification capacity in Europe at the Gate LNG terminal in the Netherlands.

SBM Offshore and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) have announced the signing of a Partnership Agreement that will offer a CO2 capture solution for Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) as they are producing oil and gas from offshore reservoirs.

ZEMBA has launched a Request for Proposals (RfP) for 600,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs) over a three-year period on ocean vessels powered by zero-emission fuels. Through this tender, ZEMBA will help its member companies reduce nearly 1 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions, equivalent to taking 215,000 cars off the road.

The Japan Trench is located on the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind, a leading non-profit working to develop offshore wind and build a dedicated supply chain in the United States, announces that former Director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Amanda Lefton as its Heronemus Award for Outstanding Achievement in Offshore Wind recipient.

A new report by Robert Gordon University has found that the UK offshore energy workforce can increase by up to 50% from over 150,000 in 2023 to 225,000 by the end of the decade with new renewable jobs outnumbering oil and gas roles if a successful transition is achieved.

The Business Network for Offshore Wind has released a new report, Building a Collaborative Data Strategy for the US Offshore Wind Industry, which highlights the need for and benefits of developing a strategic, industry-wide approach to collecting and using environmental data in the offshore wind sector.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the proposed Empire Wind Farm Project offshore New York, which BOEM estimates could power more than 700,000 homes with clean renewable energy.

Europe’s tidal stream sector received a resounding vote of confidence in UK’s renewable energy auction results, under its Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme.

The future development and deployment of floating offshore wind technology is seen as a critical element of the UK’s net zero ambitions.

Boskalis has acquired two contracts for the transportation and installation of the export and array cables for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm off the coast of Poland.

Following the promising range of potential benefits identified in the scenarios within the “Wave and Floating Wind Energy—Opportunities for Sharing Infrastructure, Services and Supply Chain” report supplied by Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) Ltd, Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has begun a series of tank tests at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility.