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Equinor has selected the family-owned industrial group Wergeland as its preferred supplier for the fabrication of foundations and the assembly of turbines for floating offshore wind projects. The Norwegian energy giant said the agreement is aimed at ensuring industrial capacity to develop offshore wind in Norway, where activities are gathered …

Greek ships remain the dominant force shipping Russian crude, increasing their market share significantly since the December 5 ban on Russian oil exports started, according to new data from freight data firm Vortexa. Greek and other foreign owners are allowed to transport crude and products out of Russia under an …

This week Uniper brought Germany’s first full cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a new LNG terminal, operated by Uniper, in Wilhelmshaven, the latest chapter in Europe’s great shift away from Russian energy sources. The LNG ship Maria Energy, owned by Tsakos Energy Navigation, was loaded with 170,000 cu …

Italy’s Eni has announced a significant gas discovery at the Cronos-1 well off Cyprus. The block is operated by Eni, with both End and Total Energies holding a 50% interest each. Eni estimates around 2.5 TCF of gas in place, with significant additional upside possible with a further exploration well …

On behalf of its partners in the Bacalhau oil field, Equinor Brasil has awarded Valaris a 540-day drilling contract to commence in 2023. The Valaris DS-17 drillship will be used to drill an appraisal well, cap a former exploration well and conduct additional drilling scope work in Brazil. It is …

Ukrainian military forces targeted offshore oil and gas drilling platforms in the Black Sea on Monday, the country’s officials and Russia-installed head of Crimea have said. Oleksiy Honcharenko, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, first broke the news on Telegram, which was later confirmed on the same platform by Sergei Askyonov, who …

Equinor and BP announced last week the launch of the New York-based Offshore Wind Innovation Hub, which will facilitate partnerships with start-ups that bring new technological solutions to the rapidly growing US offshore wind industry. The initiative springs from a new three-year partnership between Equinor, the Urban Future Lab (UFL) …

LNG has the highest orderbook-to-fleet ratio of any shipping segment, and yet there’s plenty of analysts suggesting there’s room for far more newbuilds to be contracted soon with 2022 on course to break new records in terms of contracting with added impetus sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Data from …

In a potential big breakthrough on shipping’s path to decarbonisation, the Japanese look like they have minimised the issue of methane slip for ships using LNG as a fuel. Hitachi Zosen, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Yanmar Power Technologies have received approval in principle from ClassNK for a methane oxidation …

ExxonMobil this week announced its ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 2050. That goal applies to the company’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions. “We are developing comprehensive roadmaps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our operated assets around the world, and where …