MacGregor, part of Cargotec, and Kongsberg Maritime have entered into an agreement where MacGregor will deliver an automated mooring system for the world’s first autonomous container ship, Yara Birkeland.

The U.S. Interior Department has approved a plan by Hilcorp Energy, to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea, east of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. In the Liberty Project, Hilcorp aims to build a 24-acre gravel island in shallow waters about five miles from shore and drill for oil from there, and carry the oil with a pipeline […]

The European Commission has proposed limits to CO2 emissions from heavy-duty vehicles. The expanding liquefied natural gas infrastructure enables significant emission reductions in road transport in a cost-effective manner. Liquefied natural gas and liquefied biogas are fuels that enable the immediate achievement of the targets set by the Commission.

Non-compliant discharge of oily water continues to be an environmental threat – and an expensive headache for the marine industry. With the tamper-proof Alfa Laval BlueBox SA, a stand-alone oil content monitor and data recorder, Alfa Laval is providing peace of mind to ship owners and operators.

Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Ltd (Homeland) of Lagos, Nigeria, has taken delivery of another Damen 3307 Patrol Vessel for operations in the offshore oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea. This takes the total delivered vessels/Guardians since the first arrived in early 2014 to four. Guardian 4 has joined its three sister ships in providing security services to the oil majors active in Nigeria’s territorial waters, together with additional support services including crew transfers and equipment deliveries.

The US government has expanded its punitive sanctions against Russia by forbidding the export of American wares or technology to an offshore oil and gas field in eastern Siberia controlled by Gazprom.

A Kremlin spokesman quickly rebuked Washington’s decision to add the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye Field to its list of energy sector sanctions, saying it ”further damaged our bilateral relations.”

But spokesman Dmitry Peskov also struck a tone of defiance, denying that American sanctions over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine had been effective in weakening Russia’s economy.

”The economy is showing its steadiness, so I don’t think we can talk about any significant or systematic influence from such actions, which we do not consider successful, legitimate or most importantly far-sighted,” Peskov said.