Bollinger Shipyards LLC has delivered the USCGC FREDERICK HATCH to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 166^th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 43^rd Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program.

The owners and board of directors of All American Marine (AAM) have announced the appointment of Ron Wille as the organization’s next President.

Shell has set out its strategy to accelerate its transformation into a provider of net-zero emissions energy products and services, powered by growth in its customer-facing businesses.

Driving the global energy revolution, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and CrossWind have executed the contract to deliver the turbines for the 759 MW Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind park. It includes the supply of 69 SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbines and a 15-year service and a maintenance agreement.

The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a Wärtsilä Optimized Maintenance Agreement covering two offshore Well Intervention Vessels owned by Norway based Siem Offshore.

A new collaborative agreement has been signed that will see Northern Solutions Alaska LLC represent global completions specialist Tendeka in actively promoting sales, installation, and services of its completion products and technologies in the region.

While the global oil and gas industry witnessed a marginal decrease in the number of contracts, from 1,283 in Q3 2020 to 1,145 in Q4, there was an almost 28% increase in terms of value from $17.58bn to $22.55bn.

With the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement and governments around the world committing to a more sustainable future, it is clear that more of our electricity will need to come from renewable sources.

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) technology is at the center of an ambitious new project to build a state-of-the-art, next generation Field Development Vessel (FDV) for Triumph Subsea Services.

An Aberdeen headquartered drilling equipment inspection and maintenance firm has expanded its Houston division investing in larger premises and appointing two new US technical directors to manage its international operations.

LOC, part of the AqualisBraemar LOC Group, has successfully completed its role providing Marine Warranty Survey (“MWS”) services on the Tengizchevroil Future Growth Project-Wellhead Pressure Management Project (“FGP-WPMP”). From a capex and MWS perspective, this project was one of the largest to date within the sector.  

“We used to do shore power projects on ships some years ago, but the market was too slow. Now however, with new regulation and grants supporting ship-owner’s shore power investments, we are back in the business of shore power. Together with NG3 we are ready to take on new orders,“ Aleksander Askeland CSO at Yara Marine Technologies says. 

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous command and control systems for commercial vessels, announces that it has entered a strategic alliance with Damen Shipyards Group, of the Netherlands, to incorporate the company’s autonomous and wireless-helm systems as standard features in Damen’s global vessel build catalogue.

 Professor David Elmes, Head of the Global Energy Research Network at Warwick Business School, said:

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved a revised plan for development and operation (PDO) for partial electrification of the Sleipner field center. The field center will be tied to the Utsira High area solution, and Sleipner is expected to cut emissions by more than 150,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.

As the search for oil has moved into deeper waters with more distance to shore-based facilities, Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels have become essential tools in the process.