Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) is partnering with two leading environmental consulting firms, CTEH and CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA), to provide its members with additional specialist monitoring and sampling (M&S) services.

International ocean data company XOCEAN has today announced the opening of a new entity in Norway to service growing demand in the market for the company’s pioneering, carbon-neutral, data collection services using remotely controlled Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USV).


The energy and marine consultancy AqualisBraemar LOC Group (ABL Group) has entered into an agreement to acquire the UK operations of ship design and marine consultancy company OSD-IMT from Damen Shipyards Group.

Shell Global Solutions BV and energy technology company Baker Hughes have signed a broad strategic collaboration agreement to accelerate the global energy transition by helping each other achieve their respective commitments for net-zero carbon emissions and advancing solutions to decarbonize energy and industrial sectors.

Greensea, creator of OPENSEA®, the universal open architecture software platform for the marine industry, announces the hire of Deborah Townsend as Program Manager. Deborah will immediately lead several newly contracted DOD programs as well as lead Greensea’s partnership with Kraken Robotics.

A joint venture announced during ADIPEC Exhibition in Abu Dhabi on November 16, between Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) and Rawabi Vallianz Offshore Services (RVOS) positions BSM to offer together third-party shipmanagement services to the offshore sector in Saudi Arabia.

Xeneta, a leading ocean and air freight rate benchmarking, market analytics platform and container shipping index, has announced Jesper Kjaedegaard as a new board member.

Teledyne Marine has appointed Pim Kuus to the newly created role of Senior Hydrographer & Product Manager for Teledyne RESON’s market leading echosounders.

CRP Subsea has made a large-scale investment in a new manufacturing facility to support their transition from primarily oil & gas into the renewables market. The purpose-built manufacturing facility includes a state-of-the-art semi-automated production line for the NjordGuard cable protection system used in offshore wind farms.

Technip Energies and PETRONAS have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) establishing a strategic collaboration framework for the further development and commercialization of carbon capture technologies.

Sea Vorian, a company created by a pool of investors led by Jean-Luc Biache and François-Xavier de Cointet, is acquiring 100% of Seafin, a leader in the distribution and manufacturing of high-tech products for the blue economy, from its founder Claude Pacheco, the Atalaya and Financière de Brienne 2 funds managed by Ace Capital Partners and SFLD.

To better serve customers in the Eastern Hemisphere, Clariant is expanding its presence and commitment to the region, including Africa, Southeast Asia, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, the North Sea, and the Middle East.

Damen Shipyards Group is opening its latest service hub, in Hamburg, Germany. This takes the total number of hubs to fifteen, spread across Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, and Australia. The Hamburg hub will serve not only Germany but also Denmark and Poland.

Global integrated logistics and materials management company, ASCO, has appointed Peter Guild, as new Group Head of HSSEQ and promoted Thuy-Tien Le Guen Dang to support the company sustainability strategy.

GATE Energy, a premier global engineering, commissioning, and field services provider headquartered in Houston, TX, just announced that they have been selected to serve on the NOIA, National Ocean Industries Association, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Workgroup.

David Wells, CEO of AqualisBraemar LOC ASA, which operates in the oil and gas industry through the AqualisBraemar LOC, Longitude, East Point Geo and JLA brands, has announced that he wishes to retire at year-end and step down as CEO of the group.