The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its advanced Cargo Handling System for four new 91,000 cbm capacity Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) vessels being built for the Norway-based fleet owner Avance Gas. The ships are under construction at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) yard in South Korea.

A world-leading integrated oil and gas company has received L3Harris Technologies’ first Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) built specifically to protect the environment and its emergency response personnel during oil spill response operations.

The plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Breidablikk field in the North Sea has been approved by Norwegian authorities. Field investments are approximately NOK 18.6 billion. Production from the field is scheduled to start in the first half of 2024.

Herbert Engineering Corp. (HEC) has named Hendrik Bruhns as the corporation’s new President. Hendrik succeeds Spencer Schilling who will formally step down as President on July 1st, 2021.

Windship Technology, Britain’s leading True Zero Emission company for the shipping industry is confirmed to unveil designs in a technical briefing to the shipping industry on Wednesday 17^th March 2021 at the Society of Maritime Industries’ Annual Conference.  

On June 30, 2021 at 21.56 CEST, the Martin Linge oil and gas field in the North Sea came on stream. The field is powered from shore, resulting in low CO₂ emissions, and operated from its onshore control room.

AqualisBraemar LOC, the energy and marine consultants, has completed its assignment in connection with the decommissioning and removal campaign of the Sable Project off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. 

International oil services group Applied Petroleum Technology (APT) has established an office in Houston, TX to ramp up its presence in the US to support US operators involved with shale oil as well as companies engaged in offshore E&P in the Gulf of Mexico. 

Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the USCGC EMLEN TUNNELL to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Florida. This is the 168^th vessel Bollinger has delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 45^th Fast Response Cutter (“FRC”) delivered under the current program. 

Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, has completed an oil and gas industry performance testing of Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite using data provided by Brazilian state-owned petroleum company, Petrobras.

Logan Industries (Logan), a hydraulic repair, manufacturing and rental company, has successfully completed manufacturing, assembly and installation of all 64 filter carts as part of its continual based monitoring program for a drilling contractor’s subsea tensioner equipment, ensuring greater uptime in the field.

Global survival and safety solutions leader Survitec has completed a £15 million Bank Guarantee Facility with Barclays Corporate Banking.

With an aim to radically reduce the marine industry’s carbon footprint and overall emissions, Alfa Laval and Wallenius have announced their intent to form a new 50/50 joint venture. AlfaWall Oceanbird will focus on the development and realization of technology for fully wind-powered vessel propulsion.
 


Equinor and partners Petoro, Vår Energi and Total E&P Norge have decided to develop the Lavrans discovery and the Kristin Q-discovery which is a part of the Kristin field.

TSC Subsea, a global specialist in remotely deployed subsea NDT inspections for the oil and gas industry, has opened a new base in Rio de Janeiro as part of its plans to expand across Brazil and further into Latin America.

Akselos SA has been commissioned by Shell and RWE to use the world’s most powerful structural simulation software, Integra®, to model the TetraSpar floating foundation demonstrator, which will be installed offshore Norway later this year.