Environment News – Page 5
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NewsRWE signs long-term agreements with North Star for 2+2 SOVs
German energy firm RWE has contracted two of North Star’s SOVs for up to 12 years with another two newbuilds planned in a few years’ time.
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NewsHyNet boosts UK carbon capture
HyNet is advancing with five priority carbon capture projects that will remove the trace gas from industrial waste.
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News54m jacket towed out to Atlantic coast
A substation jacket for the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm has been installed off the French Atlantic coast after an impressive navigation underneath a 100-year-old bridge.
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NewsUlstein converts wind vessel for oil and gas
Shipbuilder Ulstein will convert an existing Commissioning Service Operation Vessel into a Walk-to-Work vessel for unmanned production platform on the Norwegian continental shelf, it says.
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NewsFloating wind takes pride of place in Gulf of Lion
Ocean Winds and partner Banque des Territoires have installed the first of three floating wind turbines that they say are the most powerful floating turbines in the world.
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NewsFirst Jones Act-compliant cable layer deal agreed
The first US-flagged cable-lay barge to connect offshore wind farms to the US grid will be built by the new partnership of Nexans and Crowley Wind Services.
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NewsFalmouth rolls out HVO for workboat fleet
The UK’s Falmouth Harbour in the southwest of England has created an HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) re-fuelling facility for its workboat fleet.
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NewsCanada dives into offshore wind with first areas designated
The Canadian government has selected the first four areas for offshore wind development in the east coastal province of Nova Scotia with a target to license 5GW by 2030.
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NewsBattery-powered ROV reveals deep-sea biodiversity
An ROV expedition off Sardinia has revealed rich biodiversity off the northeastern coast of Sardinia in depths of more than 1,000 metres.
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News‘World’s largest’ wind farm approved despite bird death fears
The latest ‘world’s largest offshore wind farm’ has been given the green light in the UK despite a number of wildlife agencies raising concerns about the developer’s own estimates that thousands of sea birds that could be slaughtered once commissioned.
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NewsTrump vetoes “unreliable” and “foreign” energy
The US Trump Administration has effectively ended any preferential treatment for what it calls unreliable subsidy-dependent renewables
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NewsNew carbon rules threaten UK offshore edge
The UK’s early move to expand the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) to offshore vessels could raise UK port costs
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NewsInstallation deal signals untapped Baltic Sea potential
The Norwegian offshore wind transporter and installer Fred. Olsen Windcarrier will transport and install 63 wind turbines for the Gennaker wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
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NewsMitsui acquires Scottish offshore renewables port
The deal sees Mitsui & Co. Europe Ltd and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd acquire 100% of The Port of Nigg
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NewsInyanga’s cutting-edge vessel for offshore ops
Inyanga Marine Energy Group has announced it is taking over the joint operational management of the newly built hybrid utility vessel Tor Boreas, in partnership with Tor Group.
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NewsAI powers predictive CTV maintenance
The Enhance Vessel AI project aims to develop an intelligent predictive maintenance tool for CTVs
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NewsMenck secures Hornsea pile-driving contract
Menck is to supply its MHU4400S hydraulic hammer for pile-driving at Hornsea 3
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NewsFloating wind: An impossible target?
Without more leases, infrastructure or investor confidence, the UK’s floating wind ambitions look highly unlikely, says Theo Cleave, commercial manager at marine construction specialist MintMech.
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NewsGermany earmarks €400m for ports and shipping
Germany is charting a course toward cleaner seas and greener ports, announcing a €400 million investment to modernise its maritime infrastructure between 2026 and 2029.
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NewsWind, water and nuclear – Vattenfall on top of the new energy tide
One of the world’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind farms has been approved, Vattenfall reveals in its report on the first half of 2025.
