Avangrid CEO Pedro Azagra said last week that the Commonwealth Wind and Park City Wind projects will be delayed by a year because of supply chain issues, according to The Boston Globe. The 804 MW Park City Wind development, located in a wind lease area south of Martha’s Vineyard, is designed to...
A fire broke out last Thursday evening onboard the TOTE Maritime roro docked at the Port of Tacoma. The incident was reported at around 19.30 hrs local time near the 700 block of Port of Tacoma Road, but the blaze was put out by the ship’s fire-suppression system before the fire department...
https://splash247.com/tote-roro-catches-fire-at-port-of-tacoma/
US-based onboard carbon capture startup Carbon Ridge has raised $6m in funding from several investors including compatriot shipping and logistics company Crowley and Singapore-based owner Berge Bulk. The funding round, led by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and which...
https://splash247.com/crowley-and-berge-bulk-back-onboard-carbon-capture-startup-carbon-ridge/
US-based onboard carbon capture startup Carbon Ridge has raised $6m in funding from several investors including compatriot shipping and logistics company Crowley and Singapore-based owner Berge Bulk. The funding round, led by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and which...
https://splash247.com/crowley-and-berge-bulk-back-onboard-carbon-capture-startup-carbon-ridge/
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), the world’s largest containerline, shows no sign of giving in on a legal fight it is having with a client in the US. In August last year Pennsylvania-based home decor MCS Industries filed a complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission in Washington DC, claiming...
https://splash247.com/msc-fires-back-in-ongoing-spat-with-pennsylvania-home-decor-firm/
Houston-based Talos Energy has acquired EnVen Energy Corporation, a private operator in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, for $1.1bn. The transaction will increase Talos’ production by 40% and gross acreage by 35%. It will also double Talos’ operated deepwater facility footprint, adding key...
https://splash247.com/talos-energy-acquires-enven-energy-adding-us-gulf-of-mexico-assets/
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy this week signed an executive order to increase the state’s offshore wind goal by nearly 50%, from 7,500 MW to 11,000 MW, by 2040. The order also directs the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to study the feasibility of increasing the target further. Murphy...
https://splash247.com/new-jersey-increases-offshore-wind-goal-to-11000-mw-by-2040/
The US Department of the Interior announced that the proposed notice of sale for lease sale 258 in Cook Inlet, Alaska will be available for review in the Federal Register today. In the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress directed that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management...
The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has launched a 16-month study exploring low-carbon options for shipping on the Great Lakes. The research group, led by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in partnership with the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and the Conference of...
Swiss-based marine construction specialist Allseas has won a contract from TC Energy for a major offshore pipeline delivering natural gas to southeast Mexico. The company’s pipelay vessels will install the 36-inch pipeline, which will run approximately 700 km south along the coast from Tuxpan...
https://splash247.com/allseas-wins-mexican-offshore-pipelay-contract/