The Scottish Government likes the idea of getting into bed with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to drive the development and mass manufacture of floating offshore wind turbines, initially for deployment in Scottish waters.
When it comes to making fuel from plants, the first step has always been the hardest -- breaking down the plant matter in order to efficiently and responsibly process it into biodiesel.
On February 26, Extinction Rebellion launched co-ordinated protests in London’s “Square Mile” targeting insurers in the Lloyds of London market.
It’s great to learn that investment in wind energy across Europe more than doubled last year compared to 2022, driven by record financing of North Sea offshore wind projects.
Sea trade is under massive pressure to change as the global population of 61,000 ships collectively weighing in at over 2.1 billion tons deadweight is responsible for over 3% of current CO2 emissions and still rising.
The 1984-85 miners’ strike has once again hit the headlines, despite ending 40 years ago.
Norwegian shipbuilding group Vard has secured a contract to design and build a hybrid-fuelled service operation vessel (SOV) for Singapore-based offshore wind vessel owner Cyan Renewables.
David Rennie’s comments around Hywind maintenance being a "lost opportunity" left me puzzled and asking the question as to whether or not he actually understands the floating turbine marketplace as well as he ought.
China took the global shipping industry by surprise by unveiling a super-large NUCLEAR container ship design at the Marintec marine expo in Shanghai last month.
Jeremy Cresswell compares Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon classic, Money, to COP 28 in the wake of the climate conference.
Picking through some of the past year’s headlines regarding the state of the offshore wind construction and support vessels market makes uncomfortable reading.
A worrying aspect of the global energy transition now gathering pace is how impoverished countries with large oil and gas discoveries react to wealthy nation rhetoric telling them that they should kiss the chance of making $billions goodbye before they’ve even started harvesting the resource.
Several years ago, it seemed that some leading environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had started to concede UK Big Oil’s claim that a managed transition away from high- to low-carbon energy might be strategically more effective as a means of reaching Net Zero by 2050 than the slam-dunk kill demanded by Just Stop Oil.
Wind Industry decommissioning is a very different business to cessation of production and abandonment of oil and gas fields, whether on or offshore.
The global offshore wind construction vessel fleet count has been boosted by the recent delivery of two jack-ups (WTIVs) built by Chinese group Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) for conglomerate China Communications Construction Company (CCCC).
Mathematical modelling can demonstrate how to safely blend hydrogen with natural gas for transport in existing pipeline systems, claim researchers at the famous Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US.
With COP 28 just around the corner and as pressure builds across the globe to slash carbon emissions, increasingly powerful calls and commitments designed to accelerate the pace of green energy change are on the table.
Most of us involved in energy are aware of the alleged Big Oil claim that higher hydrocarbon profits are necessary to provide the means to finance the Energy Transition.
Two things happened last Friday that spurred me to write this reflection on prostate cancer, says Energy Voice's Jeremy Cresswell.
News this month that Cromarty and the Firth of Forth have been chosen to become Scotland’s green freeports was unquestionably a bitter pill to swallow for the energy sector in North-east Scotland.
Driven by society’s need to tackle climate change, renewable energy-based power generation is growing exponentially worldwide and especially in Europe where wind power alone now accounts for around 16% of capacity.
Jeremy Cresswell was honoured last night at an industry event for his contribution to the renewable energy sector in Aberdeen.
It’s a part of life … every second of every day, myriad people are handled unfairly, wittingly or otherwise.
In 2014, when involved in developing Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group’s roughly 100MW Aberdeen Bay Windfarm plan, I and other members of the team were offered a briefing on a new way of bidding projects designed to drive down prices.
Yesterday's announcement by Sunak was far from destructive for the North Sea oil & gas industry given the generous projects investment tax relief, but it fails, as it turns out, in at least one critical way.