Day: April 17, 2025

Obama Judge Revives $20B Biden Green Scheme, Which Includes Stacey Abrams-Linked NGO

Energy News Beat Obama judge ordered EPA to restart $20B taxpayer-funded green scheme, forcing admin to resume funds for NGOs, including one run by Stacey Abrams. ​A federal judge ruled late Tuesday evening that the Environmental Protection Agency must immediately restart a $20 billion Biden-era green energy program that the Trump administration terminated last month, […]

Green Goals Crumble As Businesses Prioritize Growth And Profits

Energy News Beat Corporate and global leaders are ditching empty green pledges as pressure mounts to refocus on energy, growth, and development basics. Over the past decade, the leaders of corporate and international organizations became used to being lauded for making grand but ultimately empty, green promises on stages in Davos and climate summits. How […]

NYTimes Falsely Claims Climate Change Will Trigger ‘Global Economic Disaster’

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This article from Climate Realism has some excellent points. Because the climate alarm agenda has been used to regulate the energy industry, prices have doubled or tripled in many cases worldwide. “Renewable” is not renewable nor sustainable under current technology.    The New York Times warns of climate-driven economic […]

Striking Fast Trade Deals

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories The steep learning curve America faces if it wants to return to previous shipyard glory days April 15, 2025 Stu Turley ENB Pub Note: Interesting article from America’s Shipyards. While we retool the 19,000 manufacturing shops that the Democrats and Republicans shipped to China, we should also look at […]

Nam Cheong bags long-term contract for seven vessels

Energy News Beat AsiaOffshore Nam Cheong Nam Cheong Malaysia-based offshore marine group Nam Cheong has secured multi-year offshore support vessel charter contracts from leading regional oil majors worth up to RM317.1m ($72m). The agreements cover seven anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels, which will be deployed in Malaysian and Thai waters in 2025 for up […]

Adnoc Drilling lands $1.63bn contract

Energy News Beat Middle EastOffshore Adnoc Drilling Adnoc Drilling UAE-based Adnoc Drilling has been awarded a $1.63bn contract from state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The five-year deal will see the largest national drilling company in the Middle East by rig fleet size provide integrated drilling services for ADNOC Offshore. “This five-year award is […]

Trump administration halts work on Equinor’s wind project off New York

Energy News Beat White House Archives The secretary of the US Department of the Interior and chairman of the National Energy Dominance Council, Doug Burgum, has stopped all construction of Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project off the coast of New York. Burgum said in a social media post that his department, in consultation with the […]

Abandoned OSV crew take to social media to get paid

Energy News Beat AsiaOffshore Official ITF X account Official ITF X account An all-Indian crew of the St. Kitts & Nevis-flagged offshore support vessel Star Apollo has not been paid their salaries since the start of their contracts, and the crew’s health is also becoming an issue, according to a leading seafarer trade union. The […]

Trump’s tariffs crash world trade forecasts

Energy News Beat Julian Hoffmann Anton Many of shipping’s go-to bodies for trade forecasts are now slashing economic predictions for the year ahead in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff war.  Creating significant alarm, the World Trade Organization has warned global merchandise trade for 2025 could drop by as much as -1.5%, potentially becoming only […]

Trump administration chases substandard flags in bid to thwart Iran’s shadow fleet

Energy News Beat The latest American sanctions aimed at Iran’s oil industry make specific warnings to shipping about the use of substandard shipping. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) yesterday designated a China-based independent teapot refinery Shandong Shengxing Chemical for its role in purchasing more than a billion dollars’ worth […]