Category: Energy News Beat

ExxonMobil to invest around $200m into Australian offshore gas project

Energy News Beat AmericasOffshore ExxonMobil US supermajor ExxonMobil has announced a nearly $200m investment in the Kipper 1B Project, bringing online much-needed additional gas supply from the Gippsland Basin. The project, approved by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Australia and its co-venturers Mitsui and Woodside Energy, will utilise the Valaris 107 jack-up rig to drill and install […]

Pantheon Tankers in for suezmax newbuild brace

Energy News Beat EuropeTankers Pantheon Tankers Greece’s Pantheon Tankers has set out to expand its fleet with a fresh newbuilding contract in South Korea. Multiple shipbuilding sources report the deal is in place with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries for a pair of scrubber-fitted suezmax vessels. Genoa-based shipbroking group Banchero Costa has placed a “slightly softer” […]

Tsakos readies nine shuttle tankers at Samsung Heavy

Energy News Beat Greek owner Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has lined up a deal for shuttle tanker newbuildings in South Korea. Brokers in Greece have linked the New York-listed company and Samsung Heavy Industries to a nine-ship contract under the tender launched last year by Petrobras’ logistics subsidiary Transpetro. The dynamic positioning vessels come with […]

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners buys 480MW UK offshore wind farm

Energy News Beat CIP Danish fund manager and renewables investor Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has taken full ownership of the Morecambe offshore wind project from COBRA Group and Flotation Energy. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed. Flotation Energy will remain involved after the transaction as a development partner to the project. Morecambe […]

Oldendorff offloads post-panamax

Energy News Beat Dry CargoEurope Oldendorff Carriers Oldendorff Carriers is back in the market, selling ships. The latest sale is one of many bulker sales this week, bringing a bit more optimism to the secondhand market.  This time, Oldendorff has sold a ship in its favourite segment, selling the 13-year-old, Taizhou Catic-built 93,000 dwt post-panamax Cora […]

Another cable severed off Taiwan

Energy News Beat Greater ChinaOperations LS Cable Taiwan’s coast guard detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew on Tuesday. The vessel is suspected of damaging the cable connecting Taiwan to its outlying Penghu Islands, Taiwan’s coast guard said in a statement.  The Togo-flagged Hongtai58 and its eight Chinese crewmembers have been taken to the […]

EV Maker Falters

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Green Swindle Loses Again: EV Automaker Runs Out Of Juice February 25, 2025 Stu Turley Nikola, a hydrogen-electric semi-truck maker, filed Chapter 11 after a spectacular market collapse. With news of another green company going under, the green industry would never have fully developed if the federal government had […]

Speed checks point towards bulker fleet heading for two-tier market

Energy News Beat Dry Cargo Tsuneishi The global bulker fleet is facing a significant slowdown, driven by a combination of factors that are not only causing a decline in average speeds, but also setting the stage for the emergence of what analysts at Veson Nautical believes is a two-tier market. The impact of an ageing […]

Broker platform wars spark debate

Energy News Beat The creation by five major broking houses this month of Ocean Recap has got the industry talking about how the business of fixing is changing, discussion of which forms the lead in the February issue of Splash Extra.  Five of the world’s leading shipbroking firms—Arrow, Gibson Shipbrokers, Howe Robinson, IFCHOR Galbraiths and […]

MSC withdraws megamaxes from Asia – North Europe trade

Energy News Beat MSC In what it describes as a “surprise move”, Alphaliner is reporting Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), the world’s largest containerline, has decided to shift all of its 19,200 to 24,300 teu megamax vessels, currently trading between the Asia and North Europe, to the Asia – Med and Asia – West Africa trades. […]