Moves to unlock the full potential of Japan’s offshore wind industry are underway with the announcement of a task force set up to accelerate the sector’s development. Ambitions are to see the country’s renewables share increase from 16% to 24% by 2030 through a mixture of methods – hydropower being the most sizeable at 9.2%…

On March the 8th, it was International Women’s Day – a day where countries around the globe celebrate women’s social, economic, cultural and political achievements while calling for more gender equality. This International Women’s Day, we spoke with two of our freelancers, Ana Klanšek (Surveyor) and Sarah Newnes (Geophysicist). Read PART 2 now to find…

On March the 8th, it was International Women’s Day – a day where countries around the globe celebrate women’s social, economic, cultural and political achievements while calling for more gender equality. This International Women’s Day, we spoke with two of our freelancers, Ana Klanšek (Surveyor) and Sarah Newnes (Geophysicist). Read PART 1 now to find…

Have you been affected by coronavirus? With major energy companies introducing travel bans to protect employees as major outbreaks of the virus are detected across the world, it’s hard to see how things won’t continue to be impacted. While the debate over whether this is truly a pandemic continues with the World Health Organisation arguing…

Remember Spot the dog from your childhood books? Well, ‘he’ is about to be involved in a ground-breaking series of tests exploring the use of robots and drones on offshore oil and gas installations. And yes – it sort of looks like Spot because it’s yellow and has four legs and walks much like a…

Who doesn’t want to hear forecasts of a jobs boom? Almost 9,000 more people are expected to be recruited into the UK’s underwater engineering industry over the next three years, according to a new report. The figures come from the latest Business Activity Review by Subsea UK, which says the industry has ‘weathered the storm’…

Onshore work on the world’s biggest offshore wind project – Dogger Bank – is underway on the Yorkshire coast. It’s a remarkable feat, capable of powering 4.5m homes once complete – that’s 5% of the electricity demand in the UK. The joint venture between SSE Renewables and Equinor is planned to install capacity of 3.6GW…

As we start a new decade, we caught up with Precise founder Peter Thompson and find out what he’s made of the last 12 months, what to look forward to in 2020 and what you can do to ensure you’re ready for it. “It’s fair to say 2019’s been an odd year – we expected…

The latest Opec+ meeting saw Saudi Arabia spearhead a deal that will lead to some of the industry’s biggest output cuts in a decade, as it tries to prevent a glut and subsequent price hit. The ‘Deceleration of Cooperation’ comes ahead of next year’s expected increases in production from countries, notably the US. As Amrita…

“The summary findings are bleak,” it says. “Countries collectively failed to stop the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that deeper and faster cuts are now required.” There’s no nice way to say it – we’re just not doing enough to tackle carbon emissions. The UN Environment Programme is blunt, and critical. It warns…