Maersk and The Ocean Cleanup Forge Ahead in Plastic Capture
Offshore vessel owner Maersk Supply Service, A.P. Moller – Maersk, and The Ocean Cleanup have agreed to extend their collaboration to complete the validation of the system by The Ocean Cleanup which is said to be able to consistently capture significant quantities of plastic from the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, which has established the plastic capture system said the next step for The Ocean Cleanup is to validate the system from an engineering and ecological perspective, allowing it to demonstrate to governments, institutions and other funders that there is a viable technology available
Maersk Vessels Transmit Live Weather Data to Meteorologists
Container shipping giant A.P. Moller - Maersk said it has teamed up with National Meteorological Service of Germany, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) to install automated weather stations enabling a portion of its fleet to transmit live data to help forecast weather and climate.In the largest project of its kind, A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) has installed automated weather stations (AWS) on 50 of its vessels creating a pulsating oceanic web of weather and climate observations. All collected data is transmitted live to the National Meteorological Service of Germany, DWD, supporting their weather forecasts
Michael Johnson, Sea Machines: MTR's #3 Ocean Influencer
, giant corprations. “A quick-moving venture capital backed company like ours needs to wisely chart our course,” said Johnson. “Part of that is through the relationships we have in the industry. And you see the partnerships that we’ve jointly announced going back to 2018 with AP Moller Maersk, and then last year major strategic alliance with Huntington Ingalls and Hamilton Jet and this year with Damen.” (Note: at press time Rolls-Royce and Sea Machines signed a partnership agreement to cooperate on smart ship and autonomous ship control solutions).“Autonomous operations
Maersk Heads Drive to Decarbonize Shipping Sector
The world's largest container shipper, A.P. Moller-Maersk, will team up with industry majors to set up a research center in Denmark with the aim of reducing carbon emissions in the shipping industry.Denmark's Maersk, which aims to be carbon-neutral by 2050, said on Thursday the research center would combine knowledge from industry, academia and regulators towards "decarbonizing" the industry by developing carbon-neutral fuel and technologies.The shipping industry, which carries around 80% of global trade and accounts for around 3% of global carbon emissions, pledged last year to have
Maersk Signs on to Help Clean up Ocean Plastic
,” Karstensen said.Maersk Launcher is currently on charter by DeepGreen, who has released it so that Maersk Supply Service can perform the operation for The Ocean Cleanup. The charter cost of providing the installation vessel for deployment of the first cleanup system is shared between A.P. Moller - Maersk and DeepGreen. The total contribution to The Ocean Cleanup project is around $2 million in vessel services and equipment which also includes providing transportation of equipment needed for the installation of Cleanup System 001, from the U.K. and Denmark to San Francisco, as well as providing
Maersk Likely to Shelve Plans to List Drilling Division
Shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk is likely to shelve plans to list its struggling offshore drilling division because of weak market conditions, according to five finance sources familiar with the matter.The Danish company is now expected to focus on a trade sale of Maersk Drilling, and extend the timeline to divest the unit beyond its initial target of the end of 2018, said the sources who declined to be named as the discussions are private.Maersk group has not publicly put a price tag on the division, but analysts value it at around $4.8 billion.It has not yet received any firm offers for the unit
Offshore Rig Firms See End to Historic Downturn
to help it to emerge from Chapter 11 proceedings next August. "We have decided to restructure our finances so we can build a bridge to the upturn in the industry when fleet utilisation and day rates return to more normal levels," Seadrill said. Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk is seeking buyers for its unlisted Maersk Drilling unit, industry and investor sources said. "After the worst downturn in history, we have entered the recovery phase," said Gunnar Eliassen, director at Northern Drilling, a new rig company set up with Fredriksen. (By
Maersk Oil CEO to Step Down after Total Takeover
been completed, Maersk said Wednesday. Watkins joined Maersk Oil as Chief Operating Officer in January 2014 and took the role of CEO in October last year. Prior to joining Maersk Oil, she had worked at Marathon Oil and BP. Total agreed last month to buy the oil and gas business of A.P. Moller-Maersk for $7.45 billion, strengthening the French major's operations in the North Sea. The current COO at Maersk Oil, Martin Rune Pedersen, will become vice president of Total's operations in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, Maersk said. Troels Albrechtsen, who is Chief Technology
Norway Wants Oil Companies to Use Technology to Boost Output
;Traditionally EOR was regarded as tail production technology, but we think that the earlier the better, also in this particular case (of Johan Sverdrup)," NPD assistant director Arvid Oesthus said. The partners in the field are Statoil, Lundin , Aker BP, Petoro and Maersk Oil, a unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk. Statoil was not immediately available to comment on the cost impact for production from Johan Sverdrup, but the company has previously said that the break-even costs for the first development phase were below $25 a barrel. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis
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