Transition To Low-Carbon Sources Creates A New Set Of Concerns

The OPEC+ countries held their latest regular monthly meeting, by videoconference as usual, and agreed to increase production by 432,000 barrels per day in...

All You Need To Know About Covid Right Now

Chinese authorities extended a lockdown in Shanghai to cover all of the financial centre's 26 million people on Tuesday after city-wide testing saw new...

Gilead’s Remdesivir Fails To Show Benefit

Two drugs that looked like promising treatments for COVID-19 in preliminary studies - remdesivir for hospitalized patients and camostat for patients who are not...

China To Dominate Critical Fields Warns Schmidt

Eric Schmidt has taken on big challenges before, fighting Microsoft when he led Novell and taking on Brussels when he was CEO at Google....

Crude Price Rises As An Outcome Of Additional Russian Sanctions

ICE Brent rises $1.11/b to $108.64/b India to continue buying Russian oil After declining during the week ended April 1, oil prices are gaining...

Omicron Sub-Variant BA.2 Accounts For Three-Fourth Of COVID Variants In U.S.

The BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron was estimated to account for 72.2% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of April 2, the...

Could “Robot Ships” Be the Future Of Ship Hull Maintenance?

A Marine Insight article discusses the prospect of robots in ship hull maintenance. Vessel maintenance is crucial The maintenance of ocean-going vessels is of prime importance....

Gard Releases New Rules To Protect Endangered Right Whales

Masters and crews operating along the US/Canadian East Coast must maintain a good lookout for right whales and follow the speed restrictions in force...

UK Commissions Review Into Latest Science on Fracking

'Right' that all production methods be kept on the table: BEIS Report on shale gas developments expected by end-June Moratorium on fracking in...

Wärtsilä & Partners Speed Up Ammonia Engine Development

A consortium of shipping stakeholders have announced that they are aiming to develop demonstrators for two-stroke and four-stroke marine engines running on ammonia fuel,...