Tag: Denmark

The Danish Energy Agency gave permission for Greensand's pilot project. The project includes the injection and storage of up to 15,000 tonnes of CO2 in the former Nini West oil field over a four-month period.

On November 28, a Danish court found a Nigerian man guilty of endangering the lives of Danish soldiers in a shooting incident on November 2021, involving the Danish frigate Esbern Snare and a crew of alleged Nigerian pirates in the Gulf of Guinea.

Nigeria wants to prosecute Danish forces that were involved in the exchange of fire with alleged pirates in the Gulf of Guinea in November 2021. The African country also demands the release of a citizen that is being tried in Denmark after a fatal firefight.

A German captain was charged for being drunk in control of a container ship that grounded off Denmark, on October 28.

The captain of a Lithuanian-owned general cargo vessel has been fined DKK 10,000 ($1,300) in Denmark due to a double grounding.

Danish companies, including Maersk, FLSmidth, Ørsted and Vestas among others, called on the Danish politicians and government to maintain sustainability at the top of their priorities, supporting innovation and advocating for the right regulations to boost investments and urgently accelerate the green transition.

Due to the damage to the Nord Stream gas lines in the Baltic Sea, an enormous amount of methane gas has been released into the atmosphere. The leak is estimated to equal the size of a whole year's methane emissions for a city the size of Paris or a country like Denmark. 

Denmark imposed a no-shipping zone in Baltic Sea after Nord Stream pipeline gas leak, while concerns over what a might a sabotage action increase.

Tankers of Russian oil sailing through the Danish straits will be more possible to crash and spill their cargoes if they sail through the shallow dangerous waters without the specialist pilots usually provided to vessels in the channel, Denmark’s maritime authority has warned.

Denmark's maritime traffic agency warned ships to steer clear of a 5-nautical-mile (9.25-kilometer) radius off of the Danish island of Bornholm after a suspected gas leak overnight from the defunct Nord Stream 2 pipeline.