10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Aker Solutions wins $235 mln contracts

    12 September 2008

    Aker Solutions has been awarded two contracts by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Korea worth $235 million. Aker said the contracts were for delivery of drilling equipment for two ultra deepwater drillships. Aker Solutions will deliver complete drilling equipment packages consisting of engineering, equipment deliveries and commissioning services. Aker CEO Roald Amundsen said the […]

  • Tuna industry reels from ban; jobless workers on the rise

    26 January 2010

    Local tuna players are feeling the pinch of the closure of the high seas in portions of the Pacific Ocean, with one fishing company informing the Labor department that it was stopping work for six months, a top Labor official confirmed on Monday. Ma. Gloria A. Tango, DoLE-Central Mindanao director, said NH Agro Industrial Corp., […]

  • Belgium: Eleven LNG Tankers Berthed at Zeebrugge in May, Fluxys Says

    1 September 2011

    Fluxys said in a press release yesterday that in the first half of 2011 Fluxys LNG unloaded 41 ships at the LNG terminal in Zeebrugge. The month that particularly stands out is May, with 11 unloaded LNG carriers bringing 1.7 million m³ of LNG (40.8 million MWh) to Belgium, i.e. around 30% more than the […]

  • USA: Japanese Company Challenges Tidal Power Project

    14 August 2012

    Pacific Crossing, a Japanese company that owns an underwater fiberoptic telecommunications cable that connects the U.S. to Asia, expressed its concerns about the tidal power project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the EarthFix news site says. The tidal power pilot project is being developed on the bottom of Puget Sound by Snohomish Public Utility […]

  • Engro’s president steps down

    22 April 2015

    Engro Corporation’s president and chief executive Muhammad Aliuddin Ansari has made a decision to resign from his position, effective May 11, 2015.

  • Saipem hires Rana for diving job in Adriatic

    27 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has awarded RANA a saturation diving contract for the tie-ins at the recently installed platforms Fauzia and Elettra in the Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy. The work scope includes metrology for closing tie-in spools fabrication, tie-in spools installation, riser and riser clamps installation, free-span corrections and assistance to pre-commissioning activities. For this project  RANA […]

  • China to limit foreign investment in shipyards

    19 September 2006

    China plans to cap foreign holdings in the country’s ship makers at 49 percent as the government moves to both maintain control over the fledgling industry and tap overseas know how. Foreign shipbuilders seeking to form joint ventures in China must also transfer their expertise to local partners through the establishment of technology centers, the […]

  • Image of the Day: Cutting through Ice

    12 January 2015

    The image shows US Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star entering an ice field near the Balleny Islands on January 5, 2015, while en route to Antarctica. The ship’s mission is taking place in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation. The 399-foot polar class icebreaker, commissioned in 1976, […]

  • Egypt to Build Wind Turbines on Gulf of Suez

    14 November 2011

    Egyptian energy minister Hassan Yunis has said the government is to launch a tender offer for the installation of wind farms on the Gulf of Suez with a capacity of 200 megawatts, AFP has reported. The wind power plant, scheduled to start work in April 2014, is estimated to cost $500m, with contributions from the […]

  • Petronet: Kochi LNG Terminal Works Almost Complete, India

    4 January 2013

    Petronet LNG of India, the country’s largest LNG importer, said it will commission its Kochi LNG terminal by end of March, local media reported, citing the company’s CEO and Managing Director A K Balyan. The work on the Kochi LNG terminal is almost complete and final testing of some equipment is going on, he said. […]

  • MHI Vestas inks conditional agreement for Seagreen offshore wind project

    2 June 2020
    Project & Tenders

    MHI Vestas has signed a conditional agreement for the delivery of turbines for the Seagreen offshore wind project in the UK. In October last year, the company entered into a preferred supplier agreement with Seagreen Wind Energy Limited to supply and service up to 114 turbines for the 1,140 MW wind farm. Situated over 27km […]

  • Winners of €1 billion European Hydrogen Bank auction revealed, with three maritime projects on the list

    21 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Project & Tenders

    The European Commission (EC) has selected the winners of the second European Hydrogen Bank (EHB), which will receive nearly €1 billion in funding to produce renewable hydrogen, including producers with off-takers in the maritime sector.

  • Cavotec Wins EUR 28 Mln Worth of Orders

    26 February 2014

    Cavotec has won three orders worth a total of more than EUR 28 million for MoorMaster™ automated mooring systems at applications in Australia, Canada and Denmark, one of which – for the St. Lawrence Seaway in Canada – is the largest to date for MoorMaster™, and one of the biggest projects in the history of […]

  • GPC: No Creative Writing – Just the Facts

    15 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Over the past two weeks, several creative articles have claimed that Gladstone Ports Corporation has withheld information from Government departments, or has breached law by not including research reports in the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Western Basin Dredging and Disposal Project. GPC has collated this fact sheet to provide the Gladstone community with […]

  • VARD cuts steel for second Island Offshore hybrid ocean energy construction vessel

    3 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels, Vision

    Norwegian shipbuilder VARD has cut the first steel for the second hybrid power ocean energy construction vessel (OECV) it is building for compatriot shipping group Island Offshore, some four months after the first steel was cut for the first vessel. Island Offshore placed an order with VARD for the design and construction of the first hybrid power […]

  • Von der Leyen: Investment in European hydrogen to grow by 140% in 2024

    8 November 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Investment in European hydrogen is set to grow by 140% in 2024, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

  • WestSide Focused on Increasing Meridian SeamGas Production (Australia)

    26 February 2013

    WestSide Corporation said it remains focused on increasing aggregate gas production from the Meridian SeamGas gas fields near Moura in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. WestSide reported an operating loss from continuing operations for the six months to 31 December 2012 of $5.6 million (2011: $5.3m). The previous corresponding 2011 result included an additional $3.7 million profit […]

  • Europe widens horizons for renewables research with €40M call

    6 August 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Union has opened a €40 million funding call to support research and innovation activities meant to advance renewable energy technologies and operations.

  • Royal Research Ship Discovery Named, UK

    11 October 2013

    A new, state-of-the-art research ship for UK marine science – RRS Discovery – was named by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton on Thursday, October 10. Around 200 guests, including the Science Minister David Willetts, local MPs, civic guests and senior figures from the UK’s marine science community […]

  • Leland Plans to Purchase Dredging Vessel

    9 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The Leland Township Harbor Commission is currently raising funds in an effort to purchase a dredger, Leland Michigan Chamber of Commerce has announced on its official website. “We have identified a particular size and type of dredger that we think would be suitable for our needs, and we have a price quote of approximately $500.000,” Leland […]

  • Ithaca secures access to Norpipe pipeline for Stella

    22 June 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Ithaca Energy has secured access to the Norpipe oil pipeline system allowing oil exports from the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, in the UK North Sea, to transfer from tanker export to pipeline export during 2017.  Following Petrofac’s progress report on Tuesday regarding the sail-away of the FPF1 production platform meant for the GSA, Ithaca Energy, the […]

  • EU Strategy for Revitalisation of Marine Economy in Atlantic Includes LNG Infrastructure

    4 June 2013

    On 13 May, the European Commission (EC) adopted an Action Plan to revitalise the marine and maritime economy in the Atlantic Ocean Area. The Plan intends to show how the EU’s Atlantic Member States (Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom), their regions and the Commission can help delivering growth, reducing the Atlantic area’s […]

  • Siemens and MPI Adventure Install All Sandbank Turbines

    23 January 2017
    Storage

    The installation vessel MPI Adventure and Siemens have installed all 72 turbines at the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm three months sooner than initially planned. The final Siemens SWT-4.0 130 turbine was installed on Saturday, 21 January, Vattenfall, the majority owner and developer of the wind farm, said. The first Sandbank wind turbine was installed at the end of […]

  • ECN Carries Out Wind Studies for Two Borssele Bidders

    19 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Two unnamed offshore wind developers bidding for the 700MW Borssele I and II projects asked the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) to assess their designs in advance to further solidify their business cases and instill confidence in investors. Ten project developers are in the running for a permit to develop the two 350MW wind farms off the coast of Zeeland, […]

  • Germany: ABB to Connect Sandbank to SylWin Alpha

    21 October 2013
    Storage

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a significant order from the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT to supply an AC (alternating current) power transmission link connecting Sandbank, an offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, to the HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station SylWin alpha. The link will have the […]