5498 results found for 'Goliat'

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  • 2022 brings bumper profits for U.S. oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil

    1 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    U.S. oil and gas majors Chevron and ExxonMobil have revealed record 2022 profits of $35.5 billion and $55.7 billion, respectively.

  • Oman: Two LNG Companies Merge

    2 September 2013

    The Sultanate’s liquefied natural gas industry entered a new era on September 1st assuming a bolder, more unified front with the fusion of the country’s only two liquefied natural gas companies, Oman LNG and Qalhat LNG, into one fully integrated entity. Unanimously approved by the shareholders of both formerly distinct corporations, Sunday marked the first […]

  • Energy transition: Will the Netherlands lead the private investment charge?

    20 April 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Rules & Regulation

    Moving from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to more sustainable forms of energy is an area of major focus in the Netherlands as it is across Europe, but investing in energy transition involves navigating complex regulatory systems and bridging crucial knowledge gaps. On 28 November 2019, the European Parliament declared a global climate and environmental emergency. MEPs, […]

  • Two Important New Offshore Windfarm Contracts Signed by Nordsee – GeoSea (both DEME Group) in German Waters

    31 August 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Joint Venture Nordsee Nassbagger- und Tiefbau Gmbh – GeoSea NV, both of them members of the Belgian dredging, marine engineering and environmental Group DEME, has been awarded two different contracts for prepiling and installation works to construct both the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, 32 km north of the island of Rügen, and the […]

  • UK oil & gas firm boosts its stake in two Angolan offshore blocks

    19 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Afentra has inked a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Azule Energy Angola Production to boost its stake in two blocks offshore Angola.

  • Coronavirus crisis forces Aker BP to delay projects and exploration wells

    23 March 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Aker BP is putting on hold all non-sanctioned field development projects, postponing exploration wells and reducing production costs in order to reduce spending in response to uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis.

  • Türkiye holds LNG supply talks with ExxonMobil while setting the stage to search for oil in Black Sea

    29 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Türkiye is going all out to wean itself from its dependence on foreign natural gas, as demonstrated by the ongoing LNG negotiations with ExxonMobil.

  • Creating a smooth transition from operation to cessation

    20 February 2017

    By Lloyd’s Register Life before decommissioning Moving to late-field life is a tough decision to take for any operator, but it can mean more than entering ‘lighthouse mode’ to delay decommissioning liabilities. Radically leaner models of working, coupled with rigorous asset management, will help at a stage that demands a relentless focus on production optimisation, […]

  • Op-ed: The digital age of sails

    16 August 2024
    Infrastructure, IT & Software, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    In shipping’s modern age, harnessing wind power is as much about adopting solutions like weather routing and voyage optimisation as it is about the physical wind-assisted propulsion system (WAPS) itself.

  • COSCO blacklisted: Sanctions signal new front in US-China (maritime) rivalry

    9 January 2025
    Authorities & Government

    China’s state-owned COSCO Shipping Holdings has been placed on the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) sanctions list, together with 130 other Chinese companies, for their alleged ties to the country’s military. As informed, the primary objective of this list, which now comprises a total of 134 companies, is to restrict the entities’ economic and technological interactions […]

  • Denmark bans scrubber discharge from ships to prevent pollution of marine environment

    18 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Rules & Regulation

    The Danish government has prohibited the discharge of scrubber water from ships into the marine environment within 22 kilometers of the Danish coasts.

  • Big oil to keep capital investment taps closed despite collecting $283 bln in 2022, says Westwood

    17 February 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Westwood looks into the conundrum concerning the cashflow and capex of five supermajors: BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies.

  • Clock is ticking for the future of tidal stream energy in UK, industry warns

    23 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Leading figures in the marine energy sector have warned that the UK’s world-leading position in tidal energy can only be maintained with ‘practical support from Government to match its undoubted goodwill’.

  • Day of the Seafarer 2020: It’s time for the EU to resolve crew change crisis

    25 June 2020
    Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    On the Day of the Seafarer 2020, European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) are calling upon EU institutions and member states to start acting to resolve the current crew change crisis.

  • U.S. climate bill promotes clean energy but ‘does not arbitrarily shut off’ oil and gas

    28 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The package is said to promote zero and low carbon energy and support domestic production of offshore oil and gas.

  • Canada: Sonde Resources Reports Year End 2010 Financial and Operating Results

    25 March 2011

      Sonde Resources Corp. announced today the release of its financial and operating results for the year ended December 31, 2010. Financial and Operating Highlights In Western Canada, Sonde focused capital activity on its extensive behind-pipe inventory, deploying $4.3 million to complete 12 re-entries (75% economic success rate) and 19 separate work-overs (100% economic success […]

  • In focus: Offshore industry forms decarbonization tie-ups, as need for more renewable energy investments grows

    1 July 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    Despite the projections stating the global energy investments are to reach $2.4 trillion this year, much more is still needed to successfully tackle the issues of energy security and climate crises globally

  • Germany: 500 Experts Expected at SMM Offshore Dialogue

    29 May 2012

    Some 500 industry experts are expected at the SMM Offshore Dialogue, hosted for the second time by Hamburg Messe, with support from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). The workshop is to be held in the framework of SMM 2012, the world’s leading maritime industry fair, at the Hamburg Fair site. The focus […]

  • ExxonMobil denies climate research stories after attacks by U.S. senators

    22 October 2015

    ExxonMobil Corporation, an American multinational oil and gas corporation, on Wednesday denied media allegations claiming the company was aware of the role of fossil fuels in global warming after several U.S. politicians asked for federal investigation to be launched. Namely, following an eight-month investigation, InsideClimate News, a news organization covering clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and […]

  • USA: University of Delaware Conducts Offshore Energy Surveys

    9 October 2012

    The University of Delaware’s Kent Messer leads a research team that is conducting two studies at the Delaware coast to determine how people would react to offshore energy production and how that could impact the state’s economy. The first study was conducted at Cape Henlopen and Rehoboth Beach and involved students surveying beachgoers to see […]

  • US urged to turn down ‘flawed application’ to fast-track LNG player’s pending export permit

    19 July 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    U.S. DOE was urged to reject the request for immediate action on an application to export LNG from Lake Charles to non-FTA countries.

  • Sweden: New Technology Multiplies Marine Energy Potential

    2 May 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    New technology for harvesting energy from low velocity ocean and tidal currents multiplies the potential for marine energy. Written by Anders Jansson, CEO, Minesto  Marine energy – for instance energy from tidal and ocean currents – is the ‘best of the best’ amongst green energy sources: it has the greatest potential (in theory, the planet’s […]

  • 55 Million People Live Near Offshore Wind Power (USA)

    16 November 2011

    NRG Bluewater Wind President Peter Mandelstam used the proceeds from the 2001 sale of a wind project he built in Montana to found Bluewater Wind and focus on ocean wind. “I stopped doing on-land projects,” Mandelstam said, “because I could see the market was crowded, all the best sites were going to be taken up […]

  • Wood Group fined in deadly offshore platform fire case

    24 February 2017

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday ordered Wood Group PSN, a Houston-based division of an oil and gas services company Wood Group, to pay $9.5 million in two separate cases involving its conduct in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting over several years […]

  • Update: Pirates board offshore vessel in Nigeria

    5 December 2018

    An offshore vessel was reportedly attacked and boarded by pirates on Tuesday while on its way to an FPSO offshore Nigeria.