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  • Australia: Cutter Suction Dredging in Gladstone Harbour Halted

    25 January 2012

    As part of the adaptive approach to manage the dredging project, a voluntary suspension of cutter suction dredging is in place. Yesterday, cutter suction dredging operations were stopped. The decision was taken in response to high turbidity recordings in the Western Basin to allow turbidity levels to return to normal as soon as possible. All […]

  • Florida East Coast Railway completes mainline fleet conversion to LNG

    16 November 2017

    Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway completed the conversion of its entire mainline thru-haul fleet to run on liquefied natural gas (LNG). 

  • Siemens and GeoSea Ink EPCI Foundation Contract for Hohe See OWF

    24 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    DEME Group’s offshore marine engineering division GeoSea and Siemens have concluded an EPCI foundation contract for the 497MW Hohe See offshore wind farm, currently the biggest planned offshore wind project in Germany.  GeoSea’s EPCI contract includes the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of 71 foundations consisting of a monopile and a transition piece. The Hohe […]

  • Laser Cutting Technology Imperative for High Standards

    29 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Laser cutting technology has become imperative in order to achieve the high standards of work that are expected within the superyacht industry. The laser cutting process is highly accurate; yielding excellent cut quality, small kerf width and small heat affected zones, making it possible to cut very intricate shapes and small holes. Industry experts claim […]

  • IHC Merwede Appoints New CEO

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede has appointed Bram Roelse as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with immediate effect as of 1 April 2014. He has taken over this leading role within the company from predecessor Dirk Philips who stepped back in November 2013. Mr Roelse (56) has worked at IHC Merwede for the past 13 years. […]

  • UK: Scotrenewables Hosts Sanday Junior High School Pupils at Its Wave Test Centre

    4 June 2013
    Human Capital

    Scotrenewables hosted a group of pupils from Sanday Junior High School this week at its Wave Test Centre facility in Stromness.   The pupils were testing their own generating wave device – “The Urchin” in the test tank. Their work has already taken them to the finals of this year’s Junior Saltire Prize, a marine energy […]

  • Burges Salmon Advises on Good Energy’s Tidal Energy Investment

    23 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Burges Salmon has advised renewable electricity supplier Good Energy Group PLC on its first tidal energy project investment, the Tidal Lagoon in Swansea Bay, Wales. It is anticipated that the Swansea Bay project being developed by Tidal Lagoon (Swansea Bay) Plc will deliver renewable power to approximately 155,000 homes in Swansea and will annually save […]

  • UAE: DolWin Structure Components in Position

    9 December 2013

    Drydocks World lifted the 10,000-tonne topside of the first gravity base of the semi-submersible and world’s largest offshore HVDC platform structure DolWin beta to a height of 52.8 metres from the dock bottom. On Saturday the substructure was moved in position under the topside. Project Director at Aibel, Kjetil V. Jacobsen, reported that the mating […]

  • Somali Pirates Hijack Cargo Vessel off Yemen

    3 April 2017

    Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo vessel en route from Dubai to either Bosasso, Somalia or Al Mukalla, Yemen, in the vicinity of Socotra, Dryad Maritime told World Maritime News referring to the data from United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO). The vessel is believed to have been taken to Eyl, Somalia on April 1st. Up […]

  • New York to introduce its ‘first-ever’ hybrid-electric ferry

    14 August 2025
    Collaboration, Innovation, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    The Trust for Governors Island, a non-profit organization founded by the City of New York, has unveiled the Empire State’s ‘first’ hybrid-elec­tric pub­lic fer­ry, the Harbour Charger. As disclosed, the arrival of the hybrid-electric Harbour Charger marked a ‘landmark’ moment for both Governors Island and New York State’s efforts to facilitate sus­tain­able mar­itime trans­porta­tion. The […]

  • Congressman Graves Named Chairman of Water Resources Subcommittee

    27 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Congressman Garret Graves was named Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on January 23. The Subcommittee oversees water resources development and regulatory programs administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. As Chairman, Graves will play an expanded role in shaping legislation to […]

  • Oceana Kicks Off Quark Area Survey Between Finland and Sweden

    4 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Oceana has launched a 20-day expedition to survey important areas of marine life in the Quark (also known as Kvarken or Merenkurkku), between Finland and Sweden. The organisation’s second research project in the Quark is generously funded by the Swedish Postcode Lottery and will build on Oceana’S initial surveys of the region in 2011 and […]

  • Top Five Interviews in 2014

    24 December 2014

    Today we bring you top interviews Offshore WIND team made over the course of 2014. Alstom Taking Big Offshore Wind Steps  At the WindEnergy event held in Hamburg, Offshore WIND spoke to Markus Rieck, General Manager of ALSTOM Renewable Germany GmbH. The company proves its position as one of the biggest renewable energy players with […]

  • Alphaliner: Spot Freight Rates Likely to Fall Further

    3 March 2015

    Liner spot rates on the Asia-North Europe market have dipped below USD 900/teu due to lower volumes in the post-Lunar New Year lull in the Far East, according to industry analyst Alphaliner. Since the beginning of this year, weaker utilisation levels have driven down spot rates on the Far East-North Europe route despite carriers’ attempts […]

  • Wave Energy, Aquaculture Industries Partner Up

    20 October 2015

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), has announced a £720,000 partnership, which will demonstrate wave energy converters as a means of powering offshore aquaculture installations and potentially, remote island communities. Wave energy technology developer, Albatern, is behind the commercial demonstration and has teamed up with one of the world’s […]

  • Depail Re-Elected as GIE President (Belgium)

    30 May 2012

    Jean-Claude Depail, Executive Vice-President of GDF SUEZ in charge of the Infrastructures business line, has been re-elected President of Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) for a two-year term by the General Meeting of GIE, which met in Krakow on May 24 and 25, 2012 for its 10th annual conference. GIE, which has 70 members in twenty-five […]

  • Rising LNG sales bump Petronas’ profit in volatile market

    20 September 2019

    Malaysian energy giant Petronas reported rising liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales in the first half of the year despite challenging conditions and lower commodity prices.

  • Gallery: Cracked Bulker Stuck in Mexico to Be Scuttled

    30 October 2015

    Cracked Mexican bulk carrier Los Llanitos, which is stuck on the rocks near Barra de Navidad, a small town located on the western coastline of the Mexican state of Jalisco, since October 23rd, will be sunk, according to Mexican authorities. However, before the vessel is scuttled and converted into an artificial reef, a considerable amount […]

  • Norway: October oil output hit by strike action

    23 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil production in October 2020 was below forecast by the NPD due to effects of strike action as well as maintenance operations on some fields.

  • Norway: Oil production above NPD’s prognosis

    17 June 2014

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced preliminary production figures for May 2014 which indicate an average daily production of about 1 665 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 282 000 barrels per day (about 14 percent) less than in April 2014. Total gas sales were about 8.2 billion Sm3, which is 0.8 GSm3 […]

  • April production beats NPD’s forecast

    13 May 2014

    Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced that preliminary production figures for April 2014 indicate an average daily production of about 1 918 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 30 000 barrels per day (about 1.5 percent) less than in March 2014. Total gas sales were about 9.0 billion Sm3, which is 1.4 GSm3 less […]

  • PSA audits Statfjord A safety management

    14 October 2014
    Equipment, Project & Tenders

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil’s management of the domains of electrical installations, safety instrumented systems and technical safety at Statfjord A platform, in the North Sea.  The Statfjord field is in the Tampen area, in the northern part of the North Sea, offshore Norway. Statfjord A is […]

  • Serica CFO resigns to join another oil company

    6 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Serica Energy’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Hearne has informed the company that he will resign from his position in order to take up a senior position in another listed oil and gas company. Hearne has agreed to remain with Serica until 31 May 2015 in order to oversee the completion of the Erskine field transaction and the publication […]

  • Norway: March liquids production ascends

    17 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has released preliminary production figures for March 2015 which show an average daily production of about 1 935 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 3 000 barrels per day (about 0.2 percent) more than in February 2015. Total gas sales were about 10.9 billion Sm3, which is 0.9 […]

  • Deep Excavation System from Van Oord

    5 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    Over the past few years, Van Oord has developed a new technique for dredging at great water depths. This Deep Excavation System (DES), patented by Van Oord, is an innovative method to prepare a sea bottom profile for installing offshore pipelines. Uneven sea beds are traditionally prepared for laying offshore pipelines by installing large volumes […]