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  • Tallink takes delivery of LNG-fueled shuttle ferry

    7 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Tallink Superfast Ltd, a subsidiary of Estonian shipping company Tallink Grupp, has taken delivery of the new fast passenger ferry MyStar from Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC). Described as “the newest and most technologically advanced vessel on the Baltic Sea”, MyStar was delivered on 7 December and will start operating on 13 December from […]

  • Ridderflex Equips GeoSea for Inter-Array Cable Connection

    9 November 2017

    Dutch company Ridderflex has produced and delivered about 180 customised polyurethane hang-offs and plugs to GeoSea, the company now using these tools to connect the inter-array cables to the wind turbines at Belgian Rentel offshore wind farm.

  • USA: Commission OKs Funding for Port of Los Angeles Dredging

    21 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Los Angeles Harbor Commission yesterday approved $7.5 million for the final phase of the Port of Los Angeles’ Main Channel Deepening Project (MCDP). The project has taken the Port’s main navigational channels and basins to a 53-foot depth, ensuring that the nation’s number one gateway for containerized trade can accommodate container ships of all […]

  • Denmark: Dong to Solely Maintain Anholt OWF after Five Years

    3 October 2013

    Since spring 2012, DONG Energy has systematically established the operations organisation, which has gradually taken over operation and maintenance of the Anholt Offshore Wind Farm. In the first five-year warranty period, DONG Energy will operate and be responsible for maintenance of the wind farm in cooperation with turbine supplier, Siemens Wind Power, but after the […]

  • Putin kicks off pipeline work from ‘Pioneering Spirit’

    26 June 2017

    Russian president Vladimir Putin has symbolically launched the process connecting the shallow and deepwater sections of the TurkStream pipeline in the Black Sea. According to the Kremlin statement on Friday, Putin launched the process from aboard the Pioneering Spirit, the world’s largest offshore construction vessel, in the presence of Alexey Miller, Gazprom CEO. After the […]

  • Poland: Treasury Minister Visits Swinoujscie LNG Terminal Site

    26 September 2012

    Minister of Treasury, Mikołaj Budzanowski, on Monday, paid a visit to the construction site of the LNG Terminal in Świnoujście, the key investment for Poland’s energy security. This was the first Minister’ visit at the site since the successful operation – air-raising of roofs on both LNG storage tanks. The purpose of Mr. Budzanowski’s visit […]

  • Aqaba Port Strike Ended

    22 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) reports that port workers at the Aqaba Container Terminals (ACT) facility in Jordan run by APM Terminals have ended their strike after reaching a deal with the company’s management. Workers represented by the ITF-affiliated General Union of Port Workers went on strike last week over contract changes and ACT management’s […]

  • First Merkur Transition Pieces En Route to Eemshaven

    17 October 2017

    The first 6 of the total of 66 transition pieces (TPs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm have been loaded onto a vessel in Spain and will now set sail to Eemshaven, according to social media updates by those involved in the transport and logistics of the TPs.

  • First Merkur Transition Pieces En Route to Eemshaven

    17 October 2017

    The first 6 of the total of 66 transition pieces (TPs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm have been loaded onto a vessel in Spain and will now set sail to Eemshaven, according to social media updates by those involved in the transport and logistics of the TPs.

  • Island Innovator Tilts in Hanøytangen. Workers Evacuated

    31 May 2013

    Island Innovator semi-submersible rig, on a yard-stay in Hanøytangen, Norway, has been evacuated after it tilted 4 degrees, a local news site has reported. According to Bergens Tidende news portal, 63 people have been taken off the facility in a peaceful manner. Around 4 o’clock this morning, the rig , docked at Hanøytangen yard, took […]

  • Japex, Shell, Chevron Win Exploration Acreage Off Greenland

    24 December 2013

    Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. has announced that through Greenland Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., it was successful in the 2012/2013 Licensing Round in Greenland Sea Area, Greenland Self-Government, and won the two offshore explorations licenses, Block 9 and Block 14, in Kanumas Area, northeastern part of offshore Greenland, jointly with Chevron and Shell. The Joint […]

  • New Zealand: RCCNZ Continues to Monitor Fishing Boat that Caught Fire

    13 September 2012

      All 43 crew of the 64m New Zealand fishing boat Amaltal Columbia, owned by Talley’s, have abandoned ship and been transferred to two other fishing vessels following a fire on board, approximately 70km north-east of Lyttelton Heads. A total of 39 members of the crew are now safely on board the Russian fishing vessel, […]

  • LLOG takes over Buckskin project from Repsol

    16 January 2017
    Project & Tenders

    U.S.-based oil company LLOG Exploration has taken over operatorship of the Buckskin project in the Gulf of Mexico from the Spanish oil firm Repsol. A Repsol spokesperson has told Offshore Energy Today that LLOG was named the operator of the Buckskin unit and that Repsol currently owns 22.5 percent interest in the leases. The company has […]

  • Centrica swings job axe in Aberdeen

    11 January 2017

    UK energy company Centrica has reduced its Aberdeen exploration and production division workforce by 25 employees. The company’s spokesman told Offshore Energy Today on Wednesday that the reduction of the Aberdeen team meant it the now employs just over 310 people. “After a full consultation with our people, we have taken the difficult but necessary decision […]

  • Toho Gas inks LNG Canada supply deal

    10 October 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Japanese utility, Toho Gas on Wednesday signed a deal with Diamond Gas International for the supply of liquefied natural gas from the recently sanctioned LNG Canada project in Kitimat, Canada. 

  • Woodside CEO Coleman gets pay cut

    1 March 2017

    Australian LNG player Woodside revealed on Tuesday that its Chief Executive Peter Coleman has taken a nearly $850,000 pay cut despite the fact that the company posted a jump in its profit last year. Coleman, who has been at the helm of Woodside since 2011, received $6.71 million in total compensation in 2016, as compared to $7.55 […]

  • Maran Gas of Greece adds two LNG tankers to its fleet

    25 January 2017
    Vessels

    Maran Gas Maritime, a unit of Greece’s Angelicoussis Shipping Group, has during the month of January taken delivery of two brand new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. The Greek-flagged 174,000-cbm Maran Gas Ulysses was built and delivered at Hyundai Samho, a unit of South Korea’s shipbuilding giant Hyundai Heavy Industries. The second vessel, named Maran […]

  • Finland: €80 million for renewables and new energy technology

    2 March 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    The Government of Finland has approved the investment aid scheme for renewable energy and new energy technologies as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to achieve national and EU climate goals. The Government plans to allocate a total of €80 million for the investment aid in 2017 and 2018, for investments of more than €5 […]

  • Oil & Gas UK: Action required to sustain investment in UK continental shelf

    13 March 2015

    The latest in a series of meetings with political leaders, today (March 13, 2015) Oil & Gas UK met with Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party and local candidate Alexander Burnett in Aberdeen. The leading trade association discussed the important role the offshore oil and gas industry plays in both […]

  • Norway: Hundreds of oil service workers laid off amid strike action

    28 September 2016

    Around 350 oil service workers have been laid off in Norway as a result of a strike action that started a week ago.  To remind, over 300 oil service workers went on strike after mediation over the collective oil service agreement between the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association and the Norwegian union of Industri Energi […]

  • Update: ‘Transocean Winner’ tow slower than expected

    24 August 2016

    The semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner is on the final approach to Broad Bay as part of the towing operation to remove it from Dalmore Bay, where it had been grounded for two weeks after having been hit by a severe storm. According to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s statement on Wednesday, it was likely […]

  • Exmar takes steps to increase liquidity

    9 July 2019

    Belgium’s Exmar, the Nicolas Saverys-led shipowner, said it has repaid its outstanding bond financing it through a new $75 million bond issuance and its available resources. 

  • EMO Welcomes World’s Largest Dry Bulk Vessel (The Netherlands)

    26 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    EMO (HES Beheer economic interest 36.6%) today welcomed the “Vale Italia”, a “Very Large Ore Carrier” on her terminal, at Rotterdam’s Maasvlakte. This magnificent new vessel carries 380,000 tonnes of iron ore for the German steel industry. EMO will unload the “Vale Italia” in approximately 4 days using two 85-tonne grab unloaders. At 362 metres […]

  • Gazprom, Primorye Territory Sign Vladivostok LNG MoU

    21 November 2013

    Gazprom’s Chairman Alexey Miller and Vladimir Miklushevsky, Governor of the Primorye Territory, discussed the large-scale activities carried out by Gazprom in the region as well as the prospects for cooperation. Special attention was paid to the LNG plant construction project (Vladivostok-LNG). It was noted that the implementation of this project would be highly conducive to […]

  • APLNG, QCLNG agree to share infrastructure

    5 November 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Two liquefied natural gas export projects on Queensland’s Curtis Island, Australia Pacific LNG and QCLNG have agreed long-term infrastructure sharing.