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  • Biden administration hit with one more lawsuit over LNG permitting freeze

    23 May 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    A new lawsuit has been filed to challenge the LNG permitting ban to non-FTA countries in the United States.

  • Zodiac’s tanker escapes pirate clutches off Somalia Coast

    27 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    A chemical tanker flying the Liberian flag, initially reported as targeted and boarded by pirates on Sunday morning off the coast of Somalia, has been successfully freed, the U.S. Central Command confirmed. The 22 crew members, who were onboard the Liberian-flagged Central Park (IMO: 9725823), owned by UK-based Zodiac Maritime, are confirmed to be safe […]

  • Port of Lisbon Dredging Project Shortlisted for ESPO Award

    23 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The next project shortlisted for this year’s ESPO comes from Lisbon and looks at new ways to preserve the natural environment around the port, while improving its economic prospects and collaboration with society and stakeholders. The 2014 ESPO Awards celebrate the role that ports can play in maintaining the natural environment and contributing to a […]

  • UK: EDF Protects Marine Life at Teesside Offshore Wind Farm

    4 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      As work progresses on the installation of the new Teesside Offshore Windfarm, special measures are being taken to ensure the protection of marine mammals and other wildlife. The wind farm being established by EDF Energy Renewables is located 1.5km off the north east coast at South Gare, Redcar. Work has been ongoing since early […]

  • Piracy Attacks off East Africa Doubled in 2017

    22 May 2018

    The number of piracy incidents doubled off the coast of East Africa in 2017 compared to 2016.

  • AI and clean tech enabling oil boost and emission cuts at world’s second largest offshore field

    19 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ADNOC has decided to move forward with a phased development plan to expand a giant offshore oil field, increasing output through new technologies while curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to ensure more sustainable operations.

  • ILO seeks to map gaps in Pakistan’s shipbreaking sector in the wake of HKC

    30 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Collaboration, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Transition

    The International Labor Organization (ILO) has opened submissions from qualified consultants to conduct a diagnostic study of the ship recycling value chain in Pakistan.  According to officials from the ILO, the study is to inform national action planning by mapping ‘key’ stakeholders, pinpointing policy gaps and examining training needs, particularly in the context of Pakistan’s […]

  • Kenya: Cove Energy Plc Signs Farm-in Agreement with DEPCO for 5 Offshore Blocks

    28 July 2010
    Business & Finance

    Cove Energy plc  the AIM quoted upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, announced that it has concluded a conditional farm in agreement with Dynamic Energy Exploration and Production Corporation (“DEPCO”) to acquire a 15% participating interest in five contiguous deepwater blocks L5, L7, L11A & B and L12 (the “Blocks”) covering an […]

  • SLPA, KDU in Collaborative Step to Commence Diploma Course in Port Security (Sri Lanka)

    27 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) commences a Special Diploma Course on Port Security for the security personnel of the institution. The course is conducted in collaboration with the Sir John Kothalawala Defense University (KDU) in Rathmalana. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for this Diploma Course on Port Security was signed on 24th July 2012 at […]

  • Energean sees uplift in Karish North volumes, adds to development plan

    9 April 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    An independent competent persons report for Energean’s Karish North field, located offshore Israel, has revealed a significant uplift to the company’s previous best estimate of the field’s volumes and submitted an addendum to the field development plan.

  • BOEM approves Shell’s Chukchi Sea drilling plan

    12 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has conditionally approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s revised multi-year exploration plan for the Chukchi Sea, offshore Alaska. The exploration plan describes all exploration activities planned by Shell, including the timing of these activities, information concerning drilling rigs, the location of each planned well, and actions to be […]

  • Petrobras Staying Clear of Strait of Hormuz for Now

    9 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Perobras ships will avoid transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

  • Germany: R&D Project HoOK Launched

    23 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    With funding from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and supported by “Projektträger Jülich” (PTJ), over the next three years Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and the maritime engineering company HeavyLift@Sea will conduct research into the improvement of tools for the simulation of offshore crane operations. The project is named HoOK – […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent Breaks World Record for Undersea Data Transmission

    17 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Alcatel-Lucent has broken a new record for the amount of data that can be transmitted over transoceanic distances on a single optical fiber. In a test carried out at Alcatel-Lucent’s Innovation City campus in Villarceaux near Paris, researchers from Bell Labs successfully sent data at speeds of 31 Terabits-per-second (Tbps) over 7200km – a capacity […]

  • With offshore repairs soon to begin, Balticconnector restart set for April

    16 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Offshore repair works for the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, which was shut down in October 2023 due to a rupture, are set to start at the beginning of next month. Estonian transmission system operator (TSO) Elering and its Finnish counterpart Gasgrid closed Balticconnector on the night of October 8, 2023, as the […]

  • Wood Mackenzie: Delays to Panama Canal Expansion Will Affect LNG Trade

    25 February 2014

    Wood Mackenzie expects the recent cost overrun disputes around the Panama Canal expansion to be resolved with limited disruption due to the significance of the Canal to global trade. Significant disruptions will crimp profitability for US LNG producers, create a tighter LNG shipping market and affect the US Gulf Coast petrochemical industry. “Given the enormous […]

  • Ulstein to Design Van Oord’s SRI Newbuild

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    ULSTEIN has been awarded the design and equipment contract for Van Oord’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel ‘Bravenes’. Working in close cooperation with Van Oord, this is the first fully integrated design where ULSTEIN is responsible for the development and integration of both the mission equipment and vessel design. The vessel will be constructed […]

  • New MD Appointed for Damen Shiprepair in Sweden and France

    19 June 2012

    Damen Shiprepair Götaverken aims to be the best within the Nordic countries, according to its new strategy. As part of this focus, Ms Monica Svenner has been appointed as the new MD. Ms Svenner has wide industrial experience as MD for several international companies, such as Stena Recycling and Atlas Copco. She is the first […]

  • NGO Shipbreaking: A third of shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh never shut down during lockdown

    10 July 2020
    Human Capital, Safety, Vessels

    One third of shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh never closed down during the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, NGO Shipbreaking Platform said in its latest report on shipbreaking practices in South Asia. As explained, this has led to workers being exposed to the risk of contracting the virus and spreading it […]

  • Goliat start-up on the horizon with one more approval granted?

    21 January 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Eni Norge has received an approval from the Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet), whose main task is preventing pollution, to start oil production from the Goliat field in the Barents Sea.  The field is located offshore Norway, 85 kilometers northwest of Hammerfest, and it will be the first oil field in the Norwegian sector of the […]

  • Ithaca’s FPF-1 platform moves a step closer to Stella field

    22 July 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Following months of delays, or now, years of delays, Ithaca Energy’s FPF-1 production platform, to be deployed at the UK North Sea Stella project, seems almost ready to sail away from Poland where it is being built. Ithaca Energy on Friday said that the “FPF-1” floating production facility has completed the required inclination test as planned […]

  • BIMCO: Container Shipping May Face Bankruptcies if It Fails to Recover Extra Fuel Costs

    19 February 2019

    A failure to recover the extra fuel costs in full may result in bankruptcies in the container shipping.

  • NGO: 142 Ships Beached in South Asia in Q1

    10 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    NGO Shipbreaking Platform: 142 ships ended up on South Asian beaches in the first quarter of 2019.

  • UK: A&P’s Falmouth Yard, Rolls-Royce to Finish Construction of Naval Warship Replicas

    31 January 2012

    A&P’s Falmouth yard is currently working on an exciting project to build full size replicas of parts of naval warships to be used for training purposes at a new land-based training facility near Plymouth. Replicas of parts of two warships – Type 23 frigates and Type 45 destroyers – are being mocked up by A&P […]

  • Anbaric Applies for New England Offshore Transmission System

    21 November 2019
    Storage

    Anbaric has filed an application with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for the development of the Southern New England OceanGrid offshore transmission system. Anbaric is seeking non-exclusive rights-of-way to develop the independent, open-access offshore transmission system, which is said to be designed to maximize the region’s offshore wind resources. Once approved, the […]