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  • Erskine Field to Remain Shut While Chrysaor Tries to Resolve Pipe Issue

    24 April 2018
    Operations & Maintenance

    Chrysaor Limited, the operator the Lomond to Everest pipeline that experienced blockage during cleaning operations in January 2018, has put focus on the pipeline bypass programme, which will further delay the restart of Chevron’s Erskine field in the UK Central North Sea. According to Serica Energy, the blockage, believed to be due to a deposit of wax in the […]

  • Enrica Lexie Case: Court Orders Return of Italian Marine

    5 May 2016

    One of the two Italian Navy marines, being held in India after they were accused of killing two Indian fishermen in February 2012 while on anti-piracy duty, was granted permission to return to Italy until the arbitration process, which began in June 2015, is concluded, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation cited a ruling from the […]

  • Hydrex Conducts Rapid Underwater Bow Thruster Removal in USA

    17 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A Hydrex diver/technician team mobilized to Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. last month to remove the bow thruster of a 294-meter container vessel. The unit needed to be overhauled. Hydrex performed the operation underwater in a very short time frame. This made it possible for the owner to keep his vessel out of drydock. Together with all […]

  • Exceed nets new business in Malaysia

    6 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Well management and performance improvement specialist Exceed, based in Aberdeen, has won its first Malaysia-based contract for its performance improvement division, worth around $600,000. The three year call-off contract will see up to three members of Exceed personnel mobilised to the region. Performance coaches in this division work alongside client rig teams, developing front line […]

  • Safe Bulkers bolsters fleet with Phase 3 – NOx Tier III Kamsarmax newbuild

    11 January 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Vessels

    New York-listed dry bulk owner Safe Bulkers has entered into a deal to acquire an 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax bulker with a scheduled delivery date within the third quarter of 2026. According to Safe Bulkers, the newbuild vessel is designed to meet the Phase 3 requirements of Energy Efficiency Design Index related to the reduction of greenhouse gas […]

  • Tanzania: Orca to Spud Songo Songo Wells in December

    17 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Orca Exploration Group Inc. announces that it has taken delivery of the Sakson PR5 drilling rig at Songo Songo Island enabling the Company to begin work on its US$130 million drilling and development program in Tanzania. Orca, which currently supplies gas primarily for power generation to the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) and Songas, as […]

  • HaiSea Marine names its eco-friendly tugboat fleet

    10 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    HaiSea Marine, majority owned by Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan, has held a naming ceremony for its tug boat fleet, including fully electric harbour tugboats and dual fuel (LNG and diesel) escort tug boats. 

  • Grieg Star creates innovation spin-off with sustainability in mind

    17 November 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Innovation, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Norwegian shipowner Grieg Star has set up a separate company, named Grieg Edge, to drive innovations within sustainable maritime services.

  • Offshore workers stage strike on Statoil’s Mariner platform

    9 April 2018

    Offshore workers on Statoil-operated Mariner platform located in the UK sector of the North Sea staged an unofficial strike over the weekend.

  • USA: Diamond Offshore Orders Drillship. Sells 4 Rigs

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for construction of a new ultra-deepwater drillship with delivery scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2014. Total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, but excluding capitalized interest, is expected to be approximately $655 million. The new drillship, to […]

  • Gitga’at First Nation: No Clear Consensus on LNG among BC First Nations, Canada

    4 March 2013

    The Gitga’at First Nation says a recent conference on LNG, sponsored by the BC provincial government, has raised more questions than it has answered, and government officials, including Premier Clark, and proponents are getting ahead of themselves if they think there is a clear consensus on LNG among BC First Nations. “There is a gold […]

  • Court Reaches Decision on the Elbe River Dredging Project

    10 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    After years of discussions, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has finally announced its decision on the Elbe River deepening project. Commenting on the court’s decision for the fairway adjustment of the Lower and Outer Elbe, CEO of Hamburg Port Authority, Jens Meier, yesterday said that the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has underlined the necessity for the […]

  • Obvious. Indispensable. Natural Gas. The Importance of Dutch Gas

    20 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference brings you a series of columns in which prominent industry representatives share their views on key developments in the offshore oil, gas and energy markets. This edition, Ruud Zoon, Managing Director of GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland and Chairman of NOGEPA shares his thoughts on the importance of Dutch Gas. “Ever […]

  • ReCAAP: Maritime Crime Rampant in Asia

    21 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    A total of 161 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships had been reported in Asia during January-September 2015, a 25% increase compared to 129 incidents reported in the same period in 2014, according to a report by piracy watchdog ReCAAP ISC. Of these, 11 were piracy incidents and 150 were armed robberies against […]

  • IMB: Maritime Crimes Hit Lowest Levels in Decades

    25 July 2016

    Piracy and armed robbery at sea have fallen to their lowest levels since 1995, despite a surge in kidnappings off West Africa, according to a report from the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB). IMB’s global piracy report shows 98 incidents in the first half of 2016, compared with 134 for the same period in […]

  • HRH The Duke of Kent Officially Opens MTL Group Manufacturing Facility in Rotherham (UK)

    8 July 2011
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance

      Project manufacturing specialist MTL Group was delighted to welcome HRH The Duke of Kent to its new 300,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Rotherham. Escorted by the Lord-Lieutenant for South Yorkshire, HRH The Duke of Kent was greeted by MTL Group Managing Director Dr. Henry Shirman and the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire. The […]

  • Tailwind Energy gets Evelyn field development plan approval

    22 February 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Oil and gas company Tailwind Energy has received consent and approval of the field development plan for the Evelyn Field from the UK Oil and Gas Authority’s (OGA).

  • Eni defends balance sheet and dividend with huge capex and opex cuts

    26 March 2020
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Eni has decided to reduce its capex and opex for this year and the next as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil price war. The reductions are mainly related to Eni’s Upstream activities.

  • Russia: Gazprom Connects Offshore and Onshore Parts of Dzhubga–Lazarevskoye–Sochi Gas Pipeline

    10 May 2011
    Business & Finance

    Gazprom accomplished connection of the Dzhubga – Lazarevskoye – Sochi gas pipeline offshore and onshore sections. The Bigfoot 1 pipe-laying vessel performed a tie-in operation (welding two sections of the pipeline) near the Kudepsta settlement. The same operations were previously performed near the town of Tuapse, settlements of Dzhubga and Novomikhailovsky. The Tuapse – Kudepsta […]

  • MOG Dismisses LGO Claims. Malta Area 4 Ops Unaffected

    27 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Mediterranean Oil and Gas today said it noted the announcements by Leni Gas and Oil plc (“LGO”) on 23 and 24 September 2013 and restates its position both as regards progress on Malta Area 4, and on certain matters in relation to the legal claim made by LGO against two subsidiaries of […]

  • ABB: German OW Delays Amount to $260 Million

    23 January 2014
    Storage

    ABB said its fourth-quarter 2013 results were adversely impacted mainly by charges for storm-related project delays and some operational issues in the Power Systems (PS) division. Additional restructuring-related charges were taken in response to the division’s soft order intake in 2013. The company also booked non-operational charges related to certain Group legacy issues. “While the […]

  • Diana Expands Fleet, Agrees on New Charters

    21 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Diana Shipping Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, has through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary taken delivery of the M/V  G. P. Zafirakis, a 179,492 dwt newly built Capesize dry bulk vessel that the company entered into an agreement to purchase in June 2014. The M/V G. P. Zafirakis is […]

  • South Korea: HHI to Build Drillship for Diamond Offshore

    10 May 2012

    Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., its subsidiary Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited, has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for construction of a new ultra-deepwater drillship with delivery scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2014. Total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, but excluding capitalized interest, is expected to be approximately […]

  • ACCSEAS Annual Conference Takes Place in Edinburgh, Scotland

    27 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    The ACCSEAS Second Annual Conference takes place next week in Edinburgh, Scotland, with an array of maritime organisations from around the globe convening to discuss the work of ACCSEAS in developing a test-bed of e-navigation solutions to help keep mariners safe when navigating the increasingly busy shipping waters of the North Sea Region. Organisations confirmed […]

  • Saab Transpondertech to supply AIS Network for Romania

    10 June 2009

    Saab TransponderTech AB, the international leader in Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology, today announced that it has installed more than 15,000 shipboard AIS transponders and 1,500 AIS base stations around the world. “This is a major milestone and underscores Saab’s clear position of market dominance in maritime AIS,” said Gunnar Mangs, vice president, sales and […]