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  • UK: E.ON to Use Port of Sunderland as Storage Base

    29 October 2013
    Ports & Logistics

    Port of Sunderland is celebrating after signing a significant storage and offshore cable base contract with one of the world’s most profitable energy companies, E.ON. The port is due to take delivery of two 600 tonne substations in November as part a Humber Gateway Windfarm project, after a raft of developments designed to make the […]

  • Pay dispute brings ‘unprecedented’ strike action to five major UK oil & gas operators

    10 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    UK’s Unite the union has revealed a 48-hour stoppage on dozens of offshore platforms on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS).

  • Governor Tours Mud-to-Parks Site (USA)

    11 October 2012

    Governor Pat Quinn yesterday visited the East Peoria riverfront to announce the innovative Mud-to-Parks program, which makes use of soil dredged from the silt-choked Illinois River to build a new park on Lake Michigan. Sixty barge loads of sediment dredged from the Illinois River at East Peoria are traveling 163 miles to the old U.S. […]

  • EnBW Implements Measures for Further Investments in New Energy Concept

    26 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    “The past fiscal year was not an easy year for the energy industry and therefore also not for EnBW. It is all the more pleasing that we were able to create the main conditions for further forward-looking investments, despite the difficult general environment. The measures we have taken to safeguard EnBW’s financial stability and its […]

  • DP World and Gemini Cooperation to bolster cargo operations in Canada

    8 January 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Ports & Logistics

    Dubai-based terminal operator DP World has shaken hands with the Gemini Cooperation to “enhance” cargo operations across Canada. As disclosed, commencing from February 2025, the DP World is set to introduce several new container services at its terminals at the Port of Prince Rupert, the Port of Vancouver, and Port Saint John, the latter two […]

  • Belgium: MSC Transfers Its Activities to Deurganck Dock

    13 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The MSC shipping company is to consolidate all its activities in the Port of Antwerp in the Deurganck dock, on the left bank of the Scheldt. The Port Authority board of directors gave the go-ahead for the move yesterday. The transfer is necessary in order to permit further expansion by MSC in Antwerp. The shipping […]

  • JAMSTEC Presents Progress Report on QUELLE2013

    21 October 2013

    In an effort to study a variety of marine organisms which have evolved to live in extreme environments, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), led by President Asahiko Taira, has begun a project called QUELLE2013. This project began in January 2013, using the manned research submersible SHINKAI 6500 and its support vessel […]

  • Falkland Islands: Rockhopper, Desire Petroleum Reach Farm-In Agreement

    12 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that Rockhopper Exploration (Oil) Limited, a subsidiary of the Company (“Rockhopper Oil”), has today agreed the terms of a farm-in agreement, subject to the approval of the Falkland Islands Government, with Desire Petroleum Plc to farm-in to that part of the […]

  • Brazil: Petrobras to Install LNG Regasification Terminal in Bahia

    1 March 2011

      The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, will participate in the ceremony that will announce the installation of the Bahia Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification Terminal (TRBA) Tuesday. During the event, Petrobras and the Government of Bahia will sign the Protocol of Intentions that will define the actions to be taken by the parties in […]

  • Venture Global LNG secures more funds for LNG projects

    16 August 2018

    Venture Global LNG raked in additional $160 million from large institutional investors bringing the company’s aggregate funding total to $630 million. 

  • UK prospect nears spud date, while sanctioning of another West of Shetland project gets delayed

    19 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    A rig has been hired for the drilling of a prospect in the UK later this year, but a FID for another project has been postponed.

  • NOC’s Autosub6000 Acquires Most Detailed Survey of Porcupine Abyssal Plain

    3 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The most detailed photographic survey of the abyssal ocean floor has been taken by the National Oceanography Centre’s robot sub, Autosub6000 – some half a million photos that will be stitched together to form a ‘street view’ map of the North Atlantic’s Porcupine Abyssal Plain and its inhabitants. Forward and down-facing cameras mounted on the […]

  • Aker Solutions to Split Into Two Companies

    11 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    The board of directors of Aker Solutions ASA (“Aker Solutions”) has in accordance with the strategy disclosed April 30 resolved to propose to the company’s shareholders that Aker Solutions be split into two companies. The board has also determined to write down the value of some assets in the Aker Oilfield Services unit of Akastor, […]

  • Economic Growth of Middle East in Close Connection with Sea-Faring Tradition

    26 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    The economic growth of the Middle East region is clearly entwined with its rich sea-faring tradition, which has made the UAE the home to nine seaports and the world’s third largest re-export market that trades with more than 220 countries today. The economic benefits of the shipping and shipbuilding industry and its positive impact on […]

  • Ballast Water Convention – Tripartite Meeting Shares Concerns with Implementation

    14 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Representatives of the leading worldwide Associations of Shipbuilders, Classification Societies and Shipowners met in Busan, Korea for their annual Tripartite meeting hosted by the Korean Register of Shipping and KOSHIPA, the national shipbuilders association. The meeting was united in expressing its serious concern with the obstacles that all three parties face as the Ballast Water […]

  • Tools of the trade

    16 September 2016

    Cost-cutting. A combination of words warmly greeted in the offshore wind industry and for that matter also the outcome of marine service provider Houlder’s pile upending tool recently delivered for work on the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm development, off the Sussex coast in the English Channel. Construction of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm has commenced and the first offshore foundation […]

  • MOL grabs bigger stake in MODEC to bolster offshore energy game as decarbonization age goes on

    21 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Transition

    Japan’s MOL has taken hold of a larger stake in MODEC, which will enable it to convert the firm into an equity-method affiliate in pursuit of further growth in both firms’ offshore businesses against the backdrop of energy transition plays that call for a step-up in the decarbonization arena.

  • Progress made in turning potential Enauta-3R merger into reality

    19 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Enauta has taken another step closer to bringing into life a larger and more diversified independent oil and gas company in Latin America.

  • Stena Bulk bids farewell to its last LNG tanker

    19 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Sweden’s Stena Bulk has no more LNG carriers in its fleet after selling the remaining one to an undisclosed Asian buyer.

  • UK’s navy ships embrace green tech to reduce environmental footprint

    31 December 2021
    Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    The UK’s Royal Navy has revealed that its newest warships feature the latest green credentials to comply with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) environmental legislations.

  • European ministers urged to streamline renewable hydrogen financing

    20 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    In a joint letter, CEOs from the Renewable Hydrogen Coalition (RHC) have urged European Ministers of Finance to streamline financing to renewable hydrogen and electrolyzer manufacturing capacity within Europe and allocate national budgets to the European Hydrogen Bank. According to the CEOs, the critical first wave of European renewable hydrogen projects is very close to […]

  • Ocean Energy Europe appoints new leadership team

    29 March 2024
    Collaboration, Human Capital, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vision

    Ocean Energy Europe (OEE), a network of ocean energy professionals, has selected new Co-Presidents and Directors who will lead the ocean energy sector through a transitional period. The appointed Co-Presidents are Guillaume Gréau, Head of Business Development for HydroQuest, France, and Patrik Möller, CEO of CorPower Ocean, Sweden. Both companies are globally known in the […]

  • Five contractors in the run for pipeline contract for North Sea gas project

    19 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Hartshead Resources NL and its joint venture partner RockRose have launched an invitation to tender for pipeline EPCI services for the Anning and Somerville fields located in the Southern North Sea, following completion of the pipeline route survey covering the offtake routes for gas production from the developments. Gardline carried out the survey using the […]

  • Colossal 24K TEU MSC Loreto sets sail from Yangzijiang Shipbuilding

    18 April 2023
    Green Marine, Vessels

    The global fleet of the world’s largest containerships has expanded once again, with the addition of another 24K TEU vessel, MSC Loreto. The vessel was built by Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group for China’s Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (Bocomm Leasing) and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company. MSC Loreto is part of a series of […]

  • 3rd E-flexer joins Britanny Ferries’ fleet

    23 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Vessels

    China Merchants Jingling Shipyard (Weihai) has delivered the ninth E-Flexer RoRo vessel, Santona, to its owner Stena RoRo. The online delivery signing ceremony was held on December 22. The dual-fuel LNG-powered ferry has been chartered by Brittany Ferries on a long-term basis. Stena RoRo has an agreement with Brittany Ferries for long-term charters of five E-Flexers of […]