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  • First Gas Flows Through Subsea Pipeline Into Pearl GTL Plant in Qatar

    23 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      Qatar Petroleum and Shell announced the first flow of dedicated offshore gas into the Pearl GTL plant located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in the State of Qatar. Shell, which is the operator of the Pearl GTL plant developed under a Production and Sharing Agreement with QP, has opened natural gas wells offshore allowing […]

  • Three Dead, Several Injured at Chittagong Shipbreaking Yard

    1 August 2019

    Three workers died and at least six were injured following a toxic gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in Bangladesh.

  • Tanker Market Flourishing, Dry Bulk Mostly Down

    21 November 2014

    The Drewry All Earnings Index, which covers the main bulk shipping markets, jumped 53% in October to stand at 200 points on account of large gains for tanker owners, according to the Shipping Insight report published by shipping consultancy Drewry. Suezmax tankers registered a remarkable 400% gain on West Africa-US East Coast routes as oil […]

  • USA: BOEMRE Finds Old Equipment to Be Cause of Fire Outbreak on Vermilion 380 A Platform

    26 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today released the findings of its investigation into a fire that occurred Sept. 2, 2010, on Mariner Energy Inc.’s, Vermilion 380 A oil and natural gas production platform located approximately 102 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A BOEMRE Accident Investigation Panel concluded that […]

  • New Zealand: Aft Section of Rena Sunk

    4 April 2012

    MNZ and salvors report the aft section of the Rena has now sunk due to ongoing rough seas pounding the weakened structure. This was confirmed during a second overflight of the vessel about 4pm today. The Bay of Plenty and Coromandel communities are advised that the sinking of the stern section will likely result in […]

  • UAE: Kotug names world’s biggest Rotor tug

    22 January 2018

    Kotug has recently named what it claims to be the world’s biggest Rotor tug ART 100-46 in Sharjah, UAE.

  • Introducing Smart Containers

    12 February 2015
    Business & Finance

    French liner CMA CGM has increased its capital investment in the TRAXENS startup as it strives to introduce the industry’s first containers equipped with tracking sensors. In 2015, TRAXENS, developer of innovative containers monitoring systems, will equip the first CMA CGM containers with its patented technology. The technology will enable the customers to know in […]

  • WoodMac: LNG regas capacity under construction at 10-year high

    2 September 2020
    Infrastructure, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    The global LNG regasification capacity under construction could hit 144 million tonnes per annum in 2020, a 10-year high.

  • Dredging Innovation at Shoreham Port

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Maintaining adequate water depths in all ports is an ongoing and expensive process, and at Shoreham Port, the Tug Adurni is used constantly to rake material away using a plough towed behind the tug. The Marine Team at Shoreham Port were recently tasked with finding ways to the make the plough, more efficient and productive. […]

  • Vision of Teus van Beek: Moving towards a cleaner future and a sustainable society

    14 May 2020
    Innovation, Vision

    The company Wärtsilä means business when it comes to sustainable solutions. “We are taking a pioneering role when it comes to sustainability. But we cannot do it alone. The whole logistic chain needs to be involved. Only together we can make a real impact.” Teus van Beek is General Manager Ecosystems Innovation for Wärtsilä. In […]

  • India: ONGC Finds Shale Gas Near Durgapur

    3 February 2011

      ONGC has created an exploration landmark when gas flowed out from the Barren Measure shale at a depth of around 1700 m., in its first R & D well RNSG-1 near Durgapur at Icchapur, West Bengal on 25th of January, 2011. Though the well is still under assessment, the breakthrough is significant as India […]

  • Lime Petroleum surrenders three North Sea licenses

    25 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad has announced that its jointly-controlled entity, Lime Petroleum Norway AS has decided to surrender PL509S, PL509BS and PL509CS, all of which are located in the North Sea, following the deadline for a drill or drop decision by 23 July 2014. Following the assessment of results obtained from reprocessed seismic data, the application […]

  • 3rd Serial Tanker of Project 2734 for BFC Launched (Russia)

    27 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    St. Petersburg-based shipyard Baltiysky Zavod yesterday, April 26, held a launching and christening ceremony for the third vessel of a series of four non-self propelled oil tankers of Project 2734, ordered by Baltic Fuel Company (BFC). The vessel was named “Mira.” The RUB 400 million turn-key contract for four tankers was signed between the shipbuilding […]

  • South Asian Shipbreaking Yards Claim 19 Lives So Far in 2019

    15 October 2019

    Another 30 have been severely injured.

  • Trapoil abandons UKCS licence

    11 February 2015

    Trapoil has decided to relinquish licence P.1556 Block 29/1c (Orchid) located in the western margin of the Central Graben immediately to the north east of the Bittern field, in the North Sea.  Further to the company’s announcement of January 8, 2015 when Trapoil relinquished a number of licences, the Board has decided to also relinquish Licence P.1556 […]

  • Oil rises after month of steady decline but oversupply still weighs

    1 August 2016

    By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil rose on Monday, driven by new orders as traders staked out positions at the start of the new month, but the market remains dogged by plentiful crude supplies, a flood of refined products, and a weakening economic outlook. Brent crude was at $43.72 per barrel at 0440 GMT, […]

  • Germany: Research Project HoOK Underway

    23 May 2013

    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 – […]

  • Somali Islamist insurgents seize pirate haven

    3 May 2010

    Somali insurgents have taken control of one of the main pirate havens in the centre of the country. Residents said several hundred rebels of the group Hizbul Islam had taken over the coastal town of Haradhere and that the pirates had fled.

  • Australia: Toondah Harbour Dredging About to Begin

    30 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Equipment is expected to be moved into place at Toondah Harbour next week in preparation for the commencement of dredging work. Mayor Karen Williams said the work, due for completion by 30 August (weather permitting), involved maintenance and capital dredging of a section of the Fison Channel and widening of the ‘swing basin’, allowing vessels […]

  • China: Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard Delivers Two P Class AHTS Vessels

    3 November 2011

    Swire Pacific Offshore yesterday in Qingdao, Mainland China took delivery of the last two of eight new “P” Class Anchor Handling Tug Supply (“AHTS”) vessels, Pacific Python and Pacific Porpoise, built by Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard, marking the successful completion of the major part of an ongoing fleet replacement programme. Equipped with a 150-tonne line pull […]

  • OPT Gets Another US Patent

    21 June 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Power Technologies, has received a new US patent for its Power Take-Off (PTO) System which is the mechanical heart of the PB3 PowerBuoy. Ocean waves that pass-by the PowerBuoy create a relative linear motion between the float and the spar components of the PB3. The PTO system takes the linear motion of the float […]

  • China: Swire Pacific Offshore Receives New Additions in Its AHTS Fleet

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Swire Pacific Offshore (“SPO”) took delivery yesterday in Qingdao, Mainland China of the last two of eight new “P” Class Anchor Handling Tug Supply (“AHTS”) vessels, Pacific Python and Pacific Porpoise, built by Qingdao Qianjin Shipyard, marking the successful completion of the major part of an ongoing fleet replacement programme. Equipped with a 150-tonne line […]

  • Origin*s Exploration & Production Business Delivers Record Quarterly Production and Sales Revenues (Australia)

    27 October 2010

    Origin Energy Limited (“Origin”) today released its Quarterly Production Report for its exploration and production business for the quarter ended 30 September 2010, reporting record quarterly production of 37 petajoules equivalent (PJe) and record sales revenues. Origin’s Executive Director, Finance and Strategy, Ms Karen Moses, said “The Exploration and Production business achieved quarterly production of […]

  • Oleg Aksyutin Becomes CEO of South Stream Transport

    5 July 2013

     The South Stream Project is making good progress and enters an important next phase. Following a recent Board Meeting, South Stream Transport has initiated two tenders, one for the supply of line pipe and another one for the construction of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline through the Black Sea. Construction of the first 930-kilometre offshore […]

  • Cruise ship rescue by coastguard

    6 July 2009

    The Norfolk coastguard has co-ordinated the rescue of a 57-year-old passenger taken ill on a cruise liner. The man was taken seriously ill on Tuesday on the P&O cruise ship Ventura which was in the North Sea travelling to Southampton.