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  • Black Elk Ends Search for Missing Offshore Worker (USA)

    21 November 2012

    Search and rescue efforts to find the worker who went missing following the explosion on the Black Elk-operated offshore platform, off the coast of Louisiana, have been suspended. The company issued a statement last night saying that based on the advice and counsel of search and rescue experts it would now end the search after […]

  • Offshore Energy Today: 2014 in pictures

    25 December 2014

    Today, we bring you our top picks from the 2014 galleries; these include new vessel deliveries, jack-up rigs, offshore platform fires and offshore drilling protests.  1. Gallery: Fire on Alaska platform contained  In October, fire broke out on the Baker platform, in the Cook Inlet of Alaska.   2. Gallery: Two injured in protest against offshore drilling […]

  • South Africa selects ports to develop LNG-to-power infrastructure

    6 October 2016

    The South African Department of Energy is currently in the process of developing procurement documentation for LNG-to-power independent procurement programme.

  • Merchant ship ‘returns’ to London

    18 May 2007

    A replica of an old merchant trading ship has sailed along the Thames to be greeted by a full gun salute. The ship, modelled on the original 18th Century Swedish ship the Gothenburg, fired her cannon to salute London at Tower Bridge.

  • Japan: Tohoku Electric Starts Construction on New Gas Unit

    30 November 2011

    Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co said it started work on constructing a new gas-fired 980-megawatt No.3 series unit at its …   (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, November 30, 2011; Image: tohoku

  • EIA: Power Sector CO2 Emissions Sensitive to Policy Changes and Gas Supply

    10 June 2014

    In 2012, almost 40% of total energy-related CO2 emissions resulted from electricity generation. About three-fourths of those power sector emissions occurred from burning coal, the most carbon-intensive fuel. Policies to reduce CO2 emissions could result in less consumption of coal in favor of natural gas, which emits about 40% as much CO2 per kilowatt hour […]

  • Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark

    20 May 2007

    A fire which swept through the famous 19th Century ship Cutty Sark may have been started deliberately, police say. The ship, which was undergoing a £25m restoration, is kept in a dry dock at Greenwich in south-east London.

  • Eni books Bourbon’s new vessel sextet for ops offshore Congo

    28 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Eni Congo, a subsidiary of Italy’s energy giant Eni, has hired six vessels on a multi-year assignment from Bourbon, a French maritime services provider, to support operations at its fields off the coast of Congo.

  • Tauron, PGNiG Sign LoI to Build New CCGT Unit (Poland)

    19 December 2012

    Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo and TAURON Polska Energia signed a letter of intent concerning construction of a 400 MW gas-fired co-generation unit at TAURON’s Łagisza Power Plant. The parties undertook to collaborate in construction and operation of the unit, as well as trading in electricity. The new unit at the Łagisza Power Plant will […]

  • Report Published on Arco Avon Fatal Accident

    1 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The report into MAIB’s investigation of the fatal engine room fire on the suction dredger Arco Avon is now published. The accident occurred on 18 August 2015 while Arco Avon was loading a sand cargo approximately 12 miles off Great Yarmouth, UK. The fire claimed the life of the vessel’s third engineer, who was attempting to repair a failed […]

  • GPS Distress Beacons Save 12 in One Day

    13 August 2014

    The Australian Maritime Safety Authority responded to two separate maritime emergency beacon activations, resulting in the rescue of 12 people. Just after 3 pm AEST AMSA detected an emergency beacon registered to a five metre fishing vessel approximately 41km North East of Darwin near the Vernon Islands. AMSA tasked a Darwin-based Dornier 328 search and rescue aircraft to […]

  • ‘Major milestone’ for Cutty Sark

    23 April 2008

    Restoration work on the Cutty Sark which was ravaged by fire almost a year ago, has reached a “major milestone”. A seven-tonne iron counter, a large and delicate part of the ship’s stern, was lifted by crane from the rest of the ship, said the construction team

  • Pakistan claims fisherman killed by Indian Coast Guard

    11 April 2006

    Pakistan on Monday alleged that the Indian Coast Guard has killed one of its fishermen in `unprovoked’ firing on March 18. Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam told reporters that an official of the Indian High Commission was summoned and a formal protest lodged on the incident.

  • Bilfinger Salamis UK wins work on TAQA’s North Sea platforms

    4 September 2015

    Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a five-year contract, with two one-year extension options, for international energy company TAQA for its oil and gas operations in the UK North Sea. Under the contract Bilfinger Salamis UK will provide a range of fabric maintenance support services on all of TAQA‘s UKCS assets, including: scaffolding, insulation, coatings, […]

  • Report: Pakistan ready to sell LNG plants to Qatar for $1.5 billion

    10 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy

    Pakistan’s government has decided to sell two LNG-fired plants to Qatar in a direct $1.5 billion deal to avoid a looming sovereign default, according to reports by Pakistani media outlets. Pakistani daily newspaper The Express Tribune writes that “the government has quietly delisted two power plants, which over four years ago, had been put on […]

  • GE to Supply Gas Turbine for Poland Power Plant

    3 October 2012

    GE said it will supply advanced gas turbine technology for a new 450-megawatt, combined-cycle power plant in the city of Stalowa Wola that will be the largest gas-fired project in Poland. It supports the government’s strategy to diversify the energy supply for Poland, which currently gets 95 percent of its electricity from coal-fired plants. The […]

  • Pirate ship on cash-raising quest

    4 September 2007

    Pirate-film lovers are being invited to raise funds to help restore the fire-damaged Cutty Sark by taking a tour on board a replica of HMS Bounty. The Bounty was built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty and has also featured in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest.

  • China goes fishing

    21 March 2005

    China is fast becoming a formidable sea power of the other marine variety. It doesn’t yet have monstrous aircraft carriers capable of delivering awesome fire power in the world’s seven seas, but there is a huge fleet of small fishing trawlers flying Chinese flags that sail the ocean blue.

  • Popular news, February 16 – 22, 2015

    22 February 2015

    As every week, we have compiled a list of the most read stories of the week on Offshore Energy Today. Spoiler alert: bad news dominates this week’s list.   An article on an oil rig catching fire in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico tops the list, followed by a piece on a North Sea worker […]

  • Top News of the Week September 16 – 21, 2013

    22 September 2013

    VIDEO: Fire Breaks Out on Saipem’s Rig Scarabeo 5 The drilling rig Scarabeo 5 cought fire this morning while at Keppel Verolme yard, the Netherlands, undergoing special survey works. Costa Concordia Parbuckling: Job Well Done! Conclusion of the parbuckling phase of the Costa Concordia wreck removal proved to be a huge success, as the stakeholders […]

  • Top News of the Week Feb 17 – 23, 2014

    23 February 2014

    Marubeni and Technip to Build Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Mainstream Renewable Power has appointed Marubeni and Technip Offshore Wind Limited (working in consortium) as the preferred supplier of balance of plant EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) services for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. First OW Jack-Up Vessel Built in Germany […]

  • Sumitomo companies switch from coal to LNG for power generation

    31 May 2017

    Members of the Japanese Sumitomo Group, Sumitomo Chemical and Sumitomo Metal Mining, intend on scaling down on use of coal and move to liquefied natural gas for power production.

  • Readers’ Picks of the Week (20-24 of Jul)

    26 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Fire aboard Freedom of the Seas A fire broke out in a mechanical space on board Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Freedom of the Seas on Wednesday, as it was about to enter Falmouth, Jamaica…. Read more Egypt on High Alert ahead of Suez Canal Inauguration Egyptian authorities have raised the alert level to the maximum […]

  • Readers’ Picks of the Week (Nov 30 – Dec 4)

    6 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Grand Princess’ Engine Room Catches Fire Due to a fire which broke out in the engine room aboard the cruise ship Grand Princess the vessel lost power for a short period of time in the early hours on Monday a… Read More The World’s First Smart Ship About to Be Born The world’s first smart […]

  • Production shutdown on Visund

    18 January 2006

    Production on the Statoil-operated Visund platform in the North Sea was shut down just after midnight on 19 January, after gas and fire detectors were activated on the platform. It has been visually confirmed that there were no flames.