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  • Ocean Star Pacific Runs Aground

    17 December 2014

    Panamanian-flagged Ocean Star Pacific cruise ship ran aground on Friday, December 12 in General Santos City area, off the Philippine island of Mindanao, the Philippine Coast Guard informed. The 1971-built vessel, manned by 21 Indian seafarers, was due for ship breaking in Vahavnagar, India and was supposedly bound for Singapore from Mexico when it ran […]

  • Euroseas Secures Loan to Finance Ultramax Newbuild

    24 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Greek shipping company Euroseas informed about the signing and service of a drawdown notice under a USD 10.86 million loan to finance the recently acquired Ultramax newbuilding. The 63,500 dwt M/V Alexandros P was delivered to the company from Dayang shipyard in China on January 16, 2017. The bulker is one of the two Ultramaxes ordered by Euroseas […]

  • Australia: Incat Crowther Designs Bound for Nigerian Customer

    2 January 2013

    Incat Crowther announced, Jan. 2nd, a contract to design a pair of 20m Monohull Crewboats for C and I Leasing of Nigeria. Under construction at Veecraft Marine in South Africa, the vessels continue the designer-builder-operator partnership that yielded success with Deborah, Perez and Ahuva in 2011. Based on the proven platform of Ahuva, the vessels […]

  • Launching of Two PSVs by Cochin Shipyard Limited (India)

    6 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) launched two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) being built for European clients on 04 August 2012 bearing the yard Hull Nos. BY-89 & BY-90. Shri Osman Sevver, Owner’s Representative launched the first vessel BY-89 and Shri George Thomas Roy, Chief General Manager (Tech), CSL, launched the second vessel BY-90, in the presence […]

  • Den Helder gets brand new helicopter simulator

    3 September 2014
    Equipment

    The new facility will be used to provide compulsory Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET)

  • Falck Invests GBP 100,000 in Crisis Management Facilities for Offshore Sector (UK)

    5 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Falck Safety Services has invested more than GBP 100,000 in cutting edge crisis management facilities near its existing training centre at Aberdeen airport. The facilities, based in Forties Road at Aberdeen Airport provide state-of-the-art training rooms for Major Emergency Management Initial Response (MEM IR), OIM Controlling Emergencies (OIM CE) and CRO Emergency Response. Working with […]

  • Germany: RWE Expects Stable 2012 Earnings

    10 May 2012
    Business & Finance

      After significant one-off burdens caused by energy policy decisions taken in Germany during 2011, RWE will regain ground this year. However, in the first quarter of 2012 the Group was not able to match the result for the same period in the previous year. Declining margins in electricity generation and burdens suffered by the […]

  • Alaska LNG Terminal Exported One Cargo in November

    6 January 2012

    The Kenai LNG terminal in Alaska exported one LNG cargo or 41,441 mt in November, according to U.S. DOE. The cargo was bought by Tokyo Electric for $17.25 per mmBtu. The 1.5 MTPA Kenai Alaska LNG plant, operated by ConocoPhillips, started up in 1969 and has achieved over 40 years of uninterrupted supply to Japanese customers. […]

  • VIDEO: Damen Platform Supply Vessel 3300 CD

    6 March 2014

    Shipbuilding is an arduous work, from the very beginning till the moment a vessel hits the water. The following video, brings you a taste of the entire process on a particular type of vessel, namely the Damen Platform Supply Vessel 3300 CD. The Damen Platform Supply Vessel is a highly efficient, large-capacity ship, especially suited […]

  • Russia: Gazprom and Poland Discuss Energy Cooperation

    28 March 2011

      The Gazprom headquarters hosted Friday a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Wojciech Zajaczkowski, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation. The parties discussed the Russian-Polish cooperation in the energy sector considering current interaction between Gazprom and PGNiG as well as terms, […]

  • NY Coastal Protection Projects to Receive Federal Funding (USA)

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that four major New York coastal protection projects worth over $1 billion dollars will receive full federal funding, after a month long campaign led by Schumer. The Sandy relief bill that was signed into law required only that the feds pick up 65% of the project cost, but that […]

  • Piracy on World’s Seas Reaches Five-Year Low

    18 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Naval and armed guard protection is working, but the seas off East and West Africa remain dangerous, warns IMB. Piracy on the world’s seas has reached a five-year low, with 297 ships attacked in 2012, compared with 439 in 2011, the latest International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) report revealed on January 16. Worldwide figures were brought […]

  • Total insured losses from North Sea containership-tanker allision to likely range between $100M to $300M

    13 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Total insured losses resulting from the allision between a Portuguese-flagged containership and a US-flagged tanker in the North Sea are anticipated to range between $100 million and $300 million for all coverages, according to a Canada-based global credit ratings agency.

  • VIDEO: Sea-Force Hyperbaric Reception Facility

    3 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Hyperbaric Reception Facilities (HRF) are used to provide a permanent onshore environment for the safe decompression of saturation divers who need to be evacuated from a saturation diving vessel. Previously the use of HRFs by the commercial diving industry has been considered an optional item to have as long as an actual Hyperbaric Evacuation System (HES) […]

  • Pirates Target Second Tanker off Nigeria in a Week

    8 April 2016

    A group of armed pirates tried to board a vessel some 80 nautical miles off the coast of Brass, Nigeria, resulting in a second unsuccessful hijacking attempt on tanker vessels in a week, according to reports from ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Seven pirates armed with automatic weapons in a wooden speed boat approached the drifting tanker which was waiting for cargo loading […]

  • LLOG, Murphy shut down Gulf of Mexico platforms after plant explosion

    29 June 2016

    Two oil and gas platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico have reportedly been shut down as well as one gas pipeline following an explosion at an Enterprise Products Partners’ plant. Bloomberg reported that the fire at Enterprise’s natural gas processing facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi was extinguished around 5 p.m. local time on Tuesday. Enterprise said that there […]

  • Cargotec Secures Order for Siwertell Ship Unloaders from Morocco

    28 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Cargotec has recently won a significant order for two Siwertell ship unloaders to handle coal at Jorf Lasfar, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. The contract comes from the Jorf Lasfar Energy Company (JLEC) and includes repositioning two existing unloaders as well as installing the two new Siwertell units when they are delivered in 2013. The unloaders […]

  • Incat Crowther to Design Two Monohull Crewboats for Nigeria

    2 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Incat Crowther announced a contract to design a pair of 20m Monohull Crewboats for C and I Leasing of Nigeria. Under construction at Veecraft Marine in South Africa, the vessels continue the designer-builder-operator partnership that yielded success with Deborah, Perez and Ahuva in 2011. Based on the proven platform of Ahuva, the vessels feature a […]

  • Falck Invests GBP 100,000 in Crisis Management Facilities for Offshore Sector (UK)

    5 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Falck Safety Services has invested more than GBP 100,000 in cutting edge crisis management facilities near its existing training centre at Aberdeen airport. The facilities, based in Forties Road at Aberdeen Airport provide state-of-the-art training rooms for Major Emergency Management Initial Response (MEM IR), OIM Controlling Emergencies (OIM CE) and CRO Emergency Response. Working with […]

  • Work on Cove Point liquefaction project progresses (Gallery)

    23 April 2015

    Dominion Cove Point LNG filed a status report with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding the progress on the construction of the proposed systems for the Cove Point LNG project.

  • New program fortifies safety readiness across Malaysia’s oil & gas contractor and vendor sphere

    28 November 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has joined forces with the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to bring a new project into play as a structured framework aimed to strengthen safety readiness across the oil and gas industry’s contractor and vendor ecosystem.

  • Topaz receives vessel for US$225 million BP contract

    14 April 2010

    Topaz Energy and Marine took delivery of the newest addition to its fleet, the ‘Caspian Protector’ on April 11. The vessel will be deployed in Azerbaijan in support of a ten-year US$225 million BP contract won in 2008. The ‘Caspian Protector’ is a state-of-the-art 61-meter vessel designed for emergency recovery and response (ERRV), standby duties […]

  • Russia: Khabarovsk Shipyard Splashes Tug RN Amur

    31 October 2012

    The azimuth tug of design No. 2310 named RN Amur was launched from JSC Khabarovsk Ship Repair Yard on October 24. This is the first of two coastal tugs that are being constructed for Neftepromleasing LLC. RN Amur is designed mainly for coastal navigation in sea areas under a maximum sea roughness with a wave […]

  • Evergas Launches First Two Dragon Class Multigas Carriers

    14 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Evergas, a Copenhagen-headquartered seaborne transporter of liquefied gas, has held a naming ceremony for the first two of its ‘dragon class’ 27.500 cbm multigas liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers at the Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering shipyard in Qidong, China. The carriers were named JS Ineos Insight and JS Ineos Ingenuity. Both vessels bear a distinct dragon symbolizing their Chinese […]

  • Steaming ahead

    28 May 2009

    Alstom and E.ON Benelux have agreed on a contract to provide a steam turbine unit for the new fossil-fuel power plant at Maasvlakte power station in the Netherlands. The new power plant, located near the North Sea and the Rotterdam harbour, will be able to co-fire biomass and is being designed for retrofitting with carbon […]