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  • Norway: Havyard Group to Build PSV for Faroe Islands Supply Service

    24 May 2010

    The Havyard Group has signed a contract with Faroe Islands-based Supply Service for an 86-metre Havyard 833 Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) plus one option. The first vessel is to be delivered in March 2012 and the optional vessel in June 2012. The vessels are to be built at the Havyard Group’s shipyard Havyard Leirvik in […]

  • Armed Robbers Board Ship in Guinean Anchorage

    5 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    An anchored heavy lift vessel was boarded by six robbers armed with machine guns and knives in the Conakry Anchorage, Guinea, according to data from the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB PRC). During the attack, which occurred on July 3, the robbers attacked the duty ordinary seaman causing injuries and took the second officer hostage. IMB PRC […]

  • Stork inks contract extension with Apache

    25 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Stork, a global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services focused on the oil & gas, chemical and power sectors, has been awarded a three year contract extension with two one-year extension options, for global oil & gas operator Apache. Stork will provide Apache a full range of integrated Fabric Maintenance support services including: scaffolding, […]

  • China: Yuexin Shipyard Starts Construction of 58.7m AHTS Vessel

    14 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      On Sep.3,2011,a keel-laying ceremony of Yuexin’s 58.7m AHTS Vessel YX3157 built by Yuexin for MARTENS MARINE Company was held in No. 1 dock in Yuexin shipyard. YX3157 is built to ABS Class notation which includes Al + “OFFSHORE SUPPORT VESSEL, AH, TOWING VESSEL, FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL CLASS 1”，AMS DPS-1 and applies to the design […]

  • Austal’s ‘Leonora Christina’ completes sea trials

    13 May 2011

    Austal’s largest catamaran built to date, the 113-metre ‘Leonora Christina’ for Denmark’s Bornholmer Færgen, has recently completed sea trials, marking the final stage in the construction of the high-speed vehicle-passenger ferry at Austal’s Henderson, Australia shipyard. Austal was awarded the contract to build ‘Leonora Christina’ in April 2009, and the vessel has been built to […]

  • 3 dead, 3 missing in offshore pipeline blast

    13 October 2006

    Three people were killed and three others were missing after an offshore natural gas pipeline exploded when a tug pushing two barges struck it on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The tug and barges hit the gas line at about 12:30 p.m. in West Cote Blanche Bay, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southwest of […]

  • ISIS Attacks Libya’s Largest Oil Port

    5 January 2016

    Libya’s largest oil port of Sidra was attacked early Monday by Islamic State militants who were trying to seize the port. The militants reportedly clashed with Petrol Facilities Guard militia leaving at least seven people dead, with Associated Press claiming that the death toll reached 11. However, the attempts were foiled by the guards. In addition, local […]

  • Norway: TERSAN Shipyard Awards Boiler Plant Contracts to PARAT Halvorsen

    8 August 2012

    PARAT Halvorsen AS has been awarded in all 4 boiler plant contracts with TERSAN Shipyard in Turkey and their Stern Trawlers ST-116 new buildings. The boiler plants will be equipped with Parat combined oil fired and exhaust gas boilers, type MCS, to comply steam production for the freezer trawlers fishmeal and fish oil factory. The […]

  • Firefighters Unable to Go Onboard MSC FLAMINIA Due to Bad Weather Conditions

    1 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Since Monday evening the team of firefighting experts is unable to go onboard MSC FLAMINIA due to bad weather conditions. In the coming days a further deterioration of the weather is predicted. Therefore, MSC FLAMINIA and the group of tugboats have pulled out of the 200 mile zone and maintain a position approximately 200 miles […]

  • Qatar Petroleum to sell shares in its Qatalum joint venture

    7 May 2018

    Qatar Petroleum will be offering 49 percent of its shares in its joint venture Qatalum in a public offering for Qatari nationals.

  • Energia del Pacifico launches LNG supply tender

    15 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Energía del Pacífico said it is launching an international tender process to contract long-term supplies of up to 0.5 mtpa of LNG for its Power Generating Project in Acajutla, Republic of El Salvador.

  • LR gives AIP for Japanese LNG-powered coal carrier

    6 December 2017
    Vessels

    Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. (MOL) said that together with Tohoku Electric Power and Namura Shipbuilding have received an approval in principle (AIP) from Lloyd’s Register for the design of an LNG-powered coal carrier.

  • Cargo Ship Evades Pirate Attack in Philippines

    4 January 2017

    Six armed persons in a speed boat chased and fired upon a general cargo vessel while it was underway some 21 nautical miles east of Basilan Island, the Philippines, according to data provided by IMB Piracy Reporting Centre. The incident occurred in the afternoon hours on January 3, the data shows. The vessel’s Master raised the alarm and […]

  • Houston Channel Reopens after Refinery Explosion

    7 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    The Houston Ship Channel has been reopened after a precautionary safety zone had been put in place due to an explosion at a refinery company Pasadena Refining System, the US Coast Guard informs. The incident, which occurred on Saturday morning, led to a stoppage of traffic from Cotton Patch Bayou to Sims Bayou. The Captain of the Port closed the […]

  • Man Injured in Dredging Accident

    12 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    A boat propeller cut off a man’s legs below the knees after he fell into the water on Tuesday during the Port Canaveral channel dredging project. The stricken man, who’s name has not been released, was somehow able to cling to a rope and was rescued, WESH 2 News reports. Paramedics said that quick action […]

  • Meralco to finalize JV talks with Osaka Gas

    23 March 2015

    Manila Electric intends on concluding JV talks with Osaka Gas during this year according to the company’s chairman, Manuel V. Pangilinan.

  • AIS launches offshore survival training centre (UK)

    16 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    AIS has opened a brand new £2.5m state-of-the-art offshore survival training centre on North Tyneside. The new 20,000 sq ft centre is located beside existing 120,000 sq ft training village in North Shields, comprising of 11 bespoke centres. Approved by industry bodies including OPITO (Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation), the Global Wind Organisation and STCW […]

  • USA: “No Single Factor Caused Deepwater Horizon Tragedy”, BP

    8 September 2010
    Project & Tenders

    No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. A report released by BP today concludes that decisions made by “multiple companies and […]

  • Korea Shipping Corporation Orders Bulker Duo at Daesun

    26 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Korea Shipping Corporation orders two coal carriers at Daesun Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.

  • Petrofac Training Services to Back Statoil’s UK Ops

    22 September 2016
    Human Capital

    Statoil has awarded Petrofac with a contract for training and emergency response services to support Statoil’s UK operations. In the five-year training partnership, Petrofac Training Services will provide a wide range of HSE, survival, fire and marine training services to support Statoil’s personnel working on the Hywind and Dudgeon offshore wind projects, as well as the Mariner […]

  • Venice Energy lines up Port Adelaide LNG import project

    23 July 2018

    Melbourne-headquartered Venice Energy plans to develop an FSRU-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Port Adelaide. 

  • Development of Northwestern Europe’s 1st terminal for hydrogen carriers and low-carbon fuels on track

    21 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition, Vessels

    U.S.-based Vision Energy, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Evolution Terminals BV, says to be on track to file the detailed environmental impact assessment for its energy project in the North Sea Port of Vlissingen, the Netherlands before January 31, 2023. Namely, Evolution Terminals is in advanced development of a 16.4 hectare site in the North Sea […]

  • Sumitomo and J-Power Systems to Install Submarine Power Cables Between Taiwan and Penghu Islands

    23 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Sumitomo Corporation and J-Power Systems Corporation have won a joint contract to install submarine power cables between the main island of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, located about 60 km west off the southwestern coast of the main island. This is a full turnkey project worth about 32 billion yen and involves the installation of […]

  • Spain: New RV Ramon Margalef Takes Its First Mission and The Sea Trials

    14 November 2011

    The new multi-purpose research vessel R/V Ramon Margalef, which belongs to the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO), was undergoing sea trials when the Science Ministry decided to move it to the Canary Islands​ to follow up on the activity of the volcano on El Hierro Island. The vessel was only delivered a few weeks previously, on […]

  • Norway: Farstad Chooses New Omicron Gas System

    4 September 2012

    The new Omicron Gas System, which is designed for monitoring flammable and toxic gasses in liquid cargo tanks, has been chosen for use aboard four Farstad Platform Supply Vessels. This sophisticated new solution, which Autronica Fire and Security AS will display on its stand at SMM in Hamburg, has been installed to ensure better safety […]