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  • Flame detected aboard Hibernia platform

    12 May 2016

    A fire broke out this week aboard the Hibernia platform, offshore Canada. According to Canadian safety authority Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (CNLOP) the incident involved a flame originating from under the insulation of a high pressure cleaning unit on the Hibernia Platform. “On May 9 at approximately 7:30 a.m., two workers observed the flame and […]

  • Zamakona Yards: FSV Hull Launched

    3 February 2014

    The Zamakona Yards on Friday launched the “Ocean Marilin” vessel hull in its yard in Pasajes in Northern Spain. The vessel is the second which Zamakona Yards has launched of the three vessels contracted with the Norwegian shipping company, Atlantic Offshore A.S. The principal mission of the vessel will be to provide immediate attention in […]

  • Video: First Damen Dredger for Australia Sets Sail

    20 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    The first Damen dredger built for Australia has completed sea trials in Shanghai and is now underway to new owner, Gippsland Ports on its own keel. Named Tommy Norton, the dredger left Shanghai on July 14 on the 5,000-nautical-mile journey, expected to last 30 days to reach Australia. Along the way, the vessel will stop off in […]

  • Spotted: Energy Duchess Slides into Water

    28 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Energy Duchess, the first of two platform supply vessels ordered by Norway’s Golden Energy Offshore, was launched on Tuesday at the ROC yard in Nantong, China. Energy Dutchess and her sister vessel are scheduled for deliveries in 2016. The vessels are based on the PX121 design from Ulstein, and customised with one extra accommodation deck. The PSVs have an overall […]

  • Busy Weekend for Ulstein Verft, Norway

    11 March 2013

    Last weekend was hectic at Ulstein Verft, as three PSV sisters of the PX121 design were on the move. Yno 296, Blue Thunder, was launched on Saturday 9 March, and is now situated quayside, bright and blue. The hull of Yno 298 was docked into the dock hall for outfitting. While the newly delivered Blue […]

  • Female Diver Dies in UK

    17 August 2015

    A diver has been airlifted to hospital after a dive boat in Bridlington Bay called the UK Coastguard. The call came in at 2.35pm on August 16, reporting that the 60-year-old female diver was unconscious, but breathing, UK Coastguard wrote. The UK Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Humberside was sent to the scene along with […]

  • Piet Brouwer Starts Work on WASA Project

    31 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology has confirmed a new order from Finish-based WASA Dredging for the design, construction and installation of the whole electrical system on board two new split barges. The company will also supply the alarm system, fire detection and steering consoles for the 65-meter vessels. The hard soil and many boulders in Scandinavian waters often require […]

  • PIRA: China’s Q1 results could upset LNG trade balance

    6 May 2015

    NYC-based PIRA Energy Group reports that China’s first quarter results are in and what the data show are none too optimistic for the balance of the year, at least for the LNG trade.

  • First gas fed into Santos GLNG facility

    9 March 2015

    Santos GLNG said it has introduced natural gas into its LNG plant on Queensland’s Curtis Island, marking a key step in plant commissioning.

  • Minister: Morocco to shortlist LNG suppliers soon

    6 October 2015

    Morocco’s energy minister Abdelkader Amara said the country could shortlist three companies for the LNG import contracts within the next two weeks.

  • ClassNK Releases Updated Guidelines for Gas Fuelled Ships

    6 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Japanese classification society ClassNK has published the third version of its Guidelines for Gas Fuelled Ships. The updated version provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on key design features relating to bunkering, hull structure, fire safety, and explosion prevention measures. As restrictions on sulfur emissions within ECAs tightened to 0.1% on January 1, 2015 amid stronger calls for a […]

  • Leviathan partners sign $3 bln gas supply deal

    30 May 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Delek Group on Monday said that, together with its Leviathan gas field partners, Noble Energy, Avner Oil Exploration and Delek Drilling, it has signed a US$3 billion gas supply deal with I.P.M. Beer Tuvia.

  • LNG carrier attacked in Gulf of Guinea

    13 March 2017
    Vessels

    LNG carrier La Mancha Knutsen came under pirate attack in the Gulf of Guinea, off Nigeria’s Port Harcourt.

  • Bear Head LNG moves forward

    16 February 2015

    Liquefied Natural Gas Limited said that its unit, Bear Head LNG has been advised by the Canadian Environment Assessment Agency that it has reviewed the additional Bear Head LNG Project information.

  • Denmark: Dong Energy Combines Its Business Units

    30 April 2013

    Denmark’s DONG Energy has decided to streamline its corporate structure by combining the business units Energy Markets and Sales & Distribution. Today, Energy Markets is responsible for sourcing, trading and wholesale sales, while Sales & Distribution is responsible for sales to business customers and residential customers and for the operation of the Group’s distribution networks, […]

  • ‘HMS Protector’ Survey Vessel Prepares for Maiden Mission (UK)

    2 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      Looking more like one of Her Majesty’s Ships by the day – and less like an oil rig support vessel – is new Antarctic survey vessel HMS Protector, which has spent the summer being readied for her inaugural deployment. The Portsmouth-based ship now boasts miniguns (Gatling guns) and General Purpose Machine-Guns to protect herself, […]

  • Prosafe in breach of regulations after ‘Safe Scandinavia’ probe

    16 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has slapped Prosafe with a notification of order regarding the company not rectifying non-conformities spotted during an audit of the Safe Scandinavia tender support vessel (TSV) in September 2015. The Safe Scandinavia is an accommodation rig which was converted to a TSV in 2015. This meant that the […]

  • ABB secures equipment delivery for two offshore vessels

    19 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    ABB, the Swiss-based power and automation technology group, has won contracts worth in excess of $20 million to supply electrical power and propulsion systems for two next generation offshore vessels. The first vessel, of ULSTEIN SX165 design, is being constructed at Ulstein Verft in Norway for Island Ventures 11, the joint venture set up in 2012 […]

  • Int’l Tribunal: Switzerland Seeks Release of Tanker, Crew Detained in Nigeria

    24 June 2019

    Switzerland requested an international court to order the release of a tanker and its crew detained in Nigeria.

  • BNP Paribas Sets Aside EUR 15 Billion for Renewables

    25 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    French multinational bank BNP Paribas will more than double the financing resources allocated to the renewable energy sector, from EUR 6.9 billion in 2014 to EUR 15 billion in 2020, and strengthen its policies for the management of carbon risk. The bank will also continue to promote Green Bonds to institutional investors, a market in which the bank […]

  • Highlights of the Month: November 2015

    3 December 2015

    DONG Unveils U.S. Offshore Wind Project Details DONG Energy has released project details for its offshore wind farm proposed to be built off Massachusetts, USA. Scotland Greenlights World’s Largest Floating Wind Project The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for the construction of Hywind Scotland project, the world’s largest floating offshore wind […]

  • Allianz: 14 big ships lost in Asian waters in 2019

    15 July 2020
    Infrastructure, Safety, Vessels

    Asian waters accounted for a third of large vessels lost at sea globally last year, even as large shipping losses are at a record low having fallen by over 20 per cent year-on-year, according to Allianz.

  • Flexenclosure to Build Two Cable Landing Stations for Interchange

    19 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Swedish Internet infrastructure specialist Flexenclosure has received an order from Vanuatu-based telecommunications group Interchange for two eCentre cable landing stations, to be deployed in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands early next year. In the past 18 months, Flexenclosure has received orders in no less than five different Pacific island nations, cementing eCentre as the premier […]

  • McDermott sends off one of its largest structures ever built to Shell’s huge gas project

    30 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    McDermott has confirmed the load-out of a jacket built for an offshore platform destined for a natural gas development, which Shell Australia, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, operates off the coast of Western Australia.

  • BP study shows technology boosting energy supplies

    3 November 2015
    Equipment

    Advances in technology will keep energy supplies plentiful and affordable – enough to meet projected demand many times over – and help pave the way to a lower carbon energy mix, according to data published on Monday in the BP Technology Outlook. According to BP, its Technology Outlook shows how technology can play a major […]