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  • Vale Prepares for Paraopeba River Dredging

    20 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Vale, a Brazilian mining company, is moving ahead with emergency projects to implement measures for containing the tailings coming from Dam I of the Córrego do Feijão Mine, located in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  In Section 1 of the plan, in the affected 10-km stretch that extends from Dam 1 to the Paraopeba River, running […]

  • Tullow preps Dolphin rig for Rome prospect

    2 June 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil to drill an exploration well in the North Sea with the Borgland Dolphin semi-sub.  The well 16/5-6 will be drilled in block 16/5 in the North Sea production licence 776, in a prospect called Rome. It is located around 37 kilometres southeast of the […]

  • PHOTO: ‘Ceona Amazon’ gets pipelay system

    8 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Huisman Equipment has informed that the company installed the 570mt pipelay system onboard Ceona’s  flagship asset Ceona Amazon. The system was installed at the Huisman Schiedam quayside in The Netherlands. Ceona Amazon is a pipelay and heavy subsea construction vessel. It arrived at Huisman’s yard in December for multi-lay pipe tower and two heavy duty 400 tonne offshore […]

  • Most read articles of 2014, Vol. 2

    2 January 2015

    Yesterday, we published a list of fifteen most read articles of the year. Today, as previously announced, we are running a second batch. If you haven’t read the first part, click here.     16. ‘Largest ever subsea structure’ at Ichthys     17. 1 dead, 3 hurt in Gulf of Mexico platform blast      18. Flying offshore […]

  • South Africa’s Transnet eyes LNG terminal development

    26 July 2019

    South Africa’s state-run logistics company Transnet is gearing up to start the development of the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Richards Bay port. 

  • Indonesia: Bojonegoro LNG terminal to receive JBIC funds by June

    17 November 2015

    Proposed LNG receiving terminal in Bojonegoro could obtain project funds from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation by May or June 2016 Kalla Group’s senior LNG project coordinator, Ari Soemarno said.

  • Report: Engie keeping LNG business, sheds oil, coal

    21 September 2016

    Contrary to recent reports, Engie of France is not planning to sell its liquefied natural gas business, but it is looking to stop its coal and oil production activities.

  • Harbours along the Pacific coast get $50 million boost

    11 August 2021
    Business Developments & Projects

    The Government of Canada is investing a total of $50 million in the next two years to help renew 26 small craft harbours in communities along the Pacific coast. This includes $17 million in the Steveston Small Craft Harbour, $11 million in small craft harbours in the Prince Rupert area, and $22 million at other smaller harbours along the Pacific coast. The harbour at Steveston is receiving […]

  • Records Broken at Port of Dover

    10 July 2014

    A record number of freight vehicles departed on services through the Port of Dover on July 8th, reaching numbers not seen since before the recession.    Some 5,337 freight vehicles departed for Calais and Dunkirk from Europe’s busiest ferry port, beating the previous record of 5,322 set in 2008. It was also the third busiest […]

  • US Navy, BAE Systems Ink USD 78 Million Contract (USA)

    23 August 2012

    The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $78 million contract modification to produce canisters for Mk 41 and Mk 57 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS) on cruisers and destroyer battleships. This new contract increases the current contract value to $158 million. “BAE Systems has produced the canisters for the Navy since 1985, and this contract […]

  • Three Dead in Platform Accident off Azerbaijan

    24 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Three workers died, with the fourth still missing, when the structures collapsed at the Socar’s platform No 441 of the Narimanov oil and gas production department (OGPD) in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan, Socar says in a written statement. Socar goes on to say  that ”the structures collapsed during the repair works and a wagon-house fell into the […]

  • Black Elk fined over fatal Gulf of Mexico platform explosion

    1 September 2017

    Houston-based oil company Black Elk Energy (BEE) has been convicted of worker safety and clean water act violations in connection with a fatal offshore platform explosion in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and ordered to pay a $4.2 million fine.  Black Elk was sentenced on Thursday on eight felony violations of the Outer Continental Shelf […]

  • USA: Hernando County Commission Okays Contract with New Dredge Overseer

    13 April 2011

    A divided County Commission on Tuesday approved a formal contract with Gritz Development and Construction to provide construction management services on the Hernando Beach Channel dredging project. The firm, headed by general contractor Greg Jarque, has been at the center of a controversy that continued through Tuesday’s commission discussion. Residents questioned the need to spend […]

  • DONG Energy: No Oil, No Gas, No Coal

    2 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment

    DONG Energy has decided to entirely phase out the use of coal as fuel at its power stations by 2023. Since 2006, DONG Energy has reduced its coal consumption by 73% and will replace it at the power stations with sustainable biomass to achieve the zero point.

  • Kongsberg Maritime to supply Ghana with engine room simulator

    11 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    The Regional Maritime University has awarded Kongsberg Maritime a contract to deliver its K-Sim Engine simulator for its premises in Accra, Ghana. The highly advanced Full Mission Engine Room Simulator, which is due for delivery in May 2014 will enable RMU to provide education according to STCW requirements. RMU is a tertiary institution that gained […]

  • EIA: U.S. natural gas prices, production, exports rise in 2018

    8 January 2019

    In 2018, the average annual Henry Hub natural gas spot price increased to $3.16 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), up 15 cents from the 2017 average, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

  • Highlights of the Month: January 2016

    2 February 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    Sea Worker Runs Aground off Denmark, Crew Evacuated Offshore installation vessel Sea Worker ran aground south of Denmark’s Hvide Sande on the night between 26 and 27 January while under tow to Esbjerg, A2SEA said in a statement. Umoe Ventus Sinks After Catching Fire off Langeland The Wave Craft Surface Effect Ship Umoe Ventus sank yesterday […]

  • Pentagon: Maersk Tigris Seized by Iranian Navy

    29 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Maersk Tigris container ship issued a distress call Tuesday morning after an Iranian Navy ship fired shots across its bridge and Iranian personnel boarded the commercial vessel, a Pentagon spokesman said. Army Col. Steve Warren told members of the Pentagon press corps that at about 2:05 a.m. Eastern Time, several Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps […]

  • Report: Lebanon asks for arrests of Russian captain, shipowner linked to Beirut blast

    2 October 2020
    Authorities & Government, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Lebanese public prosecutors have asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for the Russian captain and owner of cargo vessel Rhosus, from which a shipment of ammonium nitrate was confiscated back in 2013, Reuters reported citing Lebanese NNA news agency. Boris Prokoshev has been identified as the captain of the Rhosus ship at the time, while […]

  • ABB’s Electrical Power and Propulsion Systems for Two Offshore Vessels

    19 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    ABB, the leading 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 […]

  • Final countdown begins for launch of Hong Kong LNG terminal

    18 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    The preparations for the launch of the offshore Hong Kong LNG terminal have entered its final stage following the completion of checks and clearance procedures for the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) which arrived in Hong Kong on 13 April. Power companies CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) and the Hongkong Electric (HK […]

  • Most watched offshore industry galleries of 2017

    2 January 2018

    Offshore Energy Today is sharing the most popular galleries published on our website during 2017.

  • Houthis to Target Ships Off Yemen If Ports Don’t Reopen?

    13 November 2017

    The closure of Yemeni ports by the Saudi-led coalition is heating up tensions in the region as Houthi movement threatens to target commercial ships in the region as a sign of retaliation. “The battleships and oil tankers of the aggression and their movements will not be safe from the fire of Yemeni naval forces if […]

  • Esvagt names new ERRV Esvagt Chastine. Next step Lundin contract

    19 June 2015

    Esvagt, an offshore rescue and support vessel operator, has held a naming ceremony yesterday, June 18, 2015, for one of their Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRV), Esvagt Chastine. The vessel is the fifteenth C-type ERRV in Esvagt’s fleet. Its godmother was Gitte Hansen. According to the company, Esvagt Chastine, constructed at ASL Shipyard in Singapore, will start […]

  • Gondan delivers LNG-fueled tug to Østensjø Rederi

    10 July 2017
    Vessels

    Spain’s Gondan Shipbuilders said that PAX, the second LNG-fueled tug ever built in Europe, has been delivered to its owner, the Norwegian company Østensjø Rederi.