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  • Sweden: Vattenfall Splits into Two Units

    23 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Vattenfall splits up its organisation into a Nordic unit and a continental European unit. This is one of several measures taken in response to developments in the European energy market. Vattenfall is also writing down SEK 29.7 billion of the value of the company’s assets as a consequence of market development and higher business risks. […]

  • Offshore Wind Energy: “Safety at Sea Has the Highest Priority” (Germany)

    22 August 2012

    The use of real offshore technology is indispensable for sound training of personnel for deployment in offshore wind farms, and for their safety on site. “Preparedness for emergencies, concepts for the saving and recovery of employees in emergency situations, and the maintenance of industrial health and safety standards are prerequisite for the safe erection and […]

  • Damen Shipyards Presents AHTS 200 Design at SMM 2012, Hamburg

    4 September 2012

    Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards has, at the SMM 2012 in Hamburg, presented its new Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel design, the AHTS 200. The anchor handler, a 200 ton bollard pull vessel, is one of several designs presented by Damen at one of the biggest maritime industry events in the world, the SMM 2012. It […]

  • Roxtec’s UK Division Reports 45 Pct Growth

    14 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Greater Manchester-based Roxtec is reporting a 45 per cent growth from its UK operation with sales hitting £5m, representing a four-fold increase in sales over the past eight years. The UK subsidiary of a Swedish based firm, said recent work on North Sea platforms, petrochemicals, renewable energy and construction were among key sectors for booming […]

  • Vietnam: Bien Hoa City Police Takes Action Against Illegal Sand Dredging

    30 December 2011

    Bien Hoa City Police and the waterway traffic police in the southern province of Dong Nai gave chase to nine boats seen illegally dredging sand in Tan Van Ward of the city on Thursday. While patrolling the ward at 1:30am, the police and environment protection officials spotted 30 people operating from nine boats illegally dredging […]

  • CHEC Nabs Yanbu Port Development Contract (Saudi Arabia)

    30 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    CHEC won the bid for Yanbu Industrial Port extension project in Saudi Arabia on September 11. This project is located at Yanbu, a western city in Saudi Arabia, the client is the Port Authority of Saudi Arabia and the contract amount is about USD 29 million and the time limit for this project is 660 […]

  • WOSI Replenishment Project Complete

    2 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company announced today successful completion of a dredging project at Shinnecock Inlet on Long Island. Works on the $10.7 million West of Shinnecock Inlet (WOSI) emergency replenishment project started in early February. The area first experienced problems last October and was restored several times by smaller replenishment efforts by State […]

  • PSA Checks Visund’s Flexible Risers

    20 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has inspected the integrity and barrier management of flexible risers and associated safety equipment at Statoil-operated Visund field. The objective of the activity was to follow up on issues linked to flexible risers detected, notably, during investigation of flexible risers at Visund and Njord in 2011, and to verify that […]

  • PSA Inspects Barrier Management at Wintershall’s Brage

    6 December 2016

    The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Wintershall’s barrier management at Brage. Wintershall Norge is the operator of the Brage field, located in the North Sea, approximately 13 kilometers east of Oseberg. Brage has been developed using an integrated facility on a steel jacket. The oil from the field is transported […]

  • Gazprom, PetroVietnam talk gas cooperation

    5 July 2018

    Russian giant Gazprom and the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) discussed a range of joint efforts including a small-scale LNG production complex at a meeting in Moscow.

  • Afren: No Seplat deal yet. Talks extended

    30 January 2015

    Afren, the troubled, London-listed, independent oil and gas company, has again postponed a deadline for Nigerian Seplat Petroleum to make an offer for the company. Seplat had until 5 p.m. today to ‘take it or leave it’, under the previously announced deadline extension, but Afren is now saying that the new deadline has been set. […]

  • 29 still missing, platform still burning offshore Azerbaijan

    7 December 2015

    Twenty-nine offshore workers are still unaccounted for, following an explosion that hit Socar’s platform at the Gunashli field offshore Azerbaijan on Friday. According to Azeri news agency Trend, the Gunashli 10 platform was still burning on Monday, with high winds making the firefighting efforts difficult. The incident happened on Friday after a strong storm ruptured […]

  • Novatek, Saibu Gas to Develop LNG Bunkering Business in Japan

    5 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Russian Novatek and Japanese Saibu Gas revealed plans to form a joint venture.

  • Heavily Loaded Tanker Thwarts Pirate Attack off Nigeria

    8 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    A short period of calm seas in the Gulf of Guinea was interrupted as a group of pirates attempted to board a heavily loaded tanker while it was underway off the coast of Togo. Pirates aboard a mother vessel with two skiffs chased the tanker for some 20 minutes, according to the Maritime Trade and Information Sharing Centre for the […]

  • VDR: Risk of Pirate Attacks Remains High

    9 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    The German Shipowners’ Association (VDR) has once again warned that the threat to shipping posed by pirates has not yet been eliminated as the risk of attacks remains high around the Horn of Africa. The warning was made only days after an alleged pirate attack on a German tanker some 300 nautical miles off the […]

  • Vyborg Shipyard Rolls Out First Block of VSY Icebreaker Project (Russia)

    6 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    First block of the first from the three Icebreakers of project 21900 M, being presently under construction at Vyborg Shipyard, is placed on open building berth. “Main yard capacities are focused now on construction of semi-submersible barge which is intended for hull assembly of icebreakers and other vessels with wide beam. However, all works for […]

  • Thales to Outfit Indonesian PKR Vessels with Mission Suite

    19 November 2013

    Thales has signed a contract with the Dutch shipyard Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding for the delivery and installation of a full mission systems suite for the 2 PKR class vessels under construction for the Indonesian Navy. Thales will supply the latest release of the TACTICOS Combat Management System; SMART-S Mk2 surveillance radar; STIR 1.2 Mk2 […]

  • USA: Great Lakes Shipyard Makes New Appointments

    15 January 2013

    Because of continued Shipyard expansion, Great Lakes Shipyard recently appointed three management positions. Paul W. Deterding has been appointed as Vice President & General Manager and David Dudley  as Shipyard Foreman – New Construction & Repair. Mr. Deterding formerly the General Manager at Donjon Shipbuilding and Repair Inc. LLC, brings over 25 years of experience in […]

  • China: Yuexin Shipyard Lays Keel for Maintenance Work Vessel YX3161

    14 May 2012

    On May 3rd 2012 the keel laying ceremony for 66m Maintenance/Work Vessel YX3161 build for Tidewater was held in 1# dock yard in Yuexin Shipyard. Applying the design of WARTSILA SHIP DESIGN SINGAPORE PTE LTD, the vessel is classed to American Bureau of Shipping as a Maintenance Work Vessel. With length overall 66m, breadth moulded 20m, […]

  • Tokyo Gas unit secures contract for Thailand’s Nong Fab LNG terminal

    10 January 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders

    Tokyo Gas Energy Solutions, u unit of Japan’s Tokyo Gas has been awarded a project management consultancy contract from Thailand’s PTT LNG for the construction of the Nong Fab receiving terminal. Thailand’s largest energy company, PTT, through its unit PTT LNG, is planning to build a 7.5 million tonnes of LNG per year facility with […]

  • Point Opens Door to Offshore Wind

    27 February 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Hull-based Point Engineering has delivered the first wind tower entrance door system for the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.

  • DNV GL Certifies ELA’s Offshore Accommodation

    20 July 2016

    ELA Container Offshore GmbH has obtained the DNV 2.7-2 certification for its offshore accommodation containers for the offshore wind and oil and gas industries. The latest modules are now certified according to DNV 2.7-2, an international standard of requirements for offshore service modules and living quarter containers. The DNV 2.7-2 certification addresses key safety aspects required […]

  • CIMC Group: MSC’s recently ordered LNG-powered boxships will be ammonia-ready

    17 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Collaboration, Environment, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Transition, Vessels

    Although liner heavyweight Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is trying to keep its ordering of new boxships on the down low, details have emerged of the company’s ten recently ordered LNG dual-fuel containerships. The order was confirmed by China’s CIMC Group, which disclosed that the construction contract was secured by Zhoushan Changhong, a joint venture between […]

  • Japan receives first accredited low-carbon ammonia shipment for power generation

    24 April 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Energy company Aramco has announced that a shipment of low-carbon ammonia has arrived in Japan for use as fuel in power generation. More specifically, this shipment, which is described as the first accredited low-carbon ammonia one to arrive in Japan, was transported to the Fuji Oil company’s Sodegaura Refinery for use in co-fired power generation. […]

  • Missile attack kills three, injures four sailors on bulk carrier in Gulf of Aden

    7 March 2024
    Safety

    Barbados-flagged bulk carrier True Confidence, owned by Liberian shipping company True Confidence Shipping SA, was struck in a missile attack, leaving three sailors killed and at least four injured, according to the United States Central Command (CENTCOM).