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  • Siemens: Germany Can Save More than EUR 150 Billion with Its Energy Transition

    6 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Storage

    The costs of restructuring Germany’s energy system are too high. With the present energy transition concept, it will not be possible to achieve security of supply while also ensuring sustainability and affordability. The current approach also establishes false incentives for investment and innovation. According to Siemens’ calculations, Germany could save more than €150 billion by […]

  • OGA Studies Offshore Gas and Wind Links

    19 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    An innovative partnership between gas platforms and wind farms could see more power generated – maximising both gas production and renewable electricity generation offshore, according to a report from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). The concept of gas-to-wire (GTW) involves using the gas produced from gas fields to be generated into electricity offshore and […]

  • IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee Adopted Passenger Drill Amendments

    1 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) met at the Organization’s London Headquarters for its 92nd session from 12 to 21 June 2013. The MSC adopted amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) relating to passenger drills; discussed recommendations arising from the Costa Concordia incident; and considered matters related to piracy […]

  • IMB: Kidnappings Persists Despite Drop in Piracy

    1 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    Kidnapping and hostage-taking persists off the coasts of West Africa and South East Asia, despite a 20-year low in piracy on the world’s seas, according data provided by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB). IMB’s latest global piracy report shows that pirates armed with guns or knives took 110 seafarers hostage […]

  • German firm books LNG from Woodside’s ‘largest growth project’

    17 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Australia’s energy giant Woodside Energy has signed two liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements with Germany’s Uniper.

  • Damen delivers two more offshore patrol vessels to Nigeria’s Homeland

    23 July 2019

    Damen has delivered two additional fast crew supplier vessels configured as patrol boats to West African offshore services supplier Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Limited.

  • Gulf of Mexico: BP to Seal the Oil Leak Spot with 100-ton Cork

    9 May 2010

    A 12-man crew was making final preparations Wednesday to take a 100-ton contraption on a journey to an oil leak site in the Gulf of Mexico in an unprecedented attempt to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of the sea about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The giant-concrete-and-steel box is the best […]

  • Unions: Job cuts could create Piper Alpha-like disaster (UK)

    2 February 2015

    Cuts being made across the offshore oil industry as a result of the falling oil price will compromise safety and lose key skills to the UK, the UK’s biggest union, Unite, has said. With oil companies set to reduce spending on investment and exploration by $170 billion (37 per cent of spend) by 2017, Unite […]

  • Amels and Imtech celebrate partnership with first cables pulled onboard the first limited editions Amels 212 superyacht

    4 March 2009

    Recently a special event took place at the Amels shipyard in Vlissingen. The first cables were pulled on board of an Amels new building yacht, construction no. 6501. This vessel is one of the new limited editions Amels 212 series: a yacht measuring more than 65 meters, with seven state-rooms, five decks, and innumerable rooms, […]

  • Duo teams up on amplifying role of LNG across Asia’s energy mix

    23 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    The Asia Natural Gas and Energy Association (ANGEA) and the Korean Private LNG Industry Association have inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to foster cooperation on natural gas development in Asia and explore the role of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the energy transition.

  • SEVEN WAVES Pipelaying Vessel Launched (The Netherlands)

    3 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede has today successfully launched Subsea 7’s 550t pipelaying vessel, SEVEN WAVES, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming ceremony was carried out by Mrs Lucia Andrade, the ship’s God Mother and Subsea 7 Brazil’s Vice President Projects & Operations. The SEVEN WAVES is the fifth vessel contracted by […]

  • Inpex inks MoUs for long-term gas supply from Abadi project

    20 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    Japanese oil and gas firm Inpex has signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with PT PLN Persero (PLN) and PT Pupuk Indonesia for the long-term domestic LNG and pipeline natural gas supply from the Abadi LNG project offshore Indonesia.

  • IHC Merwede Launches Pipelaying Vessel SEVEN WAVES

    3 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede has today successfully launched Subsea 7’s 550t pipelaying vessel, SEVEN WAVES, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming ceremony was carried out by Lucia Andrade, the ship’s God Mother and Subsea 7 Brazil’s Vice President Projects & Operations. The SEVEN WAVES is the fifth vessel contracted by Subsea […]

  • More action time for Dolphin Drilling’s 1974-built rig offshore India

    20 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Dolphin Drilling, an Oslo-listed, Aberdeen-headquartered owner and operator of a fleet of harsh environment mid-water and deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, has secured a contract extension for one of its units with Oil India Limited, an exploration and production company, for operations off the coast of India.

  • Three more Kotug vessels come to Guyana for work with ExxonMobil

    15 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Kotug has welcomed the arrival of three additional vessels in Guyana, which will support ExxonMobil’s offshore operations.

  • EIA: electric generating capacity additions mostly wind and natural gas

    11 March 2015

    In 2015, electric generating companies expect to add more than 20 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale generating capacity to the power grid, the U.S. EIA said in a report. The additions are dominated by wind (9.8 GW), natural gas (6.3 GW), and solar (2.2 GW), which combine to make up 91% of total additions. Because different […]

  • Optimarin’s Early Order Surge to Make 2019 Best Year Ever

    4 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Optimarin: 2019 is shaping up to set a new standard, with orderbook currently five times the size it was at this point in 2018.

  • Swire names two vessels

    27 March 2015

    Shipowner and operator, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Ltd (SPO) this week celebrated the naming of two new vessels, Pacific Centurion, and Pacific Goldfinch. Pacific Centurion is an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel, and Pacific Goldfinch, a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) were named at the dual vessel naming ceremony held on Tuesday, 24 March 2015 […]

  • USA: Drew Marine Acquires Alexander/Ryan Marine & Safety

    5 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Drew Marine announced yesterday the completion of the acquisition of Alexander/Ryan Marine & Safety and Sea Technology. Alexander/Ryan is a leading manufacturer, distributor and safety certification provider for the Offshore and Marine industries. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas with operations in New Orleans and New Iberia, Louisiana. The company is a distributor of […]

  • Caterpillar Marks Notable Safety Milestones at Global Marine Engine Manufacturing Facilities

    21 April 2010

    Over the course of the last two years, one of the top priorities for Caterpillar Marine Power Systems has been safety, not only of employees, but also of the customers who operate Cat® and MaK marine engines around the world every day. Internally, Caterpillar facilities are measured monthly by safety metrics recording new injuries, recordable […]

  • Denmark and the Netherlands Raise Green Targets

    6 October 2011
    Authorities & Government

      The Dutch and Danish governments have boosted their efforts to meet EU environmental targets for 2020 this week by setting new national goals for reducing emissions and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. Maxime Verhagen, Dutch minister for economic affairs, agriculture and innovation, announced yesterday that the government will cut red tape to […]

  • Irregularities spotted during safety probe on Haven rig

    16 October 2018
    Exploration & Production

    The PSA has found irregularities during an audit of the Haven accommodation rig working on the Johan Sverdrup field.

  • Companies face manslaughter charges over fatal rig explosion

    20 November 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three companies and three individuals with crimes related to an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, in November 2012.  Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC, Grand Isle Shipyards, Wood Group PSN, as well as Don Moss, Curtis Dantin, and Christopher Srubar have been charged with crimes […]

  • ‘World’s first’ commercial-use ammonia-fueled tugboat achieves 95% emission reduction

    28 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Tugboat Sakigake, also known as the world’s first commercial-use ammonia-fueled vessel, has wrapped up its demonstration voyage, reaching a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction of up to approximately 95%, the vessel’s operator NYK Line has reported.

  • Three tenders up for grabs for second Malta-Italy interconnector

    6 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    InterConnect Malta, owned by the Maltese government, has issued three new tenders for the second electrical interconnector between Malta and Italy. This comes less than a month after the project had received final approval. The IC2 interconnector will consist of a new ~122-kilometer-long 225 MW HVAC electrical cable interconnection between the Terna substation at Ragusa, […]