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  • MPC Container Ships voices bankruptcy fears as it plots $15 million cash-raising to fight corona impact

    22 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Oslo-listed feeder owner and operator MPC Container Ships is looking to amend the terms of its $200 million bond issue and collect fresh cash in order to mitigate the negative impact from COVID-19 on the company’s liquidity. To that end, MPC Container Ships Invest B.V., the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, has requested Nordic Trustee AS as […]

  • Enbridge to invest in Woodfibre LNG

    1 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Canadian pipeline company Enbridge has signed a deal with Pacific Energy to jointly invest in the construction and operation of the Woodfibre LNG project.

  • Rystad: Renewables investments in Asia to overtake oil and gas in 2020

    27 May 2019

    Renewable energy investment in Asia, excluding China, will overtake spending on upstream oil and gas projects in the region as soon as next year, according to Norwegian oil and gas intelligence firm Rystad Energy.

  • American Offshore Wind Sector Still Generating News

    17 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    There’s no shortage of developments in the US offshore wind power sector these days even though there is still not a single wind turbine generating power off the nation’s eastern coast. Capturing most media attention last week was Deepwater Wind which announced its plans to construct the Deepwater Wind Energy Center (DWEC), the first of […]

  • 2014-built rig kicks off its five-year Asian drilling gig

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

    Singapore’s tender-assisted drilling provider Energy Drilling, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyprus-headquartered SED Energy Holdings, has confirmed the start of its 11-year-old rig’s drilling assignment with Thailand’s national oil and gas company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP).

  • EIA: Gas Use for Industrial Purposes Rising (USA)

    21 June 2013

    Natural gas use for industrial purposes was more than 3%, or 0.6 billion cubic feet per day, greater during the first five months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. Higher industrial gas usage reflects recent economic gains and sustained, historically low natural gas prices that have provided operators of natural gas-intensive industrial […]

  • Cathelco Equipment to Protect Quantum Class Cruise Ships

    6 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    When the first of Royal Caribbean’s new generation of Quantum class cruise ships is launched this year, Cathelco equipment will be protecting the hull and seawater pipework systems. The Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas can each accommodate more than 4,000 guests in RCCL’s largest and most advanced staterooms. At 348 metres […]

  • USA: Ecology Seeks Comments on K Ply Cleanup Plan

    17 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Department of Ecology is seeking public comment on a proposed legal agreement with the Port of Port Angeles for cleanup of the K Ply site. People can learn more about the proposal during an Oct. 22 presentation and open house. It will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Olympic Medical Center in […]

  • Report on Evolution and Economics of Wind Power Available

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “The Evolution and Economics of Wind Power” report to their offering.  Chapter 1 The wind resource and global wind generating capacity Wind is the movement of air generated by the earth’s rotation and by the heating of the atmosphere by the sun. The wind resulting is […]

  • Siemens Receives Two Major Orders from Thailand for Industrial Gas Turbines

    25 February 2011

      Siemens Energy has been awarded contracts from Thailand for a total of 16 SGT-800 industrial gas turbines for combined cycle cogeneration plants (CCCP) under Thailand´s Small Power Producer (SPP) program. For the end customer Gulf JP, an independent power producer headquartered in Bangkok, Siemens will supply via EPC contractor Toyo Engineering Corporation based in […]

  • Locals worried after Australia opens bidding for new offshore acreage

    16 June 2021
    Authorities & Government, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy

    Australia has opened bidding for the 2021 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release, offering around 80,000 square kilometres for exploration in Commonwealth waters.

  • State-of-the-Art ASD Tug SIGNET MAGIC Delivered

    31 July 2013

    Signet Maritime Corporation announced delivery of its newest vessel, a Robert Allan designed AZ 25/60 Class towing and escort tug, M/V SIGNET MAGIC, on July 26, 2013 from Signet Shipbuilding & Repair, Pascagoula, Mississippi. This Signet owned state-of-the-art ASD will be used at multiple Gulf of Mexico locations for harbor assist, and ship and rig […]

  • Majority of Ships Still Scrapped in South Asia

    25 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    A total of 128 end­-of-­life ships were sold for scrap to the South Asian beaches during the first quarter of 2017, according to the data collected and analysed by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. The number represents 65 percent of ships which reached the shores of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, out of a total of 196 vessels sold for demolition worldwide during the […]

  • Offshore regulator warns Saipem over safety breaches on Scarabeo 8 rig

    12 April 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norway’s offshore safety agency has issued a notification of order to Saipem over its Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible following an audit which identified safety breaches on the rig. 

  • Rotterdam’s Box Volumes Continue Growing

    19 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Container volumes at the Dutch port of Rotterdam continued rising with an increase of 10.1 percent during the first nine months of 2017. The port’s container throughput for the nine-month period was at a total of 10.2 million units (TEU), compared to 9.3 million TEU handled in the same period in 2016. The port attributed […]

  • Damen introduce ‘Patriot’, a promising new addition to the ASD range

    24 February 2010

    In November 2009 the Damen Shipyards Changde in China delivered the powerful and compact harbour tug Patriot, the first of a pair of identical tugs built for use in the Ukraine. Patriot, and sister ship Bulat completed two month later, were ordered by Tekom Leasing Ltd, the end-user of this tug is Odessa Sea Commercial […]

  • VIDEO: Prize Winning Stinger Handling System Improves Vessel Design and Pipe-Laying

    17 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    ULSTEIN is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operations, and as acknowledgment on April 16th 2013, the equipment has won the bi-annual IRO Innovation Prize. The participants casted their votes for the 4 […]

  • Never avoid a challenge: New offshore accommodation module revealed

    17 October 2012

    Kept secret for months, on 17 October 2012 the news could finally be revealed: Titan Offshore Modules, a new specialist for offshore accommodation modules to the worldwide offshore energy industry, has announced the official start of the company. The new company developed a carbon steel offshore accommodation module, that is 40% to 50% lighter than the steel modules currently […]

  • Transocean rig trio staying longer in South America and Europe

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

    Transocean, an offshore drilling giant, has lined up more work off the coasts of Brazil, Norway, and Romania for one of its drillships and two semi-submersible rigs.

  • “It’s coming home!” To Germany

    11 July 2018

    “It’s coming home!” To Germany. Not football, obviously, as die Mannschaft dropped out earlier this month in the group stages of the World Cup.

  • Pemex patches up pipeline in the aftermath of oil spill offshore Mexico

    12 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Pemex has undertaken repair work at a pipeline, which is connected to its oil platform off the coast of Mexico, to address leaks and prevent hydrocarbon presence on the North American country’s coast.

  • Asbestos scandal engulfs Italian ferry after controversial Croatia refurbishment plan

    2 September 2025
    Environment, Safety, Vessels

    The Italy-flagged ferry Moby Drea, once cleared by Italian authorities for refurbishment in Croatia, has re-emerged as a controversial dismantling case after protests from Croatian civil society organizations exposed its heavy asbestos contamination, raising questions over regulatory oversight and the vessel’s true fate. As informed, news that a fifty-year-old Italian ferry was bound for Croatia […]

  • UXO Risk mitigation tools and techniques

    26 March 2020
    Safety, Technology

    By Eize de Vries Unexploded ordnance (UXO) represents substantial risk and cost for the rapidly growing global offshore wind industry when planning new large-scale windfarms including cable routing and other activities in the marine environment. We spoke with Fugro Project Director Marco Gilissen, who leads an expanding subsea geo-intelligence group specialized in the full spectrum […]

  • Bureau Veritas Lays Framework for Tug Design

    19 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    International classification society Bureau Veritas has worked closely with the towing industry to develop a comprehensive set of Guidelines for Design, Construction and Operation of Tugs. The Guidance Note provides harmonised and rationalised safety rules for tugs in an area of marine safety where there are many vessels not covered by international conventions and no […]

  • DW: Supermajors’ Q1 earnings to be ‘weakest in recent memory’

    13 April 2015

    Despite major cost reduction measures, Q1 2015 earnings for supermajors are expected to be the weakest in recent memory, Douglas Westwood, an energy intelligence group writes in its “DW Monday” report.   Operational and financial indicators for FY 2014, however, reveal that recent performance amongst the big 5 has been far from homogeneous. In short, […]