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  • WSS Opens New Training Academy in Antwerp, Belgium

    26 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) opens a new FRS (fire, rescue & service) Centre and Safety Training Academy in Antwerp, Belgium, today. Andrew Sheriff, Business Director Safety said: “The opening of new safety service training facilities around the world will play a vital role in the growth of our Total Safety offer. Centres also housing a […]

  • HB Rentals supports Jack-Up Barge’s Conwy gas field ops

    26 June 2014

    Offshore accommodation and workspace specialists HB Rentals has been awarded a major integrated services project with self-elevating platform provider Jack-Up Barge.   The contract, believed to be in the region of one million pounds, has seen HB Rentals deliver and install a 60Pax linkable accommodation complex comprising of sleeper and welfare modules, access stairs and […]

  • Chinese Shipyards to Get Solutions for Problematic Deliveries

    4 September 2012

    Cardiff-based Graig Group and Global Maritime Investments are extending their co-operation to provide Chinese shipyards with safe havens and tailor-made solutions for problematic deliveries. Working together, the two groups will provide yards with employment and management for vessels which have been built but which cannot be delivered to the owner. The joint approach builds on […]

  • Wartsila Secures Inert Gas Contract for Ichthys Project in Australia

    16 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Wärtsilä Moss AS has won a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) to supply inert gas generator (IGG) units to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG project in the Browse Basin, approximately 200km off western Australia. The vessel is due for delivery in April 2016; […]

  • USA: Secretary of the Navy Announces Name of Next Arleigh Burke Destroyer

    8 May 2012

    Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced yesterday that the next Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (DDG) will be named the USS Thomas Hudner. The Arleigh Burke class destroyer will be able to conduct a variety of operations, from peacetime presence and crisis management to sea control and power projection. The contract to construct DDG […]

  • UK: South Boats, Wind Wave Workboats Sign Construction Contract for 17m Vigilante Catamaran

    27 October 2011

    South Boats Special Projects Ltd. and Wind Wave Workboats Ltd have signed a contract for the construction for the ‘Freddie S’, a first of class South Boats 17m Vigilante catamaran. The vessel will be built at South Boats’ new facility in Cowes and will be delivered in August 2012. This is the first vessel to […]

  • DELTA to Buy Electricity from Gemini Offshore Wind Farm

    3 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Gemini announced today that it has signed an off-take balance and services agreement with DELTA, an energy company based in the province of Zeeland, which as a result, will soon be the biggest supplier of Dutch wind energy. DELTA will purchase green electricity from Gemini, the biggest offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. This agreement […]

  • UK: Company Relaunches to Tackle Skills Challenge

    18 February 2013

    The search for enough skilled workers to meet the future demands of the East of England energy industry has prompted one recruitment business to rename and relaunch itself ready for the challenges ahead. Inspired by its own slogan, Beccles-based PDS will from this week be known as People With Energy (PWE Recruitment Group Ltd) focusing […]

  • Wind Turbine Safety Increase with Industry Expansion (USA)

    26 December 2011

    Wind energy has begun to lead the way in alternative energy solutions. Manufacturers of wind turbines face challenges such as reducing downtimes and maintenance work. Some of the demands placed on turbine components include extreme temperature conditions, vibration, oscillation and aggressive offshore air composition. Keeping wind turbines safely operating is becoming increasingly important as more […]

  • Shell hires Seadrill drillship for five wells in Malaysia

    5 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore drilling specialist Seadrill Partners has secured a contract with Shell for one of its drillships.

  • Denmark: Five Shipping Firms Violate Sulfur Measures

    20 June 2016
    Business & Finance

    Five shipping companies were reported for violating sulfur requirements, which came into effect on January 1, 2015, according to the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food. Based on oil samples, the five companies, which operate on fuels with high sulfur content, were reported to the police. Relevant authorities are now scheduled to conduct investigations into the reports, following […]

  • Two more projects online as Asian giant pursues ‘green and low-carbon’ oil & gas development

    17 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Transition

    CNOOC has brought on stream two oilfield projects off the coast of China, with the help of so-called intelligent technologies, which are said to unlock the doors of low-emission hydrocarbon development.

  • Newly formed Houston firm sheds subsea tree business to focus on core product lines

    1 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vision

    Innovex International, a Houston-based provider of products and technologies to the oil & gas industry, established in 2024 by the merger of Dril-Quip and Innovex Downhole Solutions, has completed the divestment of its Subsea Tree product line to compatriot Trendsetter Engineering in an all-cash transaction. According to Innovex, the non-core product line had generated less […]

  • AMSA: Shipping firm, CO fined for dumping waste

    4 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Human Capital, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    The chief officer and company of a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier have been fined and convicted for dumping garbage into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

  • GDF SUEZ Hires ‘SeaMar Splendid’ for Five Years

    21 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    SeaMar Shipping BV announced that the company have contracted their vessel SeaMar Splendid for a five year contract with GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V. This award to support GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V. IRM campaigns on the Dutch Shelf over the period 2013-2017 with a minimum 250 day per year commitment represents a significant step […]

  • Mitsui Hires Five Ships for Exporting Cameron LNG

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Japanese-based trading house Mitsui & Co. said it was pushing forward with the procurement of eight LNG ships to be used for the delivery of LNG mainly to its customers in Japan from the Cameron LNG Export Project in the U.S. On September 26, 2014, Mitsui signed time charter parties for five of the above […]

  • LEEDCo Hires Local Firm for Icebreaker Grid Link

    26 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Storage

    Cleveland-based Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) has selected a local company, Middough Inc., to provide engineering services for the design and construction of the land based electric facilities needed to connect the Icebreaker offshore wind farm to the Cleveland Public Power (CPP) Lake Road substation. LEEDCo is the developer of Project Icebreaker, North America’s first freshwater […]

  • Go-ahead for life extension of Woodside’s huge offshore gas project to 2070

    28 May 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Australian energy giant Woodside Energy has welcomed the federal government’s proposed decision to grant environmental approval for the extension of its mega gas project off the coast of Australia. This prolongs the project’s lifetime from 2030 to 2070.

  • Norway: PSA to Help Reduce Accident Risk Similar to Deepwater Horizon on NCS

    20 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      Much effort has been devoted to learning from the Deepwater Horizon accident. The PSA has already identified three key areas where action is needed to help reduce major accident risk on the NCS. Eleven people died when the semisubmersible rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico during April 2010. Many more […]

  • Vår Energi hires Norwegian mechanical services firm

    16 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas company Vår Energi has awarded a framework agreement for mechanical services to Norwegian engineering company Hammerfest Industriservice.

  • South Korean Shipping Firm Fined for Oil Dumping

    6 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipping company Doorae Shipping Co. has been fined by the US District Court of Hawaii for dumping oily bilge water into the ocean, court documents show. In February, the 2009-built oil tanker B.Sky, owned by Doorae Shipping, discharged polluted water into the ocean while several hundred miles off the coast of Hawaii. The […]

  • Mexico Fines Shipping Firms for Antitrust Law Violation

    12 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Mexican antitrust authorities have fined seven shipping companies for a number of collusions which led to a rise in prices on Ro-Ro shipping routes in Mexico. The companies in question are the Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV), Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), K Line America, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Mitsui OSK Bulk Shipping (MOBUSA), Nippon […]

  • Five Japanese firms invest in Petrobras-chartered FPSO

    11 May 2018
    Infrastructure

    The FPSO will be named FPSO Guanabara MV31 and will be deployed at the Mero field located in the Libra block.

  • USA: Ingalls Shipbuilding Delivers Composite Deckhouse for Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

    10 October 2012

    Huntington Ingalls Industries, company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the U.S. Navy. The 900-ton deckhouse provides an advanced structure to house the ship’s bridge, radars, antennas and intake/exhaust systems and is designed to provide a significantly smaller radar cross-section than any other ship in today’s […]

  • Afren-Seplat takeover talks cancelled

    13 February 2015

    Afren plc, an oil and gas company which has been reviewing the funding and liquidity requirements of the business, has today said that it has terminated the talks with Nigeria’s Seplat over a possible takeover. To remind, the company in December last year said it had received a highly preliminary approach from SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company plc […]