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  • Call for more action on UK’s net-zero skills strategy to avoid oil & gas workers being left stranded

    12 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The Energy Institute has revealed that the UK’s net-zero strategy must assemble a mass skilled workforce, but action is pressing.

  • UK: FabTest Welcomes First Wave Energy Device

    12 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The team behind FabTest, Cornwall’s pioneering marine energy test site in Falmouth, has welcomed the first wave device to be installed in its waters. Fred Olsen’s BOLT “Lifesaver” wave energy converter, which is ultimately capable of producing clean and efficient electricity, is now being tested in the sheltered waters off Falmouth Bay, with easy access […]

  • Aker Solutions assembles huge team for giant project: Johan Sverdrup

    26 August 2014

    Norway’s Aker Solutions says it has assembled one of its biggest engineering teams ever to deliver the initial plans for the engineering and design phase of the giant North Sea Johan Sverdrup oil deposit.   The company is on track to deliver the first draft report due in the fourth quarter, a project that has […]

  • ConocoPhillips UK Hires KL Brofjord PSV

    5 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    ConocoPhillips UK has recently chartered the KL Brofjord platform supply vessel from Norway’s K Line Offshore, a subsidiary of Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line). According to Westshore Shipbrokers, the oil firm has hired the PSV on a five-month firm contract with additional three monthly options. The dayrate for the charter has been set […]

  • GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

    23 September 2023

    Getac Technology Corporation is a global leader in rugged mobile technology and intelligent video solutions, including laptops, tablets, software, body-worn cameras, in-car video, interview rooms, and evidence management software. Getac’s solutions and services enable the vital work done by frontline workers operating in the world’s most challenging environments. Our users choose the road less traveled, […]

  • CMA CGM orders up to 10 LNG dual-fuel boxships in China

    3 September 2025
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    French container shipping and logistics major has reportedly placed an order for six firm liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuel 22,000 TEU containerships in China.

  • Brazilian oil field’s story unfolds: Rig lease and multimillion-dollar financing of FPSO revamp in place

    9 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oslo-listed oil and gas E&P player BW Energy has moved forward with its plans for an oil field in the Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil, thanks to the completion of financing for the refurbishment of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit and a short-term lease of a development rig.

  • Popular news December 23 – 29, 2019

    29 December 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    Shell in large Australia discovery, Exxon finds more oil fires up Liza FPSO in Guyana, Allseas drops Nord Stream 2

  • Redundant PSVs could get new lease of life as dredgers

    23 November 2017
    Equipment

    Redundant PSVs could be turned into trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD) used for the maintenance of navigable waterways.

  • IEA: Pandemic to slow energy demand recovery. Upstream spending to pick up

    14 October 2020
    Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vision

    A slow recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic or a deeper slump could delay a complete rebound in the world’s energy demand to 2025, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

  • Overseas Shipholding Group Settles with Proskauer

    15 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    US tanker company Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. has reached a final settlement with Proskauer Rose LLP and certain of its partners in connection with the previously disclosed lawsuit brought against that firm by the company. OSG said that as part of the settlement, Proskauer Rose LLP has agreed to release the claims it asserted against […]

  • ‘Largest’ oil export project in US waters greenlighted: Smooth sailing or more legal action on the horizon?

    26 April 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Ports & Logistics, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    A deepwater port license has been issued for a project that is said to be the largest oil export project in U.S. history.

  • OGUK: Tax change vital step to unlock new investment in North Sea

    23 November 2017

    UK’s oil and gas industry has welcomed the government’s commitment to introduce a tax measure that will unlock further investment in the UK North Sea.

  • DNV GL: Diversification of Fuels for Shipping After LNG

    10 February 2014

    The main drivers for the use of alternative fuels are the desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the need to meet upcoming air pollution requirements. “The global merchant fleet currently consumes around 330 million tonnes of fuel annually, 80-85 per cent of which is residual fuel with high sulphur content,” says Christos Chryssakis, senior […]

  • Metgasco: Quarterly Activities Report (Australia)

    31 January 2011

    Metgasco today announced activities report for the quarter ended December 31, 2010. Highlights – The drilling of the Harrier Multi-Lateral Pilot in the Eden Creek trend is expected to commence in February 2011. – Good progress on Metgasco’s basin wide CSG exploration program with drilling and testing completed on Thornbill E01, Thornbill E02 and South […]

  • With oil & gas markets on tenterhooks in the wake of the Israel-Palestine war, is a reinvigorated push for clean energy coming?

    9 October 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Project & Tenders, Transition

    While current impacts are bound to be limited, a further spike along with a disruption of oil supplies are believed to be on the cards if Iran joins the fray.

  • Ivorians to sue ‘toxic ship’ firm

    24 October 2006

    Dutch lawyer representing some 1,000 victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast says he is suing the company that shipped the waste there. Dutch firm Trafigura has denied responsibility for dumping the waste in the city of Abidjan, saying it employed a local company to dispose of it. But the lawyer says Trafigura should […]

  • Firm ‘built drug dealer’s boats’

    17 January 2007

    A boat builder designed high-speed vessels for international drug smugglers, a court has heard. Ian Rush, 42, is accused of continuing to build boats virtually invisible to radar after his partners were arrested. The boats were made for criminals to transport drugs between North Africa and Spain, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

  • Dredging firm to set up base

    7 April 2005

    MANAMA: An Indian government corporation that carries out dredging activities around the world is to establish a regional office in Bahrain, it was revealed yesterday. The Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) is already involved in dredging work in Bahrain. However, it will establish a base in the country for its activities in the region, said […]

  • Shipping firms sign subsidy contracts

    6 April 2005

    SOME shipping companies have started signing contracts after winning tenders for shipping subsidies. But the Fiji Shipping Corporation chairman Malcolm Harrison said a formal announcement over which operators were successful would not be made until all subsidy contracts were signed. He could not put a time frame on when the announcement would be made, blaming […]

  • Five North Koreans defect by boat

    18 March 2006

    Five North Koreans have fled to South Korea in a small fishing boat, avoiding detection along one of the world’s most heavily fortified borders.

  • Ship refit comes to Fife dockyard

    6 December 2007

    The contract to overhaul one of the Ministry of Defence’s warships has been awarded to a dockyard in Rosyth. Babcock Marine will take charge of the refit of type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland as part of a £17m deal.

  • Royal Caribbean Facing Major Fine

    17 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Netherlands has fined Royal Caribbean cruise line for violation of labour rules and regulations for foreign workers. The cruise liner, owner of the world’s biggest cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, will have to pay at least  €600,000 (USD 767,000) in fines for not having adequate residence papers for its workers, who have in addition […]

  • HFW Hires LNG Lawyer (UK)

    19 October 2011

    Holman Fenwick Willan announced the recruitment of Susan Farmer, who joins the firm’s London office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Projects & Finance practice.   Susan represents clients in the energy, natural resources and electric power sectors in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of oil and gas and other natural resource project transactions, acquisitions […]

  • UK: Hess Hires WilPhoenix Rig

    21 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    On October 6 Awilco Drilling PLC signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Hess UK Ltd for the provision of WilPhoenix for work related to their 2012 abandonment program on the Fife and Fergus fields.  Yesterday, Awilco confirmed that the contract is signed and is due to commence late Q1 2012. The contract duration is […]