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  • VOR: Brunel makes five

    22 May 2006

    After a tough leg that saw them destroy their headsail tack fitting, rip their mainsail, rip one wheel from the pedestal among many other serious problems, Brunel with Skipper Matt Humphries in charge crossed the finish like at Gilkicker point close to Portsmouth at 1016GMT and 32 seconds.

  • Foreign fishing vessel fined

    2 March 2006

    THE registrar of a foreign fishing vessel places strong disciplinary action against its vessels, which breach licence. The comment comes from the directors of the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize.

  • OCTRA Hired for Floatgen Works

    5 October 2016

    French transport engineering company, OCTRA, has been contracted to supply the construction barges as well as associated equipment and skilled staff for the first building phase of the Floatgen project. The company will also work on the full float out of the 5,000-tonne caisson. OCTRA is supporting the Floatgen project together with her sister company Coordinadora and […]

  • Germany: Windreich Files for Insolvency

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    German wind energy developer, Windreich AG, filed for insolvency last week while the company’s CEO Willi Balz submitted his resignation yesterday. Werner Heer has assumed the role of the new CEO. With this step, Windreich tightened the course for the rehabilitation of the company. In cooperation with the previous management, Heer will focus in particular […]

  • DOF signs three new contracts for its vessels

    13 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Norwegian owner of offshore support vessel DOF has been awarded contracts for three of its vessels. The company today said that the contracts were secured by its subsidiaries DOF Rederi AS and Waveney AS. Under the contract, the Skandi Fjord construction support vessel, has been hired by Saipem America Inc. Saipem has chartered the 1983-built […]

  • Sailing Olympics – Day 3 Preview

    11 August 2008

    SWEEPING THE COURSE Several hundred local boats littered the race course area right out to the horizon, (which is a surprisingly long way this morning thanks to the overnight rain), as the flotilla cleared up the infamous weed that had started to stray onto the course areas late in the afternoon yesterday. By 11am the […]

  • Converting Platform Supply Vessels Into Dredgers

    24 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology, Vessels

    By David Pitt, Naval Architect at Offshore Ship Designers In the wake of the well-documented downturn in the oil and gas markets in recent years, an increasing number of platform supply vessels (PSVs) are currently under-utilized or languishing in lay-up, most notably in the US Gulf Coast region. Various proposals have been made for the repurposing of […]

  • Aker Solutions on Track to Deliver First Johan Sverdrup Draft Report

    26 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Aker Solutions 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 involved 400 employees in […]

  • Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill sets up provisions to strengthen US shipbuilding

    8 July 2025
    Authorities & Government, Vessels

    The United States government has unveiled sweeping investment packages as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) aimed at modernizing its shipbuilding industrial base, reducing reliance on foreign-flagged vessels and revitalizing US manufacturing. Among the provisions that President Donald Trump‘s administration has envisioned under OBBBA, at least nine comprise ‘substantial’ financial packages meant […]

  • Bergeron: CII metrics are not fit for purpose

    6 October 2022
    Authorities & Government, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The IMO’s regulation on the carbon intensity indicator (CII) that enters into force in 2023 has come under a lot of fire in the shipping industry as a regulation that could punish owners with poor vessel ratings on the grounds of factors that they cannot influence upon. The CII is aimed at supporting the International Maritime […]

  • US spurs zest far beyond its borders for CCUS as ‘critical’ decarbonisation tool

    4 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) has become a valuable decarbonisation tool, making further inroads thanks to the IRA.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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

  • Valeura advances multi-well drilling campaign offshore Thailand

    8 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Canada-based oil and gas company Valeura Energy is moving forward with its drilling program offshore Thailand.

  • 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 […]

  • Maersk, MSC and other liner majors suspend Red Sea runs amid escalating attacks

    18 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    Leading liner companies, including industry giants Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, HMM, and OOCL, have suspended trading on their Red Sea trade routes. This decision comes in response to a series of targeted attacks on merchant ships operating in the region, raising alarms within the global shipping community. The Red Sea, a critical maritime route connecting […]

  • UK: Falmouth’s Test Site Gets First Wave Energy Device

    12 April 2012

    The team behind FaB Test, 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 FalmouthBay, with easy access […]

  • 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, […]

  • Wuhu Shipyard earns double green light for novel 18,600 dwt tanker design

    16 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development, Vessels

    China-headquartered shipbuilder Wuhu Shipyard has been awarded approvals in principle (AiP) from two classification societies, Norway’s DNV and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), for its eco-friendly 18,600 dwt chemical tanker. As disclosed, the tanker, which was independently developed by Wuhu Shipyard, is the fourth unit of this vessel type to receive this form of […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Equinor knocks on TechnipFMC’s door for North Sea asset extension

    16 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has selected the UK-headquartered energy technology provider TechnipFMC for work on its project in the Norwegian North Sea.

  • 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 […]