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  • US firm to deliver 391 MW floating solar for Texas project

    17 September 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Houston-based clean energy company, Diligence Offshore Services, has entered into a partnership with U.S.-based floating solar manufacturer AccuSolar to develop the Pleasure Island Power Collective in Texas. The project, located across 2,275 acres on Pleasure Island and Sabine Lake near Port Arthur, combines renewable energy generation with a data center. According to AccuSolar, the project […]

  • Boskalis vessel carrying Congo-bound floating production unit to Angola

    29 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Vessels

    Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis is using one of its semi-submersible heavy-lift and transportation vessels to move a recently converted floating production unit (FPU) to Angola.

  • Harbour Energy obtains go-ahead for North Sea drilling ops with Transocean rig

    2 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Harbour Energy has secured a permit to spud a wildcat well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which will be done with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean.

  • Consolidation continues across oil & gas realm as Sintana makes a play for Challenger

    9 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Canada-headquartered oil and natural gas exploration player Sintana Energy has put the wheels in motion to spread its wings to Uruguay’s oil and gas arena by bringing into its fold Challenger Energy Group (CEG), the Isle of Man-headquartered oil and gas company.

  • Saipem reinforces Guyana ties with $500 million job on ExxonMobil’s seventh oil project

    26 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem has received the green light to move forward with its multimillion-dollar assignment on an offshore oil project in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana from ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered ExxonMobil.

  • Shell-FOCOL JV books Nikkiso for its LNG-to-power project in Bahamas

    20 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (Nikkiso CE&IG), an affiliate of Japan’s Nikkiso, has been hired by New Providence Gas (NPG), a joint venture (JV) to be formed by Shell and a subsidiary of FOCOL Holdings, to provide a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification and cryogenic equipment for an LNG-to-power project in Nassau, the Bahamas.

  • LNG-powered cruise ship Disney Destiny joins owner’s roster

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    German shipbuilder Meyer Werft has handed over the third cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Disney Cruise Line. As disclosed, the delivery ceremony for the 340-meter-long vessel, named Disney Destiny, was held on schedule, i.e., on October 15 in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. Disney Destiny is reportedly the seventh unit of its type […]

  • BP unlocking more US oil & gas with go-ahead for $5 billion Gulf of America project

    29 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    BP has decided to move forward with its second production platform in the Gulf of America (the U.S. Gulf of Mexico) in less than two years to augment its upstream business by making a final investment decision (FID) for one of the eight to ten major projects expected to start up globally between 2028 and 2030.

  • No Fire on ‘Beaumaris Bay’

    4 November 2015

    Following the news about fire breaking out on one of the WFSVs at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, Offshore WIND communicated with both the German Maritime Search and Rescue Association (DGzRS), which received the distress call, and Turbine Transfers, the vessel’s operator.  Turbine Transfers contacted Offshore WIND to report that there had not been a […]

  • FSO fire claims four lives, injures five in Indonesia

    26 June 2025
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Four workers have lost their lives in a fire at an oil tanker undergoing repair works at a shipyard in Indonesia.

  • Port of Antwerp Hit by Fire

    13 August 2018

    Fire erupts at nickel ore warehouse at Port of Antwerp, Belgium.

  • Fire Aboard USS Nimitz

    14 June 2013

      A fire occurred aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the ship’s electrical equipment while the ship was underway in the Indian Ocean within U.S. 7th Fleet’s operating area June 7. No Sailors were injured during the event or the response, and the ship and embarked air wing remain operable and in […]

  • Fire aboard Freedom of the Seas

    23 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out in a mechanical space on board Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Freedom of the Seas on Wednesday, as it was about to enter Falmouth, Jamaica. As informed, the fire was contained and  extinguished shortly after and one crew member was treated for a first-degree burn, Royal Caribbean said. “All guests onboard Freedom of the […]

  • New Sand for Fire Island

    29 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has announced a joint state-federal effort to address coastal erosion and improve coastal resilience on Fire Island in the Town of Islip. “This project will strengthen Fire Island’s natural defense to protect its coastline and keep residents safer and better prepared for the next extreme weather event,” Governor Cuomo said. Suffolk […]

  • Report: Five hurt in Socar platform fire

    23 October 2014

    A fire broke out today on a Socar-operated platform in the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan, Trend news agency has reported. According to the Azeri news agency, twelve crewmembers fell into the sea and a vessel by the Ministry of Emergency Situations is working to recover them. Trend further said that five people were injured and were […]

  • Fire shuts Troll B

    3 September 2014

    A fire broke out aboard the Statoil-operated Troll B platform, offshore Norway, on Monday, September 1. According to the Norwegian news website Aftenbladet.no, smoke entered the room after a switch on a platform in the North Sea caught fire. Production was immediately shut. The Stavanger-based website quoted a Statoil spokesperson who said that no injuries […]

  • Five Dead in Fire at Gadani Shipbreaking Yard

    9 January 2017

    At least five workers lost their lives and three to eight were reported missing after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier ignited at Pakistan’s Gadani shipbreaking yard, according to NGO Shipbreaking Platform. The LPG carrier reportedly caught fire due to the presence of foam inside the ship, Dawn news reports. This was the same vessel which suffered a fire […]

  • Cosco Boxship Hit by a Fire

    7 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on board Cosco Pacific, off Indian coast.

  • Four EU countries and Egypt make up top five US LNG importers

    29 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Within the global gas story, many chapters are being written, including a U.S. wave of upcoming liquefied natural gas (LNG) developments, where the export boom continues to fuel new projects, as the European regasification build-out continues.

  • AIDAprima Hit by Fire in Shipyard

    12 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    A small fire broke out in the rear part of the newbuild AIDAprima cruise ship, owned by cruise line company AIDA Cruises, in the evening hours of January 11, the cruise liner has confirmed in a statement to World Maritime News. AIDA Cruises said that the fire on board the vessel, being built at Mitsubishi Yard in Nagasaki, […]

  • Fire damages destroyer at Ingalls

    24 May 2006

    A fire aboard a destroyer being built at a Mississippi shipyard could further delay completion of the ship, which was damaged last August by Hurricane Katrina. The fire broke out on the morning of May 20 aboard the destroyer Truxtun at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems

  • In a high-stakes trade match, China moves its queen — US ships face port tariffs

    10 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Rules & Regulation

    Beijing is set to levy steep port service fees on United States (U.S.)-owned, -operated and -built vessels as well as American shipowners, following Washington’s measures targeting China’s maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors. As disclosed by the Chinese Ministry of Transport, starting from October 14, 2025, additional port fees will be imposed in accordance with the […]

  • Egypt: Offshore rig on fire

    23 March 2015

    A fire broke out on an offshore platform in Egypt today, spurring a crew evacuation, Aswat Masriya, an Egyptian news website has reported. The news website, citing sources in the country’s petroleum ministry, has said that the fire has been localized and isolated from the rest of the rig. The fire reportedly broke out in the engine […]

  • Fire aboard Freedom of the Seas

    23 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out in a mechanical space on board Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Freedom of the Seas on Wednesday, as it was about to enter Falmouth, Jamaica. As informed, the fire was contained and  extinguished shortly after and one crew member was treated for a first-degree burn, Royal Caribbean said. “All guests onboard Freedom of the […]

  • USCG Investigating Insignia Fire

    14 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard assembled a joint investigative team with the National Transportation Safety Board and is sending four marine safety professionals from Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Cruise Ship and Investigation National Centers of Expertise, to investigate Thursday’s fire on the cruise ship Insignia in St. Lucia that claimed three […]