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  • TGS scores first OBN gig for 2026 in European waters

    5 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian energy data and intelligence company TGS has opened the contracting season in Europe for next year with an ocean bottom node (OBN) survey deal.

  • Fire Hits Bulker in Port of Southampton

    28 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Bulker Sirina suffered a fire in its cargo hold while it was at a dock in Port of Southampton on May 25.

  • Update: Maersk Honam Fire Localized

    9 March 2018

    The fire on board Maersk Line’s ultra large containership Maersk Honam has been localized.

  • Fire in Port of Los Angeles Contained

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The raging wharf fire in Wilmington that resulted in shutting down of all container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles has been more than 90 percent contained, the port authorities said in a statement yesterday. The fire broke out after a welding accident on Monday evening, igniting the 800-foot-long wharf. As explained by the […]

  • Gunashli fire: Another body found

    4 January 2016

    Body of another oil worker who went missing after the Gunashli 10 platform explosion in Azerbaijan has been found. According to the Azeri ministry for emergency situations, the dead body was found in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea. This brings a total number of recovered bodies to nine, with twenty-one workers still missing. […]

  • Report: Rig on fire in Gulf of Mexico

    16 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    A semi-submersible drilling rig reportedly caught fire in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Friday, February 13, 2015. According to gCaptain, which was first to report the news, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed the incident had happened on an offshore rig when a fire broke out in the engine room. gCaptain claims that the rig […]

  • Triton FPSO Catches Fire (UK)

    3 December 2013

    A small fire occurred yesterday on board a Dana Petroleum-operated FPSO, moored in the UK North Sea.   In an e-mail sent to Offshore Energy Today, Dana Petroleum confirmed that there was a minor incident on its Triton Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) in the UK North Sea Monday. “Smoke and sparks were seen […]

  • Fishermen rescued after boat fire

    28 April 2007

    Five people on a fishing boat disabled by fire 33 miles off Salcombe on the Devon coast have been rescued. Brixham Coastguard coordinated the rescue of crew members on board the Salcombe crabber Emma Jane.

  • Pirates open fire on cargo ship

    15 May 2007

    Pirates fired grenade launchers and machine guns at a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean far off the coast of Somalia, sparking concerns that key shipping routes are threatened, a Malaysia-based maritime watchdog said Tuesday.

  • Japan whaling ship catches fire

    15 February 2007

    A Japanese whaling ship has caught fire near Antarctica, leaving one crew member missing and raising fears of environmental damage. The blaze on board the Nisshin Maru prompted the evacuation of its crew onto other ships.

  • Ship fire puts heat on industry

    29 March 2006

    Miami-based Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise ship operator, estimated Tuesday that last week’s fire aboard the Star Princess will cost between $33 million and $42 million. That’s what Carnival said it will have to spend to repair the ship and compensate passengers

  • Petrojarl Knarr Fire Contained, No Injuries

    24 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out this morning on board the Petrojarl Knarr Floating Production Storage Offloading Vessel (FPSO) off Floro, Norway. The production has been shut down and there has been no reported impact to the environment, BG Group said in a statement. The incident was reported at approximately 01.45 hours this morning involving in a […]

  • Small fire reported on Tartan A platform

    11 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    The ‘Tartan A’ offshore oil platform in the UK North Sea caught fire on Saturday morning. All workers accounted for.

  • Fire damages port conveyor belt

    24 August 2009

    More than 30 firefighters were called to tackle a fire on a conveyor belt at the Port of Tyne. The fire broke out on a 720ft (200m) section of the belt, which was being used to feed rape seed on to a loading ship on the south side of the river. The flames were extinguished […]

  • Investigation launches into fire at Åsgard B

    21 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a fire that broke out in a transformer at the Åsgard B platform in the Norwegian North Sea. The fire, which was reported in the transformer room on 14 November, was extinguished but produced smoke and led to a production shutdown. There were 118 […]

  • Rescue teams tackling boat fire

    23 June 2007

    Rescue teams from Norfolk and Suffolk are tackling a fire on a tug boat off the north Norfolk coast. Yarmouth Coastguard received a may-day call from the tug boat, ‘HT Blade’, which was on fire on Sunday morning.

  • Engineer killed in FSO fire in Indonesia

    18 September 2014

    A seafarer has been found dead on the FSO Cilacap Permina Samudra 104 vessel, which caught fire Tuesday night.

  • Crew missing in Chile boat fire

    21 April 2007

    At least one man has died and eight are missing after a fire erupted on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, west of Chile. More than 100 crew were evacuated following the fire, which started in the engine room of the fishing trawler.

  • Cruise ship fire report released

    19 April 2007

    Poor fire training and a failure to carry out engine modifications have been highlighted in an accident report into a blaze on a cruise ship. The Calypso was off the coast of Beachy Head, East Sussex, with 708 passengers and staff on board when the fire broke out on 6 May last year.

  • Maersk Kampala Update: Fire Is Out

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The fire-fighting teams aboard the Maersk Kampala have succeeded in putting out the fire aboard the Maersk Kampala. Some smoke continues to come from some of the containers that had caught fire but will stop eventually with continued spraying by the tugs and flooding by the fire-fighting teams. Operational planning is now the priority, including […]

  • Fire Reported on SeaRose FPSO (Canada)

    8 August 2012

    A fire outbreak has been reported onboard the SeaRose FPSO, moored in the Atlantic, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. According to CBC, the fire broke out Tuesday evening in the FPSO’s pump room, but was quickly extinguished. No injuries have been reported so far. Furthermore, CBC reports that Husky Energy, the operator of the FPSO, will now […]

  • Norfolk-based ship fires on pirates

    7 June 2007

    The Norfolk-based amphibious ship Carter Hall fired on pirates off the coast of Somalia as they overtook a Danish cargo ship, a Navy official said Wednesday. The Carter Hall fired several warning shots over the Danish vessel Danica White on Saturday and then destroyed three skiffs used by the pirates, said the Navy official, who […]

  • Fire on Dredger: Two Missing (China)

    21 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Two people are missing after a ship fire off the coast of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday morning, local maritime authorities said. The dredging vessel caught fire around 10 a.m. in sea waters about 5 km from a pier of a local power plant in the city of Beihai, according to the […]

  • 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.

  • Fire Extensively Damages HMAS Bundaberg

    12 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    Australian Navy’s Armidale Class Patrol Boat HMAS Bundaberg has suffered significant damage in a fire yesterday that broke out while the patrol boat was undergoing routine maintenance in a shed at Aluminium Boats Australia (ABA) in Brisbane, according to the Navy’s Chief Vice Admiral Tim Barrett. “I have been advised that HMAS Bundaberg has suffered […]