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  • Lloyd’s Register updates guidance on fuel cell installation on ships

    7 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Green Marine, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Technology, Vessels

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) has released updated guidance on the installation of fuel cells on ships.

  • China: SF Shipyard Conducts Fire-Fighting Drill

    25 October 2011

    Aimed to raise the fire-fighting awareness of all the security guards, improve their ability in organizing & handling fire suppression job on board, Security Section of SF shipyard arranged a fire-fighting drill. To make sure that vessel fire is suppressed rapidly and effectively so as to reduce the property loss. 50-m fire-suppression competition, stretcher first-aid […]

  • TGS, BGP, Staatsolie embark on seismic survey to map oil & gas deposits in shallow waters

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Research & Development

    Norwegian/American energy data and intelligence player, Tomlinson Geophysical Services (TGS), has kicked off a seismic survey in the shallow offshore area off the coast of Saramacca and Coronie to find oil and gas reserves as part of a joint project with Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the Chinese Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting (BGP Offshore). 

  • PSA wraps up Hammerfest LNG fire investigation

    22 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority said it has concluded a lengthy investigation into the fire accident at Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG facility.

  • USA: Fire Island Inlet Dredging Project (VIDEO)

    15 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced recently that a $15 million Army contract has been awarded for emergency dredging and beach nourishment for the Fire Island Inlet and Shore Westerly to Jones Inlet. Schumer and Gillibrand successfully secured approval from the Army Corps to begin this multi-purpose project which will provide much-needed […]

  • Fire on Board MT Stolt Valor Contained (Qatar)

    21 March 2012
    Business & Finance

      Stolt Tankers B.V., a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen Limited and owner and operator of MT Stolt Valor, reported today that the fire on the ship has been contained. One crew member is still missing. The ship is under tow approximately 45 miles off the coast of Qatar. There has been no spillage of fuel oil […]

  • Seven Hurt, Three Critical in Gadani Tanker Fire

    15 October 2018

    Seven people injured, three in critical condition after an oil tanker caught fire in Gadani.

  • Fire Erupts Onboard Car Carrier in the Gulf of Mexico

    17 January 2017

    A fire broke out onboard a vehicle carrier Alliance St. Louis around 150 miles south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana, on January 16, 2017, the US Coast Guard (USCG) informed.  An electrical fire occurred in the engine room of the 2005-built ship, according to the USCG. The USCG said it launched an HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew […]

  • Suncor puts out fire on Terra Nova FPSO

    1 June 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    A fire on board Suncor Energy’s Terra Nova FPSO, located offshore Canada, was reported to the Canadian offshore regulator on Saturday.

  • Fire breaks out on Socar’s Caspian Sea platform

    27 September 2016

    A fire broke out on Monday afternoon aboard an offshore platform in the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan. According to Reuters, the fire was extinguished on Tuesday. The country’s ministry of emergency situations, the incident happened on a platform in the Gunashli field after a gas leak during repair work at one of the wells. Sixty-nine […]

  • Fire-Stricken Grande America Sinks off France

    13 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    Grande America sank in the afternoon hours of March 12 some 180 nautical miles west of the French coast.

  • Denmark: Fire Protection of Sprinkler Pipes on Passenger Vessels

    1 July 2011
    Business & Finance

      In order to fulfil the new amendment to SOLAS regulation about protection of sprinkler pipes on passenger vessels, Rockwool Marine and Offshore introduces a new Pipe Section called Rockwool Marine Firebatts 100 PS. The new amendment to SOLAS regulation Safe Return To Port is applicable to all passenger ships built on or after 1st […]

  • RenewableUK Applauds Wind Turbine Fire Protection Study

    18 July 2014
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    RenewableUK has responded to research into fire protection, entitled “Overview of Problems and Solutions in Fire Protection Engineering of Wind Turbines”. The report aims to look into incidences of fire within wind turbines, highlighting that the main cause is lightning strikes.The authors have therefore chosen to draw their conclusions from data reported in newspapers and on […]

  • Fire Breaks Out at Vestas’ Turbine Blade Facility

    3 October 2015

    A chemical store that is part of Vestas’ facility for the development of large wind turbine blades on Isle of Wight caught fire today afternoon. After receiving a call around 3 pm, three firefighting crews have been working on containing the blaze using a breathing apparatus and a hose, the local media reported. Vestas’ Isle of Wight […]

  • BP and Altera investigating fire incident on Foinaven FPSO

    5 April 2022
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Safety, Vessels

    Non-essential workers on an FPSO vessel located on BP’s Foinaven field off the UK have been evacuated following a fire incident.

  • USA: Investigation on ‘Carnival Triumph’ Engine Fire Launched

    13 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation Tuesday into the circumstances surrounding a fire aboard the Carnival Triumph, that ocurred Sunday. The Carnival Triumph experienced an engine room fire while on a four-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, and has been without propulsion in the Gulf of Mexico […]

  • Fire crews feel way through smoke in ship

    25 January 2007

    Thick black smoke belched from a lake freighter that caught fire in Hamilton harbour while crews were working on it yesterday morning. No one was hurt as firefighters struggled to douse the blaze below decks in the ship. District fire chief Brian Stark said the fire broke out at 10:45 a.m. inside the Algoville while […]

  • Fire breaks out on Shell facility in North Sea

    28 November 2007

    A small fire broke out on Shell’s North Cormorant platform in the early hours of today. It was quickly extinguished and there was no need for any of the 106 staff onboard to be evacuated from the North Sea facility.

  • Fire Catches GoM Platform. Two Workers Missing

    18 November 2012

     Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC confirmed that a fire ignited Friday morning on the company’s platform located at West Delta 32 Block, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico approximately 17 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. There were 22 workers on the platform at the time of the incident. Two workers went missing. Nine workers […]

  • Fire-Stricken Regina Seaways Reaches Klaipeda Port

    3 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    Fire-stricken Regina Seaways safely reached Klaipėda Seaport in the evening hours of October 2.

  • Lloyd’s Register issues guidance on offshore fire scenarios

    25 August 2014
    Equipment

    Offshore fire risk requires a deep understanding and improved safety management on offshore vessels and installations, and ocean-going vessels. The new Lloyd’s Register Energy Guidance Notes, launched today at ONS 2014, assist designers, owners and operators of oil and gas equipment on how to assess fire loadings on an installation, and how to protect people […]

  • Vessel Fire Claims Six Casualties in Durban Port

    15 February 2019

    SAMSA: Six people have lost their lives in a vessel fire at the Port of Durban.

  • One Dead, Five Injured in Fire aboard Product Tanker off Shanghai

    4 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    One person died and five were seriously injured when a product tanker carrying 29,000 tons of diesel oil caught fire off Shanghai yesterday afternoon, according to local media. The 2009-built Ye Chi was carrying the oil from Jinshan to Singapore when the fire erupted, reportedly starting in the crew’s living quarters. Shanghai Search and Rescue Center […]

  • Mexico: Abkatun platform fire out. No oil spill

    2 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Pemex has informed that the fire that broke out on an Abkatun Alpha platform yesterday has been extinguished.  Offshore Energy Today yesterday reported that Pemex-operated Abkatun Alpha platform located in the Bay of Campeche caught fire spurring evacuation of 301 workers. Sadly, four workers have died as a result of the incident; one was identified […]

  • VIDEO: Fire Island Inlet Dredging Underway (USA)

    16 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, recently announced the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for the Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet Stabilization Project and the opening of the window for the public to submit written comments regarding it. The proposed Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet project calls for […]