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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Wärtsilä to deliver gas-fired power plant to Myanmar

    2 July 2018

    Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to provide the generating equipment for a new gas-fired power plant needed to alleviate the shortage of electricity in Myanmar.

  • Siemens Develops System to Fight Fires in Wind Turbines

    17 February 2014
    Technology

    Siemens has developed an automatic fire detection and extinguishing system for offshore wind turbines. The first of these systems was recently installed at the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the North Sea. A fire in a wind turbine can quickly turn dangerous for people and the environment, particularly if the nacelle or rotors catch fire, […]

  • Siemens Develops System to Fight Fires in Wind Turbines

    17 February 2014
    Technology

    Siemens has developed an automatic fire detection and extinguishing system for offshore wind turbines. The first of these systems was recently installed at the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the North Sea. A fire in a wind turbine can quickly turn dangerous for people and the environment, particularly if the nacelle or rotors catch fire, […]

  • PipeChina stops Beihai LNG terminal construction after fire kills five

    3 November 2020
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    State-owned China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network (PipeChina) has suspended construction work at the second phase of its Beihai liquefied natural gas terminal in southern China after a fire that killed five people.

  • Fire at Shell Platform in GoM Leaves Two Injured

    9 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    Shell has informed that a fire broke out at its Enchilada platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. The fire is associated with a 30-inch gas export pipeline, the company said. Following the incident Shell evacuated all 46 personnel working on the platform, of which two were injured. A 54-year-old male suffered from flash burns […]

  • Fire Breaks Out on LPG Carrier Off Thailand

    8 October 2012

    A fire broke out aboard a rust-covered 80-meter long liquid petroleum gas (LPG) carrier Kantika on Sunday morning at about 8.30am offshore Phuket, Thailand, the Phuket News reports. The Thai-registered ship, owned by Ayudhya Public Co, had fortunately unloaded its cargo prior to the incident. “I was working in the aft engine room. I smelled […]

  • Fire-hit oil tanker released by Malaysia authorities

    2 May 2006

    A supertanker which was held by Malaysian authorities following a flash fire that killed four people has been released on Tuesday, the ship’s Singapore-based manager BW Shipping Managers Pte. Ltd. said. The 280,000-tonne Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Suva, which was on its way to the Middle East when the incident occurred on Sunday, was […]

  • Fire triggers alarm on Statoil’s platform in Norwegian Sea

    19 September 2016

    A fire alarm was activated on Sunday on board Statoil’s Åsgard B platform offshore Norway. Statoil-operated Åsgard field is located on the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea, around 200 kilometers off mid-Norway and 50 kilometers south of the Heidrun field. The entire Åsgard field development embraces a total of 63 production and injection wells drilled through […]

  • VIDEO: Fire Island Inlet Dredging Program (USA)

    13 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    The big dredge has pipeline laid from the Democrat Point side of Fire Island Inlet onto the north side beaches and then running down to Babylon town beaches. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. There are plenty of floating pipes and work buoys associated with this worksite. The […]

  • Fire hits Navy ship in Boston dry dock

    10 August 2007

    Firefighters battled through smoke and heat to quench a blaze early this morning in the bowels of a Navy ship in dry dock on South Boston’s waterfront. The fire in the steering gear room of the Sisler, a cargo ship, was reported just before 3 a.m., said fire department spokesman Steve MacDonald.

  • Livestock Carrier Catches Fire in Australia’s Port of Portland

    4 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    A livestock carrier caught fire Tuesday evening while docked at the Port of Portland in Victoria, Australia, according to the local Country Fire Authority (CFA). The livestock carrier, identified as the Panama-flagged Awassi Express, was not carrying any livestock at the time of the incident. CFA was called to the port around 8 p.m. local […]

  • Update: fire hits Prelude FLNG construction site

    8 July 2016
    Vessels

    Small fire at the Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in South Korea interrupted work at Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility leaving two workers in need of medical attention.

  • Fire Breaks Out on Board Greek-Flagged Ferry

    2 December 2014

    A fire broke out on board Greek-flagged ro-pax Ierapetra L on Saturday evening, November 29 while the vessel was heading for drydock  in Igoumenitsa for maintenance. The fire started in the vessel’s engine room, but was extinguished shortly after by the ship’s crew comprising of 23 members, Italian news site Brindisi Report writes. The ferry returned to port […]

  • Fire Threatens on Seismic Vessel Off Norwegian Coast

    10 October 2011
    Business & Finance

      Emergency crews scrambled Sunday night after fire broke out in the accommodation section of a Russian seismic vessel 70 nautical miles… (newsinenglish) [mappress] Source: newsinenglish, October 10 , 2011    

  • Engine-Room Fire aboard Carnival Liberty, No Injuries

    8 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out aboard the Carnival Liberty, a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line, on Monday while the ship was in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The cruise ship was carrying 3,346 passengers and 1,150 crew; however, as informed by the U.S. Coast Guard there were no injuries reported. At approximately 11:45 a.m. […]

  • Fire breaks out at Prelude FLNG construction site

    8 July 2016
    Infrastructure

    A fire outbreak incident struck a construction site of Shell’s Prelude – the world’s largest floating LNG facility, being built in South Korea. In a statement to Offshore Energy Today, a Shell spokesman said: “Shell can confirm there was an incident on the Prelude construction site last week that led to a small fire. Emergency response processes […]

  • Petrobras’ platform back online after leak, fire.

    1 August 2014

    A fire broke out Wednesday morning on a Petrobras-run oil production platform, off the coast of Brazil. According to the Brazilian oil workers union Sindipetro NF, the incident happened on the PNA-1 platform, in the Campos basin on July 30 around 11 a.m., during a welding work on the platform, located in the Namorado offshore […]

  • Fire Safety Onboard Ships Still Serious Concern

    5 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Recent events have demonstrated that a fire onboard a ship can be potentially devastating and can seriously affect the safety of those on board. Preliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Fire Safety Systems, carried out between 1 September 2012 and 30 November 2012 in the Paris MoU region show that: 103 ships […]

  • Cruise ship towed ashore as 700 escape fire

    7 May 2006

    A cruise ship with more than 700 people on board was towed ashore last night after a fire in an engine room left it adrift in the English Channel. Hundreds of passengers were roused in their cabins when fire broke out early yesterday morning, only hours after the Calypso sailed from Tilbury, Essex, on its […]

  • RoPax Ferry Catches Fire off Isle of Wight

    19 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    A car and passenger ferry operating between UK mainland and the Isle of Wight caught fire in the morning hours of Thursday, January 19, the UK Coastguard reports. At about 9.30 am local time Thursday the St Faith car ferry operated by WightLink contacted the UK Coastguard reporting a fire on their bridge wing port side. When […]

  • Meyer Werft: Norwegian Getaway Catches Fire (Germany)

    6 March 2013

    A fire leading to significant smoke formation broke out on a ship newbuilding Norwegian Getaway in the covered building dock II in Meyer Werft yesterday, March 5. At present the shipyard’s fire brigade and members of the Papenburg fire department are still in operation on the yard premises. The affected production areas and the shipyard’s visitors […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tanker Fire at Gadani Shipbreaking Yard Still Active

    3 November 2016

    The fire is still ongoing at the Gadani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan following a series of explosions aboard an oil tanker on November 1, according to IndustriALL global union. The union added that up to 150 workers are still trapped inside the 1995-built tanker Aces, which supposedly ignited due to gas wielding processes undertaken during the dismantling […]