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  • Falck adds to its offshore fire training assets

    27 April 2015
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Falck Safety Services (Falck), has recently enhanced its fire training asset, installing a new three-storey fire rig, located at Aberdeen Airport. The new investment, working in partnership with The Fire Training Group (FTG), will enable Falck to continue to provide offshore workers with fire training courses using modern facilities. According to Falck, this investment will […]

  • Norway: Fire at Huldra Platform Extinguished, Statoil Says

    13 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    At 14.30 today a fire was reported in an air compressor compartment on the Huldra platform in the North Sea, which is situated west of Mongstad. The fire was extinguished at 14.50., Statil announced on its website. None of the 19 persons on board the platform were injured in the incident. Huldra has been developed […]

  • USA: Fired Construction Manager Asks for Second Chance

    19 April 2011

    Terminated from his role as construction manager on the Hernando dredge project, Greg Jarque is now asking county commissioners to…   By MICHAEL D. BATES (hernandotoday) [mappress] Source: hernandotoday, April 19, 2011  

  • Offshore oil platform catches fire in Gulf of Mexico

    25 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    An oil platform located in the Gulf of Mexico, 32 kilometers offshore Louisiana, caught fire on Friday, May 22, 2015.  Watchstanders at Coast Guard (CG) Sector New Orleans received a report at 2:50 a.m. from the offshore supply vessel Miss Katherine reporting a fire on board an oil production platform in Breton Sound Block 21. […]

  • NGO Shipbreaking Platform Slams Owners for Gadani Shipbreaking Fires

    19 October 2018

    The two tanker fires from last week resulted in a ban on all shipbreaking activities in Gadani.

  • Maersk Elba loses power after fire off Portugal

    28 December 2020
    Infrastructure, Safety, Vessels

    A Denmark-flagged containership lost power due to a fire in the engine room off the coast of Portugal on 26 December, Portuguese National Maritime Authority (AMN) said.

  • Wärtsilä delivers gas-fired power plants to Centrica

    9 October 2018

    Finnish technology group Wärtsilä handed over two gas-fired power plants to the British energy and services company Centrica.

  • Fire Breaks Out on Board Greek Ferry, Passengers Evacuated

    29 August 2018

    A ferry carrying more than 1,000 people on board caught fire while it was en route to Chania on August 29.

  • Tank Fire near Mumbai Port Disrupts Vessel Traffic

    9 October 2017

    A massive fire at an oil tank at Jawahar Dweep oil terminal, which started in the evening hours on October 6, has been disrupting vessel traffic at India’s port of Mumbai. According to GAC India, the fire at the oil terminal’s tank started due to a lightning strike. Cargo operations at Jawahar Dweep were suspended […]

  • Container Vessel MSC Flaminia on Fire in Mid Atlantic

    16 July 2012
    Business & Finance

      MCA reports, Saturday (July 14 201), that the crew on board a container vessel were forced to abandon their ship after an explosion and subsequent fire in a cargo hold mid Atlantic. Crew on board a container vessel were forced to abandon their ship after an explosion and subsequent fire in a cargo hold […]

  • USA: Explosion Causes Fire at Plymouth LNG Facility

    1 April 2014

    Williams Partners said that an explosion and fire occurred on Monday at the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Plymouth, Washington. The facility is owned by Williams Partners’ subsidiary Northwest Pipeline. The facility was shut down yesterday morning. One employee was injured and four others were assessed by medical personnel and then released, the […]

  • USNS Rappahannock Fires After Vessel Ignores Warnings

    17 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    An embarked security team aboard a U.S. Navy vessel fired upon a small motor vessel after it disregarded warnings and rapidly approached the U.S. ship near Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates yesterday. In accordance with Navy force protection procedures, the sailors on the USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) used a series of non-lethal, preplanned responses to […]

  • MODEC: Pieces of Shell’s Brazil-bound FPSO puzzle continue to slide into place

    6 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Japan’s MODEC is making headway in the construction of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit destined for a field offshore Brazil, operated by the Brazilian subsidiary of the U.K.-headquartered energy giant Shell.

  • Fire-Stricken Yantian Express to Leave Freeport by Early May

    16 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Hapag-Lloyd: Fire-stricken Yantian Express to depart Freeport at the end of April/early May 2019.

  • Fire Broke Out on Ro-Ro Vessel CORONA SEAWAYS

    4 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    At around 02.30 this morning, 4 December 2013, a fire broke out on the ro-ro vessel CORONA SEAWAYS, while the vessel was en route from Frederica to Copenhagen. Fortunately, there has been no report of any casualties. There were 19 crew members on board as well as 10 passengers. Everyone has been examined for smoke […]

  • USA: Transocean’s Rig Deepwater Horizon Caught by Fire

    22 April 2010

    Transocean Ltd. today reported a fire onboard its semisubmersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. The incident occurred April 20, 2010 at approximately 10:00 p.m. central time in the United States Gulf of Mexico. The rig was located approximately 41 miles offshore Louisiana on Mississippi Canyon block 252. Transocean’s Emergency and Family Response Teams are working with […]

  • Four evacuated after offshore vessel catches fire

    2 December 2014

    The Coast Guard evacuated four people from a vessel which caught fire 35 miles southwest of Grand Isle, Louisiana, Monday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received the report from the offshore supply vessel Dustin Santos at 7a.m., of a vessel fire and four people in a life raft. The Dustin Santos recovered the four […]

  • EIA: gas-fired generation growth reasons vary by region

    18 August 2014

    EIA projects that natural gas-fired electric power sector generation in the contiguous United States will increase to 1,600 million megawatt hours (MWh) by 2040, a 1.3% average annual increase. This growth is spread throughout the Lower 48 states, and the reasons for the growth vary by region. For the United States, increasing natural gas supply […]

  • Germany: Fire Broke Out Onboard Newbuild Cruise Ship

    6 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Yesterday a fire leading to significant smoke formation broke out on a newbuild cruise ship Norwegian Getaway in the covered building dock II. 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 centre were evacuated. […]

  • Congressman Strongly Supports Fire Island to Moriches Inlet Project

    12 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Congressman Tim Bishop released the following statement regarding the announcement that the Army Corps of Engineers, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Suffolk County have signed agreements for the Fire Island to Moriches Inlet project: “I, along with Senator Schumer, have remained committed to working together with the federal, state and local […]

  • Vietnamese oil platform undergoing decommissioning catches fire (Video)

    22 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    A fire has broken out at a platform offshore Vietnam operated by Vietnam Oil and Gas Operating Company (PVEP POC).

  • One Dead After Tanker Catches Fire at Hamriyah Port

    15 May 2017

    One crewman died and four were injured when a tanker carrying oil products caught fire at Hamriyah Port, Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sharjah Civil Defense said. The tanker, identified as the 1991-built Ebrahim 1, caught fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 13. The four injured crewmen were transferred to a local hospital […]

  • Pirates Fire Upon LPG Tanker off Congo

    31 October 2018

    Pirates in a speed boat chased and fired upon an LPG tanker.

  • Two Workers Die Following Tanker Fire in Chittagong

    18 February 2019

    A fire in the engine room of a tanker being dismantled on a beach in Bangladesh, claimed the lives of two workers.

  • Hyundai Heavy develops AI-based fire monitoring system

    23 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Innovation, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Technology

    Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based safety management/monitoring system (HiCAMS) and obtained classification and flag approval-in-principal (AIP) for the first time in the shipbuilding industry.