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  • Qatar Petroleum organizes fire and safety research forum

    7 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Qatar Petroleum’s Industrial Cities Directorate recently organized a meeting of the LASTFIRE Group, which was hosted at Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College. The venue provided a fitting setting for the delegates of the international oil & gas industry who discussed the results of recent studies and research on fire safety. The LASTFIRE Group comprises […]

  • 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 […]

  • Cargo Vessel Suffers Explosion, Fire off Kolkata

    14 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    The 13,814 dwt general cargo vessel SSL Kolkata ignited on June 13 due to an explosion on the vessel’s deck.

  • TransCanada acquires Ironwood gas-fired power plant

    8 October 2015

    TransCanada Corporation said that it has reached an agreement to acquire the Ironwood natural gas-fired, combined cycle power plant in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with a nameplate capacity of 778 megawatts, from Talen Energy Corporation for US$654 million.

  • Fire-Stricken Olga Maersk to Miss Repair Deadline

    18 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    The repair period of Olga Maersk will be extended until February 23, 2019.

  • Fire on research vessel put out; probe begins

    12 August 2006

    A fire in a research vessel off the Louisiana coast was extinguished Saturday, a day after the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 40 people from the ship. The fire was out at 1:20 p.m., and the safety zone around the 175-foot Odyssey Voyager was canceled about an hour later, Petty Officer Susan Blake said. The Coast […]

  • IMB: Pirates Fire at Tanker, Bulker off Nigeria

    28 January 2019

    Armed pirates attempted to attack two ships in two separate incidents off Nigeria last week, IMB said.

  • 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 […]

  • TSB Calls for International Review of Fire Protection Standards

    22 April 2005

    The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) today releases its final report (M02W0135) into the investigation of a switchboard fire aboard the Statendam in the waters of the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. On August 4, 2002, the passenger vessel Statendam embarked passengers in Vancouver, British Columbia, for a one-week return-cruise to Alaska, United States.

  • Engine Fire Leaves Flinter America Drifting off Alderney

    22 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    The 2010-built general cargo ship Flinter America was left powerless off the island of Alderney, Channel Islands, yesterday as its engine broke down due to a fire, according to the Maritime Operations Center CROSS Jobourg. Flinter America crew reported smoke coming out of the engine room, which was followed by a fire. The twelve-member crew requested for assistance but managed to […]

  • NTSB: Poor Maintenance Practices Led to Caribbean Fantasy Fire

    7 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Poor safety culture and maintenance practices led to the 2016 fire aboard the RoRo vessel Caribbean Fantasy.

  • 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.

  • Survey vessel Fugro Symphony catches fire, spurs evacuation

    20 May 2015

    A survey vessel with more than 80 people on board reportedly caught fire early this morning in Peterhead Harbour in the UK.  According to BBC, 84 people were evacuated after fire broke out on Fugro Symphony. It took 35 firefighters to fight the blaze which was brought under control two hours later. No injuries were reported. BBC further reports […]

  • 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. […]

  • Update: Storage Tank Fire near Port of Santos Rages On

    6 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Over a hundred of firefighters are battling to contain the fire that broke out on Thursday, April 2nd at Latin America’s largest fuel tank storage facility run by Ultracargo located near the port of Santos, Brazil. Three fuel tanks out of six initially hit by the blaze were still burning on Sunday, Reuters said citing the fire department and […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Fishing Boat on Fire Off Canterbury Coast (New Zealand)

    12 September 2012

      A 64 metre fishing boat, the Amaltal Columbia, with 43 people on board, is on fire 45 nautical miles (85km) north-east of Lyttelton Heads. The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) received an urgency call from the vessel at 5.24am this morning alerting them to the fire – this was elevated to a mayday […]

  • Crew Member Injured in Finlandia Seaways Engine Room Fire

    17 April 2018

    Crew member airlifted from Finlandia Seaways after engine room fire.

  • 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 […]

  • USA: Emergency Crews to Set Oil Slick on Fire

    29 April 2010

    Emergency teams launched a “controlled burn” operation on Wednesday to stop a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico from washing up on Louisiana’s ecologically fragile coast. A fleet of skimming vessels deployed by the US Coast Guard and British energy giant BP were sweeping the most dense concentrations of crude into a 500-foot […]

  • 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 […]

  • Navios Bulk Carrier Catches Fire at UK’s Immingham Dock

    18 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    A bulk carrier with 19 crew on board suffered a fire while it was moored at Immingham Docks, UK in the afternoon hours of April 16, according to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The vessel in question is the 76,602 dwt Navios Orbiter, owned by shipping company Navios Maritime Partners, according to AIS data provided by […]