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  • Yemen LNG’s Balhaf Plant again under fire

    19 December 2014

    Yemen LNG confirmed  two explosions offshore and onshore outside the Balhaf Plant, coming from two rocket-launched explosive devices on Thursday, December 19, at around 7 pm local time. The company reported no casualties or damage, with the Balhaf Plant remaining in operation. Yemen LNG reinforced security measures in order to ensure vigilant surveillance of the plant […]

  • ADNOC’s XRG enters US LNG scene with stake in Lone Star State’s $18.4B project

    25 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    XRG, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has wrapped up its acquisition of an interest in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Texas, United States (U.S.).

  • Temperature Rise, Forest Fires Ash Cause Greenland’s Melting

    22 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Researchers at Dartmouth College and the Desert Research Institute, funded by the National Science Foundation of the United States (NSF), have found that a combination of rising temperatures and ash from Northern Hemisphere forest fires caused the large-scale surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in 1889 and 2012. The findings also suggest that continued […]

  • Update: Fire-stricken Maersk Elba en route to Algeciras

    30 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Safety, Vessels

    Maersk Elbe, a Neopanamax containership that suffered engine failure off Portugal after a fire onboard on 26 December, is now being towed to the Port of Algeciras.

  • Norwegian safety watchdog to probe Scarabeo 5 rig fire

    24 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has launched an investigation into a fire which broke out in an engine room on the Scarabeo 5 drilling rig on November 22, 2016. The rig is working on the Statoil-operated Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. There were 106 persons on board when the […]

  • Investigation into West Phoenix rig fire reveals safety breaches

    4 March 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has found several breaches of the regulations following an investigation into a fire on the West Phoenix rig last year. 

  • Mexico: Oil platform on fire. Four dead, 300 evacuated

    1 April 2015

    A fire broke out Wednesday on a Pemex-operated oil platform in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico. According to Pemex, one worker died while 300 were evacuated to nearby platforms, after the Abkatun Alpha platform caught fire. The national oil company said the fire broke out in the dewatering and pumping area of the platform, without […]

  • Maersk Line’s Boxship on Fire after Collision off China

    9 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out aboard the Safmarine Meru containership after it collided with a German-owned container vessel Northen Jasper some 120 nautical miles East of Ningbo. Shortly after, a crew of 22 people were evacuated from the Maersk Line-owned Safmarine Meru as it suffered severe damage, according to the owner of the vessel. The collision occurred in the evening hours […]

  • South Korea: Two Workers Killed in Fire at HHI Shipyard

    22 April 2014

    A fire broke out yesterday at the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, killing two people and injuring two more who were working on the dock, according to local media reports. The fire started at 4:04 p.m. at HHI’s No. 5 dock which is used to construct liquefied petroleum gas carriers. HHI […]

  • SFI’s Fire-Stricken Super Tanker Taken under Tow

    7 August 2018

    Front Hakata, which was adrift following an engine fire, has been taken under tow.

  • Fire-Stricken Maersk Honam Berths, Starts Discharging Cargo

    29 May 2018
    Business & Finance

    Maersk Honam, which suffered a serious fire on March 6, berthed at Jebel Ali port on Sunday, May 27.

  • Officials Urge Corps to Expedite Fire Island Project (USA)

    23 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Tim Bishop urged the Army Corps of Engineers to immediately approve and begin work on emergency stabilization projects at Fire Island dunes and downtown Montauk for hurricane protection, flood control and beach nourishment. The stabilization projects, which are part of the larger New York Fire Island […]

  • Canada: Engine Fire Indicator Forces Cougar to Return to Base

    11 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    C-NLOPB, the regulatory agency for the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area received notification from Suncor Energy that a helicopter owned by Cougar that was en route to the Terra Nova FPSO returned to base and landed safely at approximately 8:10 a.m., January 11, 2012. The helicopter was some 20 miles out from St. John’s when […]

  • Anchored Cargo Ship Catches Fire off Cebu, Philippines

    25 April 2019

    Welding works were cited as a possible cause of fire.

  • Fire breaks out aboard Petrobras FPSO in Santos Basin

    16 January 2018
    Infrastructure

    A fire broke out aboard a Petrobras-operated FPSO early on Tuesday, the Brazilian oil company has informed.

  • UK: Another Wind Farm Support Vessel Catches Fire

    20 January 2014

    A crewman has been airlifted to hospital this morning after a fire on board a wind farm support vessel 4 nautical miles off Great Yarmouth. Humber Coastguard received a call from the vessel Norfolk Tern just after 8am reporting they had a fire in their starboard engine. They had managed to bring it under control, […]

  • UK: Newcastle Gets Training Centre for Offshore Fire Fighters

    3 June 2013

    A brand new £1million, state-of-the-art, offshore training centre was unveiled Thursday, May 30,  at Newcastle International Airport, which will see up to 6,000 offshore workers trained every year in emergency fire fighting. The world-class facility has been developed by Offshore Training Newcastle (OTN) – a unique partnership of three of the North East’s leading training […]

  • Oman: Port of Salalah Extinguishes Fire onboard Fishing Vessel

    29 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Port of Salalah responded to a fire onboard a fishing vessel BAEK YUNG 29 that occurred at approximately 0300 on 28 October, 2013 while berthed at the port. The port authority has responded with all possible assistance in firefighting on both land and sea, via fire trucks and specialized firefighting equipment aboard harbor tug vessels. […]

  • Greek Coast Guard Fires Upon Turkish Cargo Ship

    4 July 2017

    A Turkish general cargo ship has been fired upon by the Greek Coast Guard boat while cruising off the coast of the island of Rhodes. MV Act was on its way from the port of İskenderun to the port of İzmit on Monday, July 3 when the incident occurred, as informed by Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry. There […]

  • Vessel Fire Briefly Halts Traffic in Houston Ship Channel

    6 December 2016

    Vessel traffic resumed in the Houston Ship Channel after it was shortly stopped due to a fire aboard the 19,508 dwt chemical tanker Jo Kiri yesterday, Reuters cited the United States Coast Guard. Houston Ship Channel was closed for an hour after the 2003-built vessel, owned by Jo Tankers AS, reported smoke in its engine room. […]

  • Olga Maersk Suffers Engine Room Fire, Crew Safe

    1 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out in the engine room on board Maersk’s Panamax containership Olga Maersk.

  • Bracks opens fire on rival claim to navy deal

    18 May 2005

    AWARDING the $6 billion navy destroyer project to Adelaide would risk the future of the naval shipbuilding industry in Australia for decades to come, a report commissioned by the Victorian Government has found. Victorian Premier Steve Bracks said yesterday the contract should go to Victoria’s Williamstown shipyard “if Australia is to retain its position as […]

  • MAN commissions Gibraltar’s LNG-fired power plant

    3 July 2019

    MAN Energy Solutions commissioned three 14V51/60 gas and another three dual-fuel engines in the newly constructed power plant in Gibraltar.

  • Neptune Energy fires up Gjøa P1 development

    23 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Operator Neptune Energy and its partners have started production from the Gjøa P1 development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • Noble Energy fires up Gunflint in Gulf of Mexico

    21 July 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Oil and gas exploration company Noble Energy has recently started production at the Gunflint oil development in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.  The Gunflint development, located at Mississippi Canyon Block 948, is a subsea tie-back to the Gulfstar One platform owned by Williams Partners L.P. and Marubeni Corporation. Noble said on Thursday that the two-well field […]