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  • New Zealand: RCCNZ Continues to Monitor Fishing Boat that Caught Fire

    13 September 2012

      All 43 crew of the 64m New Zealand fishing boat Amaltal Columbia, owned by Talley’s, have abandoned ship and been transferred to two other fishing vessels following a fire on board, approximately 70km north-east of Lyttelton Heads. A total of 39 members of the crew are now safely on board the Russian fishing vessel, […]

  • Alfa Laval’s offshore fire water pump for North Sea platform

    22 November 2017
    Equipment

    Sweden’s Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to an oil platform in the North Sea. The order, valued at 60 million Swedish crowns, comprises offshore fire water pumping systems to an unnamed offshore oil platform in the North Sea. “I am very pleased to announce this large order for our […]

  • High-impact offshore block duo helping unlock Southeast Asia’s deepwater gas potential

    8 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    UK-based and AIM-listed Sunda Energy, formerly Baron Oil, has expanded its offshore footprint by securing a non-operated stake in two offshore petroleum blocks in the Sulu Sea, as part of license awards that are a direct result of the joint applications submitted by the bid group composed of Triangle Energy, Sunda Energy, PXP Energy Corporation, and Philodrill Corporation.

  • DFDS to Close Rosyth – Zeebrugge Route after Ro-Ro Fire

    24 April 2018
    Business & Finance

    DFDS is to close its Rosyth – Zeebrugge route following an engine room fire aboard Finlandia Seaways.

  • Update: Fire on Maersk Line’s Boxship Under Control, Ship Stable

    10 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    The fire on board Maersk Line’s Safmarine Meru containership is under control, with external firefighting operations concluded, Maersk Line said in an update. The fire broke out after Safmarine Meru collided with a German-owned container vessel Northen Jasper some 120 nautical miles East of Ningbo on May 7, 2016 while the 2006-built boxship was en route from Qingdao to Ningbo in China. As […]

  • CIC Campaign Highlights Need for Continued Commitment to Fire Safety Onboard

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wilhelmsen Ships Solutions (WSS) Business Manager for Safety Dave Evans says that preliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Fire Safety Systems underline the need for shipowners to continue to be vigilant with regards to safety practices onboard. Evans says: “I am personally very pleased to see that the industry is starting to […]

  • DEME: Fire-Stricken Living Stone Sustained Minor Damage. Works Resumed

    16 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    DEME: Living Stone sustained minor damage in yesterday’s fire.

  • Grimaldi RoRo Catches Fire after Being Hit by Truck in Brazil

    10 April 2019

    This is the second incident involving Grimaldi vessels this year.

  • Fischcon Fire Extinguishing Equipment Delivered for World’s Largest FLNG Project

    18 February 2013

    Fischcon has been awarded the contract to deliver the high capacity diesel driven fire extinguishing pump systems on board Shell’s Prelude project, the largest Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility ever built. Fischcon delivered these critical components in mid-January 2013. The complex vessel is under construction at high-tech offshore vessel builder Samsung Heavy Industries in […]

  • Europe’s first ammonia-fired power generation facility planned in Ireland

    5 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Centrica, a UK-based energy company, and Mitsubishi Power Europe, a power solutions brand of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the development, construction and operation of Europe’s first-ever ammonia-fired power generation facility at Bord Gáis Energy’s Whitegate Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station in Cork, Ireland. […]

  • Engine room of dredger caught fire off Pulau Pisang (Malaysia)

    2 November 2009
    Vessels

    The main engine room of a sand dredger, “SMLT Antigoon” which was registered in Marseilles, caught fire while en route to Singapore from India yesterday… Source: MySinchew, November 2, 2009;

  • Inquiry into fire incident at Norwegian offshore gas platform draws to a close

    6 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Norwegian offshore safety regulator has finished investigating a fire incident on a platform in the Norwegian Sea.

  • ZIM Kingston catches fire, loses 40 containers in rough seas

    25 October 2021
    Environment, Infrastructure, Safety, Vessels

    ZIM Kingston, a Malta-flagged Panamax containership, lost about 40 containers overboard during heavy weather off the Strait of Juan de Fuca on 22 October.

  • EIA: Projected Growth in Gas-Fired Generation Influenced by Resource Availability

    13 June 2014

    Different scenarios of natural gas resource availability in the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2014, Reference case, High Oil and Gas Resource case, and Low Oil and Gas Resource case affect the growth of natural gas-fired electric generation. As increasing amounts of natural gas become economically available to the power sector and onsite generators, gas-fired electric […]

  • Fire burns in hold of large ship docked in Long Beach Harbor

    17 March 2006

    LONG BEACH, Calif. Investigators are still working to put out a fire that broke out this afternoon in the hold of a large cargo ship docked in Long Beach Harbor. Tons of scrap metal are burning. The fire has spread smoke across the massive Long Beach Port area.

  • ABS Introduces Industry’s 1st Guide to Tackle Containership Fire Issue

    11 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    ABS’s guide is addressing firefighting and safety systems of cargo holds of container vessels.

  • UPDATE: MS Westerdam Returns to Port after Boiler Room Fire

    1 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    A fire in the boiler room aboard a Holland America cruise ship, the MS Westerdam, sailing with over 2,900 people onboard has caused the cruise liner to return to port in Seattle, according to the U.S. Coast Guard officials.   “At approximately 5:15 p.m. local time on June 28, a small fire occurred in one […]

  • Chevron-Operated Jack-up Rig Catches Fire Offshore Nigeria

    17 January 2012

    Chevron Nigeria Limited, said it was working to contain a fire that ignited yesterday aboard the K.S. Endeavor, a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited. The rig was drilling a natural gas exploration well, located in the Funiwa Field approximately six miles (10 kilometers) offshore and in approximately 40 feet (12 […]

  • Megayacht Lady Candid sinks off Pianotolli Caldarello after fire

    30 July 2007

    The 1974 classic Benetti megaycht, Lady Candida, was completely destroyed by fire, on Saturday, before sinking off Pianotolli Caldarello, on Corsican coast. The 35 metre yacht had been chartered by a Monégasque family of 12, including 4 young children and there was a crew of five. All took to the lifeboats and were then picked […]

  • Allianz: Robust prevention measures are key to clamp down on battery fires in shipping

    31 August 2022
    Green Marine, Safety, Vessels

    Transport of highly inflammable lithium-ion batteries, a key component of electric vehicles, which can also be used as backup power for ships, is increasingly impacting shipping safety as demonstrated by a number of fires on vessels such as Ro-Ro car carriers and containerships. Given the many difficulties involved in suppressing battery fires, particularly at sea, focusing on loss […]

  • Scarabeo 5 rig fire: Saipem investigating, PSA gathering intel

    23 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Italian oilfield services provider and drilling contractor Saipem is looking into the cause of the engine room fire aboard its offshore drilling rig in Norway on Tuesday. To remind, the fire broke out on Saipem’s Scarabeo 5 semi-submersible drilling rig which is employed on the Statoil-run Njord field in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil said on […]

  • Update: DEME’s LNG-powered multipurpose vessel catches fire in Spain

    16 February 2018
    Vessels

    DEME’s LNG-powered offshore multipurpose vessel, the Living Stone has caught fire on Thursday while under construction in a shipyard in Spain’s port town of Santurtzi. According to local media reports, the fire started on Thursday at around 4:55 PM local time, and was put out at around 5:20 PM. “There was a small fire on […]

  • Fire breaks out at offshore oil platform, leaving four injured

    12 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Trinity Exploration & Production has confirmed that a fire broke out at one of its platforms working at an oil field offshore Trinidad.

  • Freeport LNG outage to last months due to damage in fire incident

    15 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Freeport LNG has said that the shutdown of its Quintana Island liquefaction facility will last longer than expected following a fire incident earlier this month.

  • Cruise lines under fire for pollution as they make sewage cleaner

    14 April 2005

    The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships together could hold every one of Miami’s 360,000 residents with room to spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.