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  • 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.

  • Shell fires up Olympus tie-back in Gulf of Mexico 

    29 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Shell has kicked off production at a tie-back to its Olympus production hub, unlocking further value in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

  • CNOOC fires up Buzzard expansion project in North Sea

    29 November 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    CNOOC Limited has started production from the Buzzard Phase II development located offshore in the UK sector of the North Sea.

  • Santos fires starting gun for Dorado FPSO supply competition

    13 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Australia’s Santos is pushing forward with its Dorado field development, located in the Bedout Basin offshore Western Australia.

  • Total fires up second Kaombo FPSO offshore Angola

    2 April 2019
    Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Total has started up production on Kaombo Sul, the second floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit of the Kaombo project, located on Block 32, 260 kilometers off the coast of Luanda,

  • Hutchison Ports Australia Fires 100 Dockworkers via Email

    7 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    Hutchison Ports Australia, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, closed its Sydney and Brisbane terminals and stopped all activities after sacking around 100 out of its 224 dockworkers via an email sent around midnight August 6, local time. Local police have been brought in to watch over the Hutchison workers picketing outside the company’s terminal […]

  • Stolt-Nielsen Foresees Impact from Houston Ship Channel Fire

    5 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    The fire at a petrochemical storage facility erupted on March 17.

  • Fire on Petrobras’ offshore platform injures two workers, halts output

    22 May 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned company, has reportedly stopped output at its P-56 offshore platform in the Campos Basin off Brazil after an explosion started a fire and injured two workers.  According to Reuters, the explosion happened on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in the Marlim Sul field and left two workers injured. Reuters further reports that one of […]

  • Cruise Ships Skip Australia’s Port of Eden amid Raging Bush Fires

    8 January 2020

    Seaport of Eden impacted by major bush fires raging across New South Wales.

  • USA: Study Shows Large LNG Fires Smaller Than Expected

    15 November 2011

    New research shows that large-scale liquefied natural gas fires are hotter but smaller than anticipated, which means regulators can assume… (platts) [mappress] Source: platts, November 15, 2011

  • Engie disposes of its last coal-fired asset in Asia-Pacific

    20 June 2018

    French energy giant and LNG player Engie, signed a deal to sell its 68.1 percent interest in Glow, to Global Power Synergy Public Company for €2.6 billion ($3 billion). 

  • One Injured and Three Missing after Tanoto Shipyard Fire (Singapore)

    27 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    One man has been seriously injured while three are still missing due to a fire that broke out yesterday at Tanoto Shipyard off Shipyard Road in Jurong, Singapore. As Straitstimes reports, according to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) the Tanoto fire started from a tug boat and later spread to three other vessels that were […]

  • Investigation launched after fire breaks out on North Sea platform

    23 June 2016

    An investigation has been launched after a fire broke out on CNR International’s offshore platform Ninian South located in the UK sector of the North Sea. Following reports of a fire on the North Sea platform, Offshore Energy Today reached out to the field operator seeking confirmation and further details on the incident. The company’s […]

  • Oil & Gas UK updates guidance on offshore fire & explosion design

    29 March 2018
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Oil & Gas UK on Thursday released an updated information setting out good practice in designing against fire and explosions on offshore installations Revisions to the document, developed by industry experts, will provide companies in the UK Continental Shelf with the most up to date good practice and guidance, Oil & Gas UK said in […]

  • Corps: Smokeless Fire Assists in Reactivation of Dredge Disposal Area (USA)

    22 January 2014

    Air may not seem like an effective barrier for some things, but when coupled with a trailer-mounted blower and heat, it provides a very efficient barrier and environmentally friendly way of clearing land with little smoke. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, is using this method also known as “air curtain burning” as […]

  • Pemex identifies workers killed in platform fire. Three still missing

    3 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

      Pemex has identified four workers killed in the Abkatun Alpha platform fire outbreak in Mexico’s Campeche Bay on Wednesday, April 1, 2014. In a statement issued yesterday, Mexico’s national oil company said that three of the deceased worked for Cotemar, and the fourth worker was a Pemex employee. Three workers are still missing; two employed by […]

  • Pakistan to fire up two LNG-fueled power plants in February

    4 December 2017

    Pakistan’s National Assembly Standing Committee on Planning and Development was informed that 1200 MW LNG-based power plants at Balloki and Haveli Bahadur Shah will be functional by February next year.

  • Sempra Sells One Block of Gas Fired Power Plant, USA

    27 December 2012

    Sempra U.S. Gas & Power announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell one 625-megawatt (MW) block of its 1,250 MW Mesquite Power natural gas-fired power plant to the Salt River Project (SRP) Agricultural Improvement and Power District for $371 million. The SRP Board of Directors approved a management proposal to acquire 100 […]

  • ITF: Madagascan Gov’t Faces ILO Complaint about Fired Dockers

    6 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Government of Madagascar has faced an International Labour Organization (ILO) complaint about its treatment of 43 dockworkers who were laid off for joining a union, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) informed. The complaint has been lodged by the ITF on behalf of Madagascan Toamasina Port workers and the union SYGMMA. Steve Cotton, General Secretary of […]

  • MSC Flaminia Fire Helps EU Develop Guidelines on Places of Refuge

    28 January 2016
    Business & Finance

    The European Commission presented the new EU operational guidelines for ships in need of assistance in the aftermath of the MSC Flaminia accident, which occurred in July of 2012. The EU operational guidelines were drafted to ensure better coordination and exchange of information amongst authorities and industry stakeholders involved in the response to an incident concerning […]

  • US NGCC plants surpass coal-fired plants as top electricity producer

    11 April 2019

    U.S. natural gas-fired combined-cycle capacity has surpassed annual and monthly coal-fired capacity electricity generation capacity, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

  • VIDEO: Fire Breaks Out on Saipem’s Rig Scarabeo 5 (The Netherlands)

    20 September 2013

    The drilling rig Scarabeo 5 cought fire this morning while at Keppel Verolme yard, the Netherlands, undergoing special survey works. According to the Dutch media, three workers have been injured in the accident. Reportedly, a gas leak caused the fire. The vessel, owned by Saipem, is chartered by Statoil for the North Sea drilling. [mappress] World Maritime […]

  • Up to 100 dead after ferry catches fire on Lake Tanganyika

    6 June 2006

    Kinshasa/Nairobi – Up to 100 people were presumed dead following a fire on a ferry on the Congolese side of Lake Tanganyika in central Africa, reports said Wednesday in Kinshasa. The ferry was travelling south from Uvira to Kalemie with several tonnes of freight, including barrels of oil and petrol, when the engine caught fire, […]

  • Somali Pirates Exchange Fire with Armed Guards on board Cement Carrier

    24 January 2018

    Armed guards deter pirates from boarding a cement carrier in the Gulf of Aden.

  • Babcock Secures Fire Management Contract for UK Royal Navy’s Ships

    20 December 2011

    Babcock has successfully secured a multi-million pound Fire Management Contract, awarded by the MoD Maritime Equipment Systems (MES) team, part of Fleet Wide Equipment, won in competition against other leading defence contractors and specialist manufacturers. Under the contract Babcock will be providing project management, spares and consumables provision, repair and refurbishment, and post-design activity for […]