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  • Remote control fire fighting system ready for crewless ship ops

    20 January 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Technology, Vessels

    Survitec’s fire fighting system and safety equipment aboard Yara Birkeland – the world’s first fully autonomous containership – has completed its first annual service ahead of the 3200 dwt ship’s first laden voyage.

  • 198 Containers on Board Fire-Stricken Yantian Express a Total Loss

    12 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    A total of 198 containers have been identified as a total loss due to the fire on board Yantian Express.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Brittany Ferries’ Ship Hit by Engine Room Fire off France

    29 April 2019

    Pont-Aven caught fire off the French coast in the early morning hours of April 29.

  • 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.

  • BP fires up Thunder Horse South Expansion project

    23 January 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Oil giant BP has started up the Thunder Horse South Expansion project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 11 months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget.   The company stated on Monday the project is expected to boost production at the facility by an estimated 50,000 gross barrels of oil equivalent per day, further […]

  • 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 […]

  • Puerto Rico’s Push for Jones Act Exemption Under Fire

    17 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The recently proposed five-year plan that would allow non U.S.-flagged ships to transport cargo between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico would undermine or possibly even sabotage this indebted unincorporated U.S. territory’s assistance package, according to Tom Allegretti, American Maritime Partnership Chairman. The restructuring plan, released by Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, suggests that Jones Act, the […]

  • Puerto Rico’s Push for Jones Act Exemption Under Fire

    17 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The recently proposed five-year plan that would allow non U.S.-flagged ships to transport cargo between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico would undermine or possibly even sabotage this indebted unincorporated U.S. territory’s assistance package, according to Tom Allegretti, American Maritime Partnership Chairman. The restructuring plan, released by Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, suggests that Jones Act, the […]

  • Souped-up ship to replace ailing Hub fire boat

    16 January 2006

    The 30-year-old boat called

  • Wärtsilä to deliver natural gas-fired power plant to Argentina

    21 November 2016

    Wärtsilä of Finland has been contracted to supply a 101-MW power generation plant to Pampa Energía in Argentina, featuring multi-fuel engines running on natural gas and heavy-fuel oil.

  • Wartsila to supply engines for Indonesian gas-fired power plant

    28 June 2017

    Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide engines for PLN’s peaking power plant in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia. The national utility PLN has appointed a consortium between PT WIKA and TSK Electronica Y Electricidad S.A. to deliver the power plant. The power plant will be powered by 13 Wärtsilä 50SG engines, operating on natural gas […]

  • Inyanga Marine Energy Group appoints new chair of the board

    18 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    UK-based Inyanga Marine Energy Group has appointed Martin Murphy as the new Chair of the Board. Murphy, a Chartered Engineer and experienced CEO, served 12 years in the Royal Navy before moving into senior corporate and entrepreneurial roles in the marine renewables sector, according to Inyanga Marine Energy Group.  “This is an exciting time in […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Jera acquires stake in New York gas-fired power project

    27 January 2017

    Japan’s Jera, the joint company of Tepco and Chubu Electric and the largest importer of LNG, acquired a stake in a natural gas-fired thermal power generation project in New York State.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Fire Island Inlet Stabilization Project Remains Top Priority (USA)

    24 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet stabilization project remains a high priority for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers. The agencies are continuing to work together to expedite implementation of this large-scale and complex project. Over the past few days representatives from the Department of the Interior […]

  • Northern Ireland: Fire on fishing vessel causes crew to abandon vessel

    6 June 2006

    JUST after half past midnight, Belfast Coastguard received a routine VHF call from the skipper of the fishing vessel ‘Noroyna’ after the crew had detected a fire on board. The fishing vessel from Kilkeel, Northern Ireland, was in the early hours of this morning on fire 22 miles North East of Howth Head. The crew […]