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  • One worker killed, 30 missing after Azeri oil rig fire – government

    6 December 2015

    At least one worker was killed and 30 others were missing on Saturday after an Azeri oil platform caught fire during high winds in the Caspian Sea on Friday, state energy company SOCAR said.

  • Prysmian’s Monna Lisa to connect Italy and Tunisia

    1 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Italy’s transmission system operator (TSO) Terna and Tunisian counterpart STEG have selected Italian cabling giant Prysmian for the construction of a submarine power interconnection between the two countries. The Elmed project will be the first direct current connection between Europe and Africa and will run from the Partanna electrical substation in Sicily and the Mlaabi […]

  • MHI to study ammonia-fired power generation using gas turbines in Indonesia

    29 September 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Research & Development

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has signed an agreement with Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) to conduct joint research and development of ammonia-fired power generation by gas turbine. The new research is a part of the partners’ ongoing initiative to look into a variety of clean energy solutions to help Indonesia achieve decarbonisation. It will apply […]

  • SBM Offshore FPSO up and running in Guyana: First oil gushes out of ExxonMobil’s 4th project

    11 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    SBM Offshore, a provider of design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, has put its new floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel into production mode, enabling ExxonMobil’s fourth oil project in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana to come online.

  • LNG deal with Florida-based firm fortifies Barbados’ energy security

    3 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Florida-headquartered Sawgrass LNG & Power, a provider of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and turnkey gas-to-power solutions across the Southeastern United States and Caribbean, has strengthened its years-long ties with Barbados National Energy Company Limited (BNECL) through a new LNG supply contract.

  • Denmark: Gazprom, DONG Energy Sign LOI to Cooperate in Gas-fired Power Generation

    27 April 2011

      Tuesday in Copenhagen Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom’s Management Committee and Anders Eldrup, Chief Executive Officer of DONG Energy signed a Letter of Intent to establish cooperation in gas-fired power generation. The cooperation will focus on promoting the use of natural gas in Europe as a cleaner alternative to coal and a complement […]

  • Coal-fired generating station contract awarded to Aker Kvaerner / Siemens consortium

    30 January 2007

    Longview Power, LLC (“Longview”), a subsidiary of GenPower Holdings, L.P. has awarded Aker Kvaerner Songer, Inc. and Siemens Power Generation, Inc. acting as a consortium, a series of contracts for the engineering, supply of equipment and construction for the Longview project, a supercritical pulverized coal-fired generating facility in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Foster Wheeler North […]

  • VIDEO: Three Workers Missing after Oil Rig Fire, Oil Spill Averted

    3 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Three workers are still unaccounted for after the explosion and subsequent fire on Pemex-owned Abkatun Permanente oil processing platform situated in the Gulf of Mexico. Two of the missing workers were employed by Cotemar, a Mexican oil services company whereas the remaining one was working for Pemex. Four people were killed and 45 injured in the fire that followed a […]

  • USA: Medina International Delivers Firehawk 24 Fire Rescue Boat to New Jersey

    6 July 2011

      Medina International Holdings, Inc. has completed delivery of a Firehawk 24 fire rescue boat to the Westville Fire District #1, New Jersey, through its wholly owned subsidiary Harbor Guard Boats, Inc. “We are very pleased to have completed delivery of another Firehawk 24 model,” commented Mr. Daniel Medina, President of Medina International Holdings, Inc. […]

  • Damen on construction duty for vessel pair destined to support Woodside’s Gulf of Mexico ops

    7 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group is in charge of building two next-generation offshore support tugs (OSTs) for work in the Gulf of Mexico with Woodside Energy, an Australian energy giant.

  • USA: BOEMRE Finds Old Equipment to Be Cause of Fire Outbreak on Vermilion 380 A Platform

    26 May 2011
    Business & Finance

      The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today released the findings of its investigation into a fire that occurred Sept. 2, 2010, on Mariner Energy Inc.’s, Vermilion 380 A oil and natural gas production platform located approximately 102 miles off the coast of Louisiana. A BOEMRE Accident Investigation Panel concluded that […]

  • Boluda Towage bolsters presence in Strait of Gibraltar with Resolve Salvage and Fire acquisition

    13 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Vessels

    Boluda Towage, a subsidiary of Spain’s Boluda Corporación Marítima, has expanded its global operations with the acquisition of Resolve Salvage and Fire, solidifying its position in the Strait of Gibraltar. The move aims to enhance services and intervention capabilities for both companies. The addition of Resolve Salvage and Fire, owned by Resolve Marine Group, brings tugs Elliot, […]

  • Transocean rig two weeks away from drilling ops offshore Australia

    30 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ConocoPhillips Australia (COPA), a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant ConocoPhillips, has embarked on pre-lay operations before it begins its natural gas exploration activities in the Otway Basin off the coast of Australia, with a rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling giant.

  • Tokyo Gas buys stake in New York gas-fired power plant

    14 October 2016

    Tokyo Gas’ unit Tokyo Gas America acquired a 25 percent interest in a 635 MW Empire natural gas power plant, through a joint venture company TTK Power.

  • MOL Boxship Drifting off BC after Engine Fire. Two Crew Medevaced

    2 February 2018

    Two crew members of MOL Prestige airlifted after they sustained injuries in an engine fire.

  • USACE Releases Draft GRR/EIS for Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point Scheme

    22 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has announced the availability of the Draft General Re-evaluation Report/Environmental Impact Statement (Draft GRR/EIS) for the proposed Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, New York (FIMP) Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. The release of the draft feasibility study opens a 60-day review period for the public to […]

  • Fire-stricken X-Press Pearl sinks. No oil pollution, says operator

    3 June 2021
    Environment, Safety, Vessels

    Chemical-laden feeder containership X-Press Pearl, which has been burning for almost two weeks off Sri Lanka’s coast, sank yesterday and touched the sea bottom, the Indian Coast Guard informed. “The ship’s aft portion is sitting on the seabed at a depth of about 21 meters, and the forward section continues to settle down slowly.  Salvors […]

  • HMS Iron Duke Fires Number of Weapons Systems during Sea Trials (UK)

    3 September 2013

    HMS Iron Duke has taken a few steps closer to taking on full operational duties after firing a number of weapons systems during her ongoing sea trials off the coast of Hampshire and Dorset. The Portsmouth-based frigate has been holding sea trials in the English Channel building up towards an operational deployment next year. In […]

  • UK: IMO Sub-Committee on Fire Protection Finalizes Comprehensive Revision of FSS Code

    2 August 2011

    Seven years’ work on the FSS Code was finalised at recently held session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Fire Protection (FP 55) The Sub-Committee on Fire Protection (FP 55) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has finalised a comprehensive revision of the Fire Safety Systems (FSS) Code. The work has been in progress for the […]

  • Petroleum Geo-Services ASA: No Personnel Injured After Fire Onboard Atlantic Explorer

    25 June 2008

    OSLO, Norway, June 25, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (‘PGS’ or the ‘Company’) announced today that on June 24th there was a fire in one of the auxiliary engines on the seismic vessel Atlantic Explorer, which was operating offshore Senja in Norway. The fire has been extinguished, and the vessel is under tow […]

  • Five Oceans Salvage, SMIT Salvage Hired to Rescue MV ‘Hansa Brandenburg’

    19 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Shipmanagement Company Leonhardt & Blumberg reported yesterday that they have appointed Five Oceans Salvage LTD & SMIT Salvage BV for the salvaging of her container vessel Hansa Brandenburg which is suffering from a fire on board and is drifting some 200 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. The tug Coral Sea Flos is currently on its […]

  • Sri Lanka eyes LNG-fired power plant, axes coal plant plans

    18 May 2016

    Sri Lanka decided to ditch the plans to build a 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant and turn to an LNG-fired option, according to the country’s petroleum minister Chandima Weerakkody.

  • USA: Lake Worth Lagoon Restoration Project Under Fire Over Odor

    18 April 2011

    The town will ask county environmental resources managers to appear at the May 10 Town Council meeting to answer questions about a Lake… By DAVID ROGERS (palmbeachdailynews) [mappress] Source: palmbeachdailynews, April 18, 2011  

  • WSC, IMO Fire Back at Study Findings on Lack of Action on Climate Change

    25 October 2017
    Rules & Regulation

    The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Shipping Council (WSC) have hit back at the accusations stemming from the recently published study by the InfluenceMap on the IMO’s approach to tackling carbon emissions from shipping. The report claims that the shipping industry has aggressively lobbied the UN to obstruct climate change action for shipping, “ensuring it remains […]

  • Vestas announces to fire 3000 workers as plan to cut excess capacities (Denmark)

    27 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Vestas has announced plans to cut around 3,000 jobs as part of its plan to cut excess capacity in Europe. The move was revealed as part of… James Quilter (windpowermonthly) [mappress] Source: windpowermonthly, October 27, 2010;