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  • Seattle fireboat fleet improving

    27 July 2006

    When smoke filled the pilot’s cabins of the two Seattle fireboats fighting a pier fire on Lake Union earlier this month, firefighters donned oxygen masks so they could breathe. On the deck of one fireboat, the 80-year-old Alki, crew members twisted large, bright-red wheels by hand to aim water cannons at the flames. The technology […]

  • PSA Inspects NAD’s Management of West Alpha Systems

    18 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    During the period 29 October – 2 November 2012, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of North Atlantic Drilling’s (NAD’s) management of major accident risk and barrier handling system on West Alpha. The objective of the activity was to evaluate the company’s understanding, knowledge and expertise related to major accident risk […]

  • Statoil Stops Production at Hammerfest LNG (Norway)

    13 January 2012

    On Wednesday afternoon, Statoil temporarily shut down production at its LNG plant at Melkøya outside Hammerfest following rupture of a fire water line. The fire water unit is part of the plant’s safety system, and Statoil implemented a controlled production shut down. A water leakage at the rupture site has excavated some of the soil […]

  • Slow progress made on repairing disabled Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica

    18 February 2007

    Repair crews on Monday fired up generators and switched on the lights aboard a Japanese whaling ship for the first time since a deadly fire rendered it powerless and adrift near the Antarctic coast four days earlier. As work continued to get the ship out of trouble under its own steam, New Zealand’s leader warned […]

  • Report: Tanker’s Crew Member Dies of Major Burns

    18 January 2018

    One crew member from the fire-stricken tanker Genessa has lost his life due to major burns.

  • Containers Fall into Oakland Estuary

    18 November 2014

    The U.S. Coast Guard and San Francisco fire department personnel enforced a safety zone for containers that fell in the water from the motor vessel NYK Aquarius while offloading cargo at SSA Facility Berth 57 in the Oakland estuary late Saturday, November 15. At approximately 8:30 p.m. local time, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders […]

  • PSA Norway Identifies Regulatory Nonconformities During West Elara Audit

    4 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    The PSA conducted an audit from 10 to 12 May 2011 focusing on issues relating to technical safety, safety systems and maintenance management on board the facility West Elara. Background West Elara is a new jack-up, N-class drilling facility built by the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. The PSA’s activity was conducted as part of the […]

  • Fresh oil discovery in Barents Sea comes to light

    4 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Vår Energi, an independent upstream oil and gas company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), has made a new oil discovery off the coast of Norway, with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe.

  • UN WFP Supply Ship Attacked off Hodeidah

    6 June 2018

    A vessel operating as part of the UN’s World Food Programme has been attacked in the Southern Red Sea.

  • NYK Tests STS Connection for Navigation Support Tool

    26 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    NYK and MTI have successfully tested a ship-to-shore connection for the ship navigation support tool J-Marine NeCST.

  • Norway: Autronica Stresses Importance of Gas Detection on Dual Fuel LNG Vessels

    5 June 2013
    Vessels

    With the number of vessels using dual fuel/LNG propulsion systems growing steadily, Autronica Fire and Security is focusing on the importance of gas detection in this sector during Nor-Shipping 2013. LNG as a fuel can provide lower bunkering costs and emissions, in addition to less wear on engines, however, LNG propulsion systems must be monitored […]

  • Shreyas Begins SSL Kolkata Counter Pollution, Salvage Ops

    13 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    Shreyas: Counter pollution and salvage works for the fire-stricken merchant vessel SSL Kolkata have started.

  • Pirates Attack Cable Layer in Red Sea

    25 July 2016

    Pirates have attacked a cable laying vessel during operations in the Red Sea on Friday, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) informed. Sixteen pirates in two skiffs armed with AK47 and an RPG reportedly approached and fired upon a cable laying vessel. The master of the vessel activated ship security alert system (SSAS) and raised the […]

  • Tongfang Jiangxin wins batch tugboat construction project contract

    10 August 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    In the bidding for the batch tugboat construction project of Sinopec Shengli Oilfield Branch, Tongfang Jiangxin Shipbuilding won the 2023 Shengli Oilfield Offshore Oil Ship Center 4 A 5000 HP full-turn tugboat construction project contract. According to the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry, this is one of the large ship operation orders of […]

  • Update: Norman Atlantic’s Death Toll Rises to 12

    4 February 2015

    Italian authorities have found another charred body  on board the fire-stricken Norman Atlantic ferry, the Hellenic Coast Guard informed. The body was found on a truck cabin on deck four.  Italian authorities have transferred the body to the Forensic Medicine Institute in Bari, where identification activities are ongoing. The latest discovery brings the death toll to 12 people, with 18 people […]

  • Year-long outage of Hammerfest LNG plant to affect Neptune output

    27 October 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance

    Neptune Energy expects its full-year production to be impacted by the closure of the Equinor-operated Hammerfest LNG plant following a recent fire incident.

  • Two Cargo Vessels Sink Off Philippines

    19 January 2017

    Two cargo vessels have sunk offshore Philippines in two separate accidents on January 17, 2017. A cargo vessel M/V Meridian Tres sank in the vicinity of Sto Niño Dive Site, Boho, with 29 people onboard, Philippine Coast Guard informed. The Coast Guard immediately conducted search and rescue operation together with several other search and rescue vessels. A total […]

  • Venture Global denies any connection to fatal incident offshore Louisiana: Explosion and fire under investigation after gas pipeline worker’s death

    21 August 2024
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Human Capital, Safety

    In the aftermath of a tragic incident that resulted in the death of a 40-year-old worker, the Louisiana State Police (LSP) is looking into the offshore natural gas pipeline explosion and fire to get to the bottom of the incident off the coast of Louisiana.

  • Update: Alliance St. Louis Heads to Port Arthur

    19 January 2017

    The vehicle carrier Alliance St. Louis, which suffered an engine room fire some 150 miles south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana, on January 16, 2017, is currently under tow and is heading towards Port Arthur, Texas, the US Coast Guard (USCG) informed. A tug arrived on scene on January 17 with a fire team aboard to […]

  • Update 2: Stricken MOL Boxship Taken Under Tow

    6 February 2018

    A tug arrived at the location of the stricken MOL Prestige boxship and has started towing the ship.

  • Inferno continues on Timor Sea oil rig

    3 November 2009

    The federal government has continued to defend its response to an oil spill leaking for more than 10 weeks, which has now sparked an oil rig fire in the Timor Sea. A fire broke out on PTTEP Australasia’s Montara well head platform on Sunday when the company began an operation to plug the well with […]

  • NYK pens ammonia transport deal with Mitsui & Co.

    6 December 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Japanese shipping company NYK has entered into a time charter contract with compatriot Mitsui & Co., Ltd. for the transportation of ammonia. NYK revealed that the deal was signed in October and that it would use its Panama-flagged LPG carrier, the Berlian Ekuator, as the key vessel for the shipments. “Through this agreement, NYK will […]

  • New program fortifies safety readiness across Malaysia’s oil & gas contractor and vendor sphere

    28 November 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has joined forces with the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) to bring a new project into play as a structured framework aimed to strengthen safety readiness across the oil and gas industry’s contractor and vendor ecosystem.

  • CCS, nuclear come under fire as EU sets 2040 climate goals, broadens scope of Net-Zero Industry Act

    7 February 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The European Council and Parliament reached a provision deal on Tuesday, February 6, on the ‘net-zero industry act’ (NZIA), a regulation that establishes a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem. The regulation aims at boosting the industrial deployment of net-zero technologies needed to achieve EU’s climate goals, by easing conditions […]

  • VIDEO: Azeri oil platform still burning

    29 December 2015

    The Gunashli 10 oil platform that caugh fire on December 4, 2015 is still burning, with the Azeri authorities struggling to quell the fire more than twenty days since the incident started. To remind, the fire broke out after a gas riser was damaged in a storm. Sixty three persons were aboard the Gunashli 10 […]