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  • Congressman Zeldin, USACE Officials Tour Smith Point

    26 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    New York’s Congressman Lee Zeldin today joined Commanding General of the USACE Headquarters, Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, and New York District’s USACE Commander, Colonel Thomas Asbery, as they surveyed Smith Point County Park, following the emergency dredge of Moriches Inlet and the Long Island Intracoastal Waterway. An upcoming major milestone will be LTG Semonite’s final approval […]

  • UK Plans to Phase Out Coal Power Stations by 2025

    18 November 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Storage

    The UK government has announced plans to close all unabated coal-fired power stations by 2025 and restrict their use by 2023. The government will consult early next year on when to close all unabated coal-fired power stations. Announcing the decision ahead of a speech which will set out a new direction for the country’s energy […]

  • K Line-operated car carrier obtains notation for safe EV transportation

    4 September 2024
    Certification & Classification, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    Car carrier Texas Highway, currently operated by K Line, has received a notation from ClassNK for its additional fire safety measures during marine transportation of electric vehicles.

  • Five Killed in Sewol Search Helicopter Crash

    17 July 2014

    A search helicopter carrying emergency workers flying from the Sewol ferry disaster site crashed in a South Korean city of Gwangju, leaving five dead and one injured.   The helicopter was carrying fire-fighters who were returning to their base after spending past four days trying to find the remaining Sewol passengers, when it crashed into a […]

  • Pemex resumes production at Abkatun platform

    6 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Pemex has informed that after a fire that occurred on the Abkatun Alpha platform, in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico last week, the company restarted production in the Abkatun central processing platform.  On April 1, 2015, the incident on Abkatun Alpha platform spurred evacuation of 301 workers and caused the deaths of four. On […]

  • EIA: cheaper natural gas drives down electricity wholesale price

    12 January 2017

    Average wholesale electricity prices at major trading hubs across the United States during 2016 were pushed down due to the low cost of natural gas.

  • Avanti Accredited for Global Wind Industry Standard Trainings

    23 June 2014
    Human Capital

    Avanti Wind System announce that 4 of its existing trainers have now been accredited for The Global Wind Industry Standard (GWO) of Manual Handling, First Aid, Working at Heights and Fire Awareness by Lloyds. The company is now accredited to execute the following GWO best safety trainings: 4 hour Manual Handling 4 hour Fire Awareness […]

  • Antwerp Port Hit by Heavy Explosion

    29 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    A heavy blast rocked the port of Antwerp on Friday when a solid waste storage bunker exploded at an industrial waste treatment plant, Antwerp’s fire department said. The blast originated in a tank containing solvents, while an adjacent warehouse, containing small quantities of stored chemicals, caught fire and burned down completely, the facility owner Indaver said. There […]

  • Good progress on Skarv FPSO

    8 August 2008

    Engineering work carried out on the hull of the Skarv FPSO at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea is “excellent”, an inspection performed by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has revealed. The PSA said it had carried out the audit to verify that BP Norge’s engineering of the Skarv facility complies with the […]

  • Freighter Ablaze off Surabaya

    30 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The crew of 19 was evacuated today from an Indonesia-flagged cargo ship that caught fire some 20 nautical miles north of Surabaya, Indonesia, close to the location of yesterday’s collision between an LPG tanker and a container ship, according to local media. Local authorities reportedly dispatched two tug boats to assist the crew. The vessel […]

  • Chemical ship ablaze off Kerry coast

    10 April 2007

    A fire has broken out in the engine room of a chemical transport ship off the southwest coast of Ireland. The fire started at around 2:20am on the Maltese registered ship seven and a half miles north of Brandon Head.

  • 22 Evacuated from Burning Bulker off Indonesia

    11 November 2018

    Twenty-two crew members have been evacuated from a burning bulker named MV Golden Ocean.

  • Oregon DOE recommends South Dunes power plant approval

    15 October 2015

    The Oregon Department of Energy issued a proposed order to the Energy Facility Siting Council to grant the site certificate, allowing the siting, construction and operation of the South Dunes gas-fired power plant in Coos County.

  • Navy: New Diamond patched and ready to be towed

    15 September 2020
    Vessels

    All leaks on the hull of the fire-stricken very large crude carrier New Diamond, currently situated off Sri Lanka have been sealed, the Indian Navy said. The announcement comes on the back of a joint underwater inspection of the supertanker conducted by members of Sri Lanka Navy, the Indian Navy, and SMIT salvage team, employed […]

  • Maersk: Hope Fades for Finding Maersk Honam’s Missing Crew Members

    8 March 2018
    Business & Finance

    Hope fades for finding missing crew members of Maersk Honam which remains ablaze.

  • Utilities in India turn to LNG as coal plants shut down

    1 September 2014

      Unviable operations, delayed payments and fuel shortages have lead to shutting down of coal-fired plants, and several state utilities in India turned to a more expensive power generated from LNG to meet the demand. Inadequate domestic gas production forced several utilities to raise their gas-fired power generation significantly as well as buy expensive LNG. The […]

  • Disabled Tanker Allowed into Las Palmas for Repairs

    1 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Fire-stricken Aframax Lady-M arrived into the port of Las Palmas, Canary Islands on Sunday having been given a special permission to enter port. The Liberian-flagged tanker, loaded with 94,000 tonnes of fuel, suffered a fire in its engine room on May 14 in the Atlantic  while en route from Persian Gulf to Houston, the US, Spanish media reported. The fire, which […]

  • Statoil’s Troll C gets audited for barrier management

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Between 28 and 31 January 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of barrier management, technical safety and electrical systems at Troll C platform in the North Sea. The objective of the audit was to verify whether Statoil’s management and monitoring of barriers at Troll C was in accordance with the company’s […]

  • Pella: Tugboat ‘RB-401’ Delivered

    26 December 2013

    Pella shipyard has delivered the tugboat “RB-401” (building No 939, project 90600) to the port of operation- Kaliningrad. The tugboat is intended for towing and berthing operations in harbor, roadsteads and coastal areas which comply with R3 navigation area, refloating of ships and vessels, fire fighting operations at floating and shore objects, oil and petroleum […]

  • Maersk Karachi Ablaze at Bremerhaven Port

    25 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The 300-meter container ship Maersk Karachi suffered a second accident at the German port of Bremerhaven when a fire broke out in one of its holds while it was reportedly undergoing welding repairs on May 22, the local daily NWZ Online reports. Four tug boats and seventy fire fighters battled with the flames for eight hours before the fire was […]

  • Top Side Offshore Technology introduces ComPro+ Offshore Communication System

    30 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Top Side Offshore Technology has launched a new Offshore Communication System ComPro+, based on GSM technology, that bridges the gaps in communication offshore. Built on a private GSM network covering the full offshore installation, ComPro+ facilitates Communication over voice and data, Lone Worker Protection, Track & Trace of personnel, it extends and personalizes the fire […]

  • TenneT: Electricity Prices Decline in Netherlands, Germany

    7 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    In 2014, the average price for a megawatt hour of electricity in the Netherlands amounted to 41 euros, down more than 20 percent from 52 euros in 2013, TenneT reported.  These developments mean that market prices in the Netherlands and Germany are gradually converging. Whereas prices were equal in both countries for 19 percent of […]

  • Hapag-Lloyd Declares General Average on Yantian Express

    28 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Hapag-Lloyd has declared General Average on its fire-stricken containership Yantian Express.

  • Petronas targets sustainable underwater operations via partnership with Norwegians

    8 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Malaysian state-owned oil and gas company Petronas has partnered up with Norwegian high-tech underwater robotics company Eelume with the aim of advancing sustainable underwater operations. The collaboration is said to support the continued development, enhancement and deployment of an advanced subsea autonomous technology (ASAT) for upstream inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) operation. Central to the […]

  • Firefighters tackle blaze on ship

    5 May 2009

    Firefighters have put out a blaze on a Royal Navy helicopter carrier at Falmouth docks in Cornwall. The fire is believed to have started when a number of rags caught fire on the lower decks of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus. Firefighters investigated using breathing apparatus, a water jet and a thermal image camera.