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  • PSA inspects ConocoPhillips’ Eldfisk S project

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    From 11 to 13 February 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips and the development project for Eldfisk 2/7 S in the Norwegian North Sea. The objective of the activity was to audit ConocoPhillips’s own management system for ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements for risk and barrier management from […]

  • Safety Measures Protect Ship from Piracy

    22 January 2010

    Jamaica-flagged M/V Miltiades came under attack and successfully deterred suspected pirates Jan. 17, while transiting approximately 130 nautical miles southwest of Al Mukalla, Yemen. The pirate skiff fired on the M/V with AK-47 rifles. The Miltiades embarked security team fired red flares and the ship took recommended evasive maneuvers to cause the skiff to break […]

  • False alarm forces offshore helicopter to return to base (Canada)

    4 September 2015

    A Cougar helicopter had to go back to land after a fire warning light turned on while the aircraft was on its way to a drilling rig, offshore St. John’s Canada, on Tuesday, September 1. While the helicopter was 100 nautical miles from St. John’s and en route to the GSF Grand Banks drilling rig, […]

  • Pirates Attack Navig8 Tanker in Gulf of Oman

    2 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    A product tanker was approached and fired upon while underway around 103 nautical miles East of Muscat, Oman on Thursday, June 1. The tanker in question was identified as MT NAVIG8 Providence by EU NAVFOR, which confirmed the attack. According to a report from ICC’s IMB Reporting Centre, the tanker was approached by six persons armed with […]

  • Good Samaritans Help USCG Save 5 from Blazing Vessel

    29 July 2014

    The U.S. Coast Guard assisted in the rescue of five people after their 40-foot vessel caught fire near Petit Bois Island, Alabama, last Friday.   Watchstanders at Coast Guard Mobile, Alabama, received a distress call from the International Emergency Response Coordination Center reporting an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon alert in the vicinity of Petit […]

  • Ports Could Soon Receive Remotely-Operated Fireboats

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Robert Allan, Kongsberg Maritime joined forces to develop a new range of remotely-operated fireboats for ports.

  • Turkish cargo ship ablaze

    5 February 2008

    A Turkish cargo ship caught fire Wednesday off Croatia’s north coast and is likely to sink after 31 people were rescued, authorities said. The national search and rescue centre was alerted soon after 5:00 am (0400 GMT) that the Und Adriyatik was on fire some 25 kms (15 miles) west of the port of Rovinj, […]

  • Fishermen escape blazing boat

    8 March 2006

    Five Ulster fishermen were recovering last night after making a dramatic escape from a burning boat when it caught fire 25 miles out to sea.

  • Chevron shakes hands with Thai player on oil & gas exploration in Southeast Asia’s block

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

    Chevron and BCPR, a Bangchak Group affiliate and Thai energy company, have joined forces to undertake actions aimed at strengthening exploration and development activities at an offshore block in the Gulf of Thailand, Southeast Asia.

  • Dutch Government Goes 16 Pct Renewable by 2020

    1 November 2012
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    The additional 2.4 billion budgeted for renewable energy by the new Dutch Rutte II cabinet should be sufficient to realise 16% renewable energy in 2020. This calls for a balanced development of renewable heat, green gas and renewable electricity. The previous cabinet focused on renewable heat as a cost-effective technique. If the new cabinet is […]

  • BIMCO: UK Seaborne Coal Import Down by 64 Pct

    10 October 2016

    The main exporters of thermal coal for coal-fired power plants to the United Kingdom have experienced a heavy decline in seaborne cargo volumes in 2016 as a result of the UK close to doubling its Carbon Price Floor (CPF), according to BIMCO. Russia, Colombia and the United States have been the top coal exporters to […]

  • USA: Bishop, Schumer Announce New Coastal Protection Plan

    30 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced a new plan that will allow the construction of storm protection dunes at Smith Point County Park and Robert Moses State Park to begin in early 2014, as originally scheduled. Schumer and Bishop brokered a deal between federal and state agencies that will break the […]

  • USCG Detains Car Carrier in Tacoma

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard detained the 1994-built car carrier Pegasus Highway in the Port of Tacoma on Wednesday, September 9, citing safety deficiencies as the cause. A Port State Control exam team from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound conducted a routine Port State and International Ship and Port Facility Security exam aboard the 590-foot, Panamanian-flagged Ro/Ro. While aboard, […]

  • USCG Detains Car Carrier in Tacoma

    11 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Coast Guard detained the 1994-built car carrier Pegasus Highway in the Port of Tacoma on Wednesday, September 9, citing safety deficiencies as the cause. A Port State Control exam team from Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound conducted a routine Port State and International Ship and Port Facility Security exam aboard the 590-foot, Panamanian-flagged Ro/Ro. While aboard, […]

  • In Case of Emergency

    21 March 2014

    Late at night on 29 December 2013 a fire broke out in a cabin aboard MS King Seaways, a DFDS Seaways ferry traveling from Newcastle, United Kingdom, to IJmuiden, the Netherlands. RAF helicopters were scrambled to the vessel along with two lifeboats to transport four crew members and two passengers who required immediate attention. A […]

  • LNG Tanker Explorer Encounters Problems Off India

    19 June 2014
    Vessels

    Exmar Shipmanagement, managers of the LNG carrier Explorer, reported that the vessel experienced a fire in the engine room on June 14 about 240 west of Mumbai, India. “The fire was promptly extinguished by the ship’s crew using portable fire extinguishers. No casualties or injuries occurred, but the ship’s propulsion was lost,” Exmar said in […]

  • AES sells Jordan, UK assets to focus on LNG

    23 April 2019

    The US energy company AES Corporation, has entered into agreements to sell its interests in six power plants in Jordan and the United Kingdom for total proceeds of $211 million, as it shifts focus to LNG.

  • Sri Lanka to charge New Diamond captain, seek $1.9M in damages

    18 September 2020
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Vessels

    The captain of the fire-stricken very large crude carrier New Diamond is facing negligence and pollution charges in Sri Lanka. The Panamanian-flagged supertanker is estimated to have spilled around 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel following the engine room fire two weeks ago. “There is sufficient evidence to prosecute the skipper under the marine pollution act […]

  • DSC awarded contract by Port of New Orleans

    11 July 2008

    New Vessels – July 11, 2008 Dredging Supply Company (DSC) has signed a deal with the Port of New Orleans after being awarded a contract for the acquisition of a new 24in cutter suction dredge. Attending the contract signing ceremony were: Bill Wetta, Bob Wetta, Charles Johnson, Damon Gonzales, Gary Hamilton, and Mike Carlson (all […]

  • SOCAR Kills Burning Well after Two Months (Azerbaijan)

    25 October 2013

    Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company SOCAR, has extinguished the burning well at the Bulla Deniz field in the Caspian sea. The well, which was on fire since August 17, was killed Wednesday, October 23, SOCAR said in a statement. Halliburton’s subsidiary, Boots & Coots, a pressure control company, helped with the operation. To remind, the fire broke out […]

  • Explosion Rocks Chemical Tanker off Hong Kong, One Dead

    8 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    One seafarer lost his life, three crew missing following an explosion on a chemical tanker off Hong Kong.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Cargotec Receives Order for Siwertell Ship Unloader from India

    3 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    Cargotec has received an order for a Siwertell ship unloader type ST790-D from the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO), Paradeep Unit. The enclosed screw-type unloader will be used to discharge rock phosphate and sulphur at a rated capacity of 1,800 t/h. “IFFCO wanted a totally enclosed system for both environmental and safety reasons,” said […]