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  • Readers’ Picks of the Week (October 10 – 14, 2016)

    16 October 2016
    Business & Finance

    Drewry: Container Carriers Still Face High Risk of Failure Privately-owned container carriers could risk losing shippers’ trust if they do not provide any data on their level of indebtedness and balance sheet strength, according to shipping consultancy Drewry… Read More Trafigura Sells Five Tanker Newbuilds Commodity trading company Trafigura Group has entered into a sale […]

  • Crown Estate: Dogger Bank to Attract Economic Growth and Jobs

    18 February 2015
    Human Capital

    The Crown Estate yesterday welcomed the first consent order for offshore wind energy at Dogger Bank in the North Sea, the largest renewable energy development ever to receive planning consent in the UK and the largest offshore wind project to receive consent globally. Head of Offshore Wind for The Crown Estate, Huub den Rooijen said […]

  • Australia: Arrow Celebrates Anniversary of CSG Powered Station

    4 July 2012

    Arrow Energy is celebrating the first anniversary of its ownership of Dalby’s gas-fired Braemar 2 power station with record reliability and no injuries in the last 12 months. Arrow Energy CEO Andrew Faulkner said Braemar 2, Queensland’s second-largest gas-fired power station, had provided 365 days of uninterrupted electricity to about three per cent of Queensland […]

  • USCG: Gas Pipeline Ruptures Off Marsh Island, Two Injured

    27 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The U.S. Coast Guard has responded to a report of a natural gas pipeline fire, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Marsh Island. Namely, Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a notification yesterday at 8:30 p.m. that a natural gas pipeline had ruptured and was on fire. Sector New Orleans directed the launch […]

  • Thanckes Jetty Project Includes Dredging

    25 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    VolkerStevin recently won a £43 million contract to build new jetty at Thanckes Oil Fuel Depot which provides fueling facilities for the Royal Navy at Devonport Naval Base. The project will deliver a new jetty with fuel loading and fire fighting facilities; the fire fighting facilities within the depot will also be replaced. According to VolkerStevin, the […]

  • UKMTO: Piracy Threat Still Looming in Bab al Mandeb

    7 July 2014

    Over the previous week pirates were lurking on ships sailing in the immediate vicinity of the Bab al Mandeb a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia and along the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor, the United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO) said in the latest report.   The majority […]

  • Gazprom, DONG in Gas Power Plant Talks (Russia)

    12 March 2012

    Following the Memorandum of Intent signed in April, Gazprom and DONG Energy held negotiations and agreed on the action plan to further develop cooperation between the two companies in Northwestern Europe at the existing gas-fired power plants as well as at a brand new and modern combined cycle power plant to be constructed. The action plan stipulates development of the design documents and the financial feasibility study […]

  • Petrobras restarts production from P-20 platform

    8 April 2014

    Brazilian oil company Petrobras has informed that the platform P-20, installed in the Marlim field in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil, resumed oil production on Monday. The production had been closed due to the damage caused by a fire that occurred on the platform on December 26 last year. The fire had damaged the platform’s chemicals […]

  • Ship Burned Before Sinking, Passengers Say

    4 February 2006

    Survivors of a ferry sinking that has claimed hundreds of lives say there was a fire aboard the aging vessel.

  • Teekay’s Randgrid FSO reaches Gina Krog field

    20 September 2017

    Teekay’s recently converted floating storage and offloading vessel Randgrid has reached its final offshore location – the Gina Krog field in the North Sea. The vessel, to be used at the Statoil-operated field, had left the yard in Mejarvik last Thursday, and, according to a Teekay spokesperson, has now safely arrived at the oil and […]

  • Explosion onboard Japanese Tanker Shoko Maru

    29 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Four crew members have been seriously injured, and one is still missing after the Japanese tanker Shoko Maru exploded off the country’s south-west coast near Himeji port earlier this morning. Prior to the explosion, the 998-tonne tanker belonging to Syoho Shipping, unloaded the crude and was stationary close to Hyogo prefecture’s coast when the fire […]

  • Consilium Receives a 8 MSEK Order in UAE

    5 August 2010

    Consilium in Middle East has received a fire safety order of 8 MSEK for an extension of a tank terminal in Port of Fujairah. The tank terminal is owned by Emarat, a government owned petroleum distributor in UAE. Consilium Automation in Middle East is awarded the contract from the engineering company Tata Projects. This project […]

  • Russian Navy Commissions into Service Pella-Built Tug

    11 February 2014

    The tugboat of project 90600 “RB-401”, building No 939 was put into operation within the Russian Navy on February, 1, 2014, Pella Shipyard informed. The official solemn flag-raising ceremony took place in Kaliningrad. The tugboat is intended for towing and berthing operations in harbor, roadsteads and coastal areas which comply with R3 navigation area, refloating […]

  • USA: County Calls for Brookhaven Dredging

    16 September 2013

    Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine, on September 13 requested that the County of Suffolk dredge more than a dozen locations across the Town during the 2013/2014 dredging season. Sites for dredge spoils for each location, which are either owned by the Town or where an agreement is in place to accept spoils, was also included in […]

  • Safety authority finds flaws at Statoil’s Valemon (Norway)

    8 January 2016

    While conducting an audit of the Valemon platform in the North Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority found shortcomings in the platform’s security. The audit of the Statoil-operated Valemon platform was conducted from October 26 to November 5, 2015, and included checks of barrier management, technical safety and electrical installations. PSA Norway identified four non-conformities related to electrical […]

  • Tugboat RB-395 Heads for the Baltic Fleet Navy, Russia

    19 December 2012

    State Commission has signed the Acceptance and Delivery Act for the tugboat “RB-395” (project 90600, building No 934). Before the end of this year the ferry trip of the vessel to Baltiysk will be carried out and the tugboat will be put into operation within Baltic Fleet Navy. The tugboat is intended for towing and […]

  • Unified Command Responds to Dredger Accident at Port O’Connor, TX

    19 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The U.S. Coast Guard has just released the latest update on the gas pipeline accident near Port O’Connor, TX, saying that a Unified Command consisting of Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office and RLB Contracting Inc., continues to carry out all necessary activities in response to this incident. Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received […]

  • Update 3: No Large Oil Spill from Sanchi that Continues Burning off China

    10 January 2018

    The fears of a major oil spill from Sanchi abate as around 1 pct of the condensate was found on the water surface.

  • Yemen: Navy Destroys Boat Approaching Balhaf LNG Port

    22 November 2013

    Yemen’s navy fired upon and destroyed a suspicious boat that was approaching the Balhaf LNG export terminal on Wednesday, according to local media reports. A booby-trapped boat approached from international waters, and passed security lines into Yemeni territorial waters in the area surrounding the LNG port. Yemen’s navy moved immediately towards the boat and opened […]

  • Zhenjiang Hands Over ‘Crest Athena 1’ to Singapore FEG Energy

    20 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    On 19th of February 2014, Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard handed over the third 78m Offshore Standby Support Vessel named Crest Athena 1, to Singapore FEG Energy Co., Ltd. With a passenger volume of 200 people and a rescue capacity of 300 people, it features a total of 5320kw capacity and a DP-2 positioning system. It is […]

  • EIA: power generation capacity additions below par

    16 July 2014

    The Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014) Reference case projects 351 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating additions between 2013 and 2040, in both the electric power sector and end-use sectors, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report. Projected future capacity additions are well below the average annual levels observed in recent history, and […]

  • Government Orders DSME to Stop Work on LPG Carriers

    12 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Following the most recent fatal incident at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) Okpo yard, the Korean Government has ordered the yard to halt work on the five liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers currently under construction, Yonhap news agency reports. The fire that killed one and injured seven workers on Tuesday, seems to be the final straw in […]

  • Govt Lifts Ban on VLGC Construction at DSME

    25 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Korean government has lifted the ban on construction of the five liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) Okpo yard, imposed earlier this month following another fatality at the yard. The decision was announced by the regional unit of the ministry of employment and labour, according to the Yonhap news agency. The […]

  • Black Elk Recovers Body of Crew Member. One Still Missing (USA)

    19 November 2012

    Black Elk has recovered a body of one of the two workers who went missing after an explosion hit the company’s platform located at West Delta 32 Block, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico approximately 17 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. “We recovered one of the missing workers and the U.S. Coast Guard transported the […]

  • Aker Kvaerner contract for green energy production

    26 November 2006

    Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a contract for the supply of a large biofuel-fired boiler plant to